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The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2009 - By Joshua Keating | Foreign PolicyThe Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2009 A few ways the world changed while you weren’t looking. Sometimes it's the page A14 stories -- the ones that never see the light of cable news or take a second life in the blogosphere -- that tell you the most about what happened during any given year. ...
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India, Russia sign deals on nuclear energy, defence - Yahoo! NewsIndia and Russia signed deals on nuclear energy and arms sales on Monday as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held talks in the Kremlin with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "We welcome Russia's participation in the broadening of our nuclear energy programme," Singh told reporters after ...
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Doku Umarov: The Man Behind Russia's Deadly Train Blast - TIMEWhen Illyas Musayev heard that the Neva Express train had been bombed on Nov. 27, killing 26 well-to-do Russians and injuring about 100 others, the Chechen separatist was incredulous. He didn't want to believe that his former comrade in arms Doku Umarov had kept the pledge he made in August to ...
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Russia shifts stance on Iran, Ahmadinejad defiant - Yahoo! NewsRussia will join any consensus on more sanctions against Iran, a senior Russian diplomatic source said on Tuesday after Tehran declared it would expand nuclear activity in defiance of a U.N. rebuke. It was a thinly veiled Russian warning to Iran of waning patience with its failure to allay ...
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Russian patriarch seeks "powerful reply" to train bomb - Yahoo! NewsThe head of Russia's Orthodox Church Sunday called on authorities to give a "powerful reply" to the people behind a train bombing that killed 25 people, as police probed whether Islamist rebels were involved. A blast derailed a high-speed Russian train Friday night on the main line between ...
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60 Years Later, Everyone's Still Loving the AK-47 | Like It or Not | Fast Company"Does this AK make my ass look big? As if!" Designed for soldiers wearing gloves in arctic cold, 60 years later the AK-47 is the brand of choice in deserts, the tropics, and urban jungles, too. It's one of the best tools ever manufactured, a masterpiece of the Industrial Age. My nephew, just ...
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BBC World poll finds overwhelming dissatisfaction with capitalismA new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism. In the global poll for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries said that it was working well. More than 29,000 people in 27 countries were questioned. Most thought regulation and ...
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Britain fluffed the German question. Now Britain is Europe's great puzzle | Timothy Garton Ash | Comment is free | guardian.co.ukHistory comes back to haunt us. Just over 20 years ago, the then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher told Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: "Britain and western Europe are not interested in the unification of Germany. The words written in the Nato communique may sound different, but ...
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Asian Innovation: China, India and KoreaThe rise of China and India will remake the innovation landscape. US and European pre-eminence in science-based innovation can no longer be taken for granted. Nor can the knowledge jobs that have depended upon it. Global supply chains have transformed how we make products. Our savings depend ...
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The end of the dollar spells the rise of a new order - The IndependentLeading article: The end of the dollar spells the rise of a new order Last autumn's global financial crisis set off an economic earthquake. And we are still feeling the tremors. The latest sign of the ground shifting beneath our feet is our report today of plans by Gulf states, China, Russia, ...
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