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Thursday, 30 June 2011

Poland set to take over EU presidency

Poland is to take over the rotating presidency of the EU for the first time since it joined the bloc in 2004.

Its priorities for the six-month term include building relations with the EU's eastern and southern neighbours, and encouraging economic growth.
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Chavez tells of surgery to remove cancerous tumour

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has revealed he has had surgery to remove a cancerous tumour, in his first speech since flying to Cuba for treatment.

Speculation about his health had been rife since he left Venezuela three weeks ago for what officials said was an operation on a pelvic abscess.
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Short take: Corrupt Illinois politics

Rod Blagojevich is only the latest certifiably crooked statewide politician to seduce Illinoisans into inattention, apathy, resignation that ... this is how it is here. Our state's collective oblivion is a soul-crushing legacy of public corruption, and Blagojevich gladly exploited it.

Case against Strauss-Kahn near collapse: report

The case against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was charged with sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper, is near collapse, the New York Times reported on Thursday.

The paper quoted what it said were two well-placed law enforcement officials as saying that although forensic evidence showed there had been a sexual encounter between the French politician and the maid, the accuser had repeatedly lied and prosecutors did not believe much about what she had told them.
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011

Korea talks fail to resolve resort row, says official

South Korean officials failed to persuade North Korea to row back on its decision to strip a South Korean company of its contract to run tours to a joint resort in the secretive state and to seize its assets, an official said on Wednesday.

The dispute over the Mount Kumgang resort on the isolated North's east coast is the latest of litany of issues underscoring the depth of soured relations on the peninsula.
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French banks to pay price in U.S. for Greek deal

French banks were charged higher interest rates on short-term U.S. borrowing than their European rivals after they cemented their links to risky Greek debt in a pact to roll over their bond holdings when they mature.
However, the higher rates in the U.S. commercial paper market might be a lower price in the long run than if they had not participated in efforts to keep Greece solvent, analysts said.

"The French banks will feel some pressure from the rollover, but in the long term they will avoid additional disruption," said Sean Simko, senior portfolio manager at SEI Investments Co in Oaks, Pennsylvania, which manages $179 billion in assets.
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Mr. President, Bring All of Our Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq Home, Now

One June 24, 2011, President Barack Obama told our nation of his plans for withdrawing U.S. military forces from Afghanistan. He told us, "We will be able to remove 10,000 of our troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, and we will bring home a total of 33,000 by next summer." He went on to say, concerning the approximately 70,000 troops remaining that "by 2014, this process of transition [from combat to support] will be complete and the Afghan people will be responsible for their own security."

Corruption probe informant Solomon Dwek back behind bars after lying to the FBI

Solomon Dwek finally told one too many lies.
There had been the $400 million Ponzi scheme. The $25 million bogus check at a bank drive-through window. And the lies upon lies told to those he ensnared in the biggest federal corruption sting in New Jersey history.

But Tuesday, a federal judge in Newark threw the book at the disgraced real estate investor for lying to the FBI — about a rental car that had not been returned on time. Read more....................

Murder, Corruption and Katrina—Cops on Trial in the Big Easy

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police officers allegedly fired on two black families on the Danziger Bridge. Two people died. Now the officers are on trial in a case that exposes widespread corruption in the city's justice system.

Witness testimony began Monday in a trial that has already shocked and polarized the City of New Orleans and brought urgent calls for reform of the city's entire criminal-justice system. 
Saturday, 25 June 2011

English Reject Help Greek Economy

The British government said it would not spend a dime of taxpayer money to help the Greek economy was helter-skelter. This will be delivered the Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron, in the presence of EU leaders this weekend.
It is delivered Cameron, quoted from the pages of The Telegraph, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. He said that Britain would not participate with other European countries in providing bailouts (bailout) to Greece.
The plan, eurozone countries would provide a bailout to Greece by 12 billion euros or about Rp148 billion to tackle inflation in Greece. Britain is not part of the 17 eurozone countries has no say in Greek bailout.
However, the British Finance Minister Mark Hoban told Cameron that Britain will inevitably participate in providing some funds for Greece. This is because English is one of the largest shareholder in the IMF, which incidentally is one of the pioneers of aid for Greece.
"I do not think we need to intervene. It will not and I will fight for the British position in the European Council this week," said Cameron.
Basically, European finance ministers refused to provide a bailout if Greece can not afford to implement austerity measures amounting to 28 billion euros (Rp345 trillion).
The Greek government is currently fighting for the ratification of austerity measures by the parliament. If enacted, it means that taxes will be raised and the budget cuts imposed. (Vivanews.com)
 
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