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EUROPE-DEVELOPMENT
The "Indignados" Still Have Wind in Their Sails
By Cléo Fatoorehchi
AIX-EN-PROVENCE - Months of protest across the European Union, sparked by ‘indignant’ youth demanding an end to the brand of free market capitalism that has blighted the continent with an unemployment epidemic, finally bore fruit on Jan. 30 when Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, proposed an ambitious jobs scheme.
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EUROPE-DEVELOPMENT
Mapping Out the EU’s Harmful Projects
By Bari Bates
BRUSSELS - Dozens of European Union-funded projects across several countries are ‘environmentally or socially unsound’, according to a map created by a joint effort between CEE Bankwatch Network and Friends of the Earth Europe.
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Finnish Contest No More Between Right and Left
Analysis by Linus Atarah
HELSINKI - In an uncharacteristically lively election campaign in this nation of five million people, Finns head for the polls in a second round of voting Sunday to elect a new president.
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RUSSIA
Putin Remains Leading Candidate in Presidential Elections
By Kester Kenn Klomegah
MOSCOW - Election season in Russia promises to be stormy, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin emerges as the leading candidate in the presidential race scheduled for March 4 and unresolved issues of voting fraud and voter manipulation spark massive protests amongst opposition groups.
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Pakistan Denies "Intimate" Taliban Links
By Correspondents*
DOHA, Qatar - Pakistan has rejected as "frivolous" a leaked NATO report which claims that the country's security services are helping the Taliban, and suggesting that the group believes it is poised to regain power.
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BALKANS-SOCIETY
First Abused, Then Imprisoned
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - The women languishing in Serbia’s Pozarevac Penal Correctional Institution are victims twice over: survivors of decades of domestic violence, they have been imprisoned for killing their partners and often spend up to 15 years in jail.
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PORTUGAL
Going Underground in Hard Times
By Mario Queiroz
LISBON - The underground economy in Portugal is booming thanks to the steep increases in taxation and prices demanded by a "troika" of international creditors to address the country's economic crisis.
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ICELAND
Recovering Dubiously From the Crash
Analysis by Lowana Veal
REYKJAVIK - Three years ago, thousands of Icelanders were standing outside Iceland’s parliament building chanting "incompetent government" in an attempt to bring down the conservative government that had been seen as responsible for the collapse of the country’s banking system.
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DEVELOPMENT
Uniting Against Extreme Poverty
By A.D.McKenzie
PARIS - When Louisamène Joseph Alionat unexpectedly began singing in a packed hall at the United Nations cultural agency here this week, it was an attempt to give encouragement to her peers engaged in the uphill battle of trying to end extreme poverty.
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Falklands/Malvinas, From Rhetoric to Pressure
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Although the latest rhetoric seems to signal a hardening of the historical sovereignty dispute between Argentina and Britain over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, some experts are sceptical and say nothing will change in essence.
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UZBEKISTAN
Population Endures Shortages Amid Plenty
By Deirdre Tynan*
BISHKEK - Just a week ago at a cabinet meeting, Uzbek leader Islam Karimov hailed the achievements of the Uzbek economic model, which is basically a retrofitted command system. But Karimov clearly hasn't gotten out of the capital much lately. For many citizens in Central Asia's most populous state, electricity cuts and gas shortages have become a defining feature of this winter.
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The Logic and Limits of Nonviolent Conflict
Analysis by Karina Böckmann
BERLIN - Today marks the one-year anniversary of the uprisings in Egypt that unseated an authoritarian regime and rekindled the spark of nonviolent resistance around the world.
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EU-IRAN
New Sanctions Aimed at Averting Wider Conflict
By Barbara Slavin
WASHINGTON - European countries are imposing unprecedented sanctions against Iran in part in hopes of preventing an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear installations that could further destabilise the Middle East and wreak havoc on the global economy.
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SWITZERLAND
Resistance Rises to Asylum Seekers
By Ray Smith
LUCERNE, Switzerland - Switzerland saw a 45 percent increase in asylum requests compared in 2011 to the year before. The country struggles to accommodate the new asylum seekers while efforts to put up new centres face fierce resistance by local people.
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SPAIN
Trials of Judge Garzón Called Scandalous by Rights Groups
By Tito Drago
MADRID - Another trial opened Tuesday with Spain's best-known judge, Baltasar Garzón, in the dock for attempting to investigate crimes against humanity committed during the 36-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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GLOBAL SUPPORT PEAKS FOR NO NUKES
By Jonathan Frerichs

WHAT ARE THE CONCERNS IN DAVOS?
By Johan Galtung

CLIMATE EMERGENCY
By Ignacio Ramonet

THE UNITED STATES AND THE DEFEAT OF VICTORY
By Joaquin Roy

IS CHINA STILL A DEVELOPING COUNTRY?
By Martin Khor

SHED LIGHT ON THE SHADOW ECONOMY
By Raymond Baker

EUROPE ON THE BRINK
By Mario Soares

EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY AND THE FINANCIAL COUP D'ETAT
By Ignacio Ramonet

COOPERATION AND SOLIDARITY KEY TO MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
By Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser

FACING PEAK OIL AND PEAK GAS: IN SEARCH OF THE LEAST EVIL
By Risto Isomaki

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