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Europe's reality check
WASHINGTON -- The euro crisis is back. Actually, it never left. But there was an extended period, beginning last summer, when Europe's political, business and media elites convinced themselves the worst had passed. The European Central Bank (ECB) --...Tags: Interior Policy, Government Debt, Money and Monetary Policy, European Central Bank, Italy
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Our new mayor is learning it's a tough war of words out there
timr@herald-mail.comWar! What is it good for? Well, urban renewal, perhaps. That was the unfortunate take of Hagerstown Mayor David Gysberts last week, when he quipped that if the city had been lucky enough to have been bombed back into the Stone Age, we could start over...Tags: War of 1812, The Herald-Mail, Germany
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Unmaking Europe
"We have made Italy, now we must make Italians," goes the old saying. Today we have made the euro, and the crisis of the euro is unmaking Europeans. People who felt enthusiastically European 10 years ago are reverting to angry national stereotypes....
Tags: University of Oxford, European Parliament, Italy, Market and Exchange, Elections
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'Massive' wave of Russian state inspections of NGOs continues
Russian officials pressed ahead Wednesday with a sweeping wave of inspections on nonprofit foundations, human rights groups and other NGOs that has troubled activists in Russia and abroad. In the latest round, state inspectors showed up at the offices...
Tags: Amnesty International, David Kramer, Vladimir Putin, Same-Sex Marriage, Government
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The Cyprus confusion
WASHINGTON -- Logically, what happens in Cyprus should stay in Cyprus. With a population of just over 1 million and an economy that's a mere 0.2 percent of the 17-nation eurozone, the country seems too small to matter on the world stage. Yet, that's where...Tags: Brookings Institution, Economic Indicator, Banking, Financial Markets, Finance
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Pope Francis takes office
VATICAN CITY -- Before crowned heads, government leaders and masses of the faithful, Pope Francis formally took office Tuesday as head of the Roman Catholic Church in a ceremony replete with pageantry and symbols from ancient Christendom. In a homily,...Tags: Francis I, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Christian Orthodoxy, Christianity, Benedict XVI
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Pope Francis urges protection of nature, weak
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis urged princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass on Tuesday to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest, mapping out a clear focus of his priorities as...
Tags: Francis I, Poverty, Papal Conclave (2013), Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Judaism
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Pope Francis chooses ring, coat of arms and motto
ROME – Pope Francis, the first pontiff from the New World, has decided to remember his roots by choosing a personal coat of arms that recalls his career as a cleric in Argentina, the Vatican said Monday. Francis opted to keep the same coat of arms...
Tags: Francis I, Pakistan, Vatican City, Heads of State, Government
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Cyprus shuts banks through Thursday amid fears of widening crisis
ATHENS — Amid renewed fears of a widening economic crisis in Europe, Cyprus on Monday ordered its banks shut through Thursday, postponing for a second time in two days a crucial parliamentary debate on whether bank depositors on the Mediterranean...
Tags: Big 3 Auto Bailout (2008), European Central Bank, Vladimir Putin, Germany, Finance
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New Year's resolutions I'd like to hear
Arianna HuffingtonHappy New Year! May your 2013 be filled with love, laughter, passion and 365 full nights of sleep. Through the years, I've discovered something about New Year's resolutions: While it's not so easy to keep them, it's very easy to make them for other...Tags: Barack Obama, Todd Akin, National Rifle Association of America, Clint Eastwood, Randy Travis
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German education minister replaced after plagiarism scandal
Germany replaced its embattled education minister Thursday, choosing a mathematician to succeed Annette Schavan, who was accused of plagiarizing parts of her doctoral thesis. Schavan announced her resignation days after a University of Dusseldorf...
Tags: Oscar Pistorius, Germany
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Obama to halve U.S. force in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON -- In his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Obama will announce plans to withdraw half the U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan over the next year, a steep reduction that reflects his determination to end the American role in the 11-...
Tags: Barack Obama, Armed Forces, Wars and Interventions, Hamid Karzai, U.S. Department of Defense
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