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Europe's 1788 moment | David Marquand

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:12:49 GMT

It is hard to think of a more telling example of the British media's propensity to get the wrong end of the stick than the hue and cry over the two latest additions to top-level EU officialdom.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Atlanta Schola Cantorum brings ancient church music to life

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:09:50 GMT

For most people alive during Europe's Renaissance, a reawakening of the (perceived) values of classical antiquity, the world was an extremely wretched and dangerous place -- filth, famine, pestilence, rats and death everywhere.
Source: AccessAtlanta

U.S., Europe Respond Angrily to Iran's Threat to Build More Nuclear Plants

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:08:26 GMT

On Monday, an Iranian nuclear official said the country's decision to build additional uranium-enrichment sites comes in response to last week's censure of the Islamic republic by the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, for...
Source: Newshour With Jim Lehrer

A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:04:29 GMT

Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance...
Source: The New York Times

c. 2009 Religion News Service

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:04:04 GMT

Irish abuse probe prompts calls for Vatican apology VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican is facing calls to apologize - as yet unanswered - for the large-scale child abuse by Irish Catholic priests detailed in a damning government report.
Source: Ventura County Star

Towering prejudice

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:00:38 GMT

In a move that has reverberated across Europe, 57 per cent of Swiss voters decided through a referendum to block the construction of a minaret in Langenthal, just north of the countrys capital, Berne.
Source: Indian Express

Areva hopes nuclear option won't go into meltdown

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:56:54 GMT

Chain reaction: problems have dogged the construction of Europe's first nuclear plant since Chernobyl Unqualified welders and badly-mixed concrete are just two among 1,700 "quality deviations" that have dogged the construction of Europe's first...
Source: The Telegraph

Decision day for Australian carbon laws

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:55:52 GMT

CANBERRA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should know on Tuesday if he has secured his plan for the most comprehensive carbon trade scheme outside of Europe, with the fate of the laws hanging on an opposition leadership vote.
Source: Reuters Alert Net

Quoted in 'Dundee clubs agree in principal to ground share'

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:46:37 GMT

said in Tribalfootball.com:

Throughout Europe big clubs have done it - the obvious one being the two Milan clubs - and it hasn't done them any harm, so I couldn't see the two clubs being against it.

Quoted in 'Tunisian Jews Mark 60 Years Since Oslo Plane Tragedy'

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:03:57 GMT

said in Arutz Sheva:

They only spoke about the Tehran children [Holocaust refugees who had fled Europe into Russia and reached Israel through Tehran] but this is a completely different event.

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Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:02:03 GMT

EU Commissioner for Agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel (L) welcomes Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki on October 19, 2009 ahead of an Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting at the EU headquarters in Luxembourg.

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Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:24:24 GMT

Peter Scherrer, German head of the European metalworkers federation (FEM), addresses thousands of Opel workers and supporters, including hundreds from Germany, protesting in front of the Opel car factory in Antwerp on September 23, 2009 against plans by...

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