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- Reform leader wary of Egypt's future
- Electric car-sharing program cleaning up Paris
- Woman fights for right to have assisted suicide
- Pandas flown to Scotland
- Vladimir Putin's political party losing support in election
- Iran: Unmanned U.S. plane shot down
- Italy approves austerity efforts
- Euro will be put to the test this week
| Reform leader wary of Egypt's future Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST CAIRO -- Egypt's top reformist leader said Sunday the liberal youth behind the country's uprising have been "decimated" in parliamentary elections dominated by Islamists and expressed concern about the rise of hard-line religious elements advocatin ... |
| Electric car-sharing program cleaning up Paris Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST PARIS -- Paris, in its latest bid to be an innovator of the City of Tomorrow, is launching an electric car-sharing program to cut air and noise pollution on the city's medieval cobblestone streets and beyond. Autolib', a project built on the succe ... |
| Woman fights for right to have assisted suicide Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Confined to a wheelchair, in constant pain and unable to bathe without help, a 63-year-old grandmother has forced the issue of assisted suicide into Canadian courts for the third time in two decades. Gloria Taylor ha ... |
| Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST LONDON -- Two giant pandas from China landed Sunday in Scotland, where they will become the first to live in Britain in nearly two decades.The 8-year-old pair, named Tian Tian and Yang Guang -- or Sweetie and Sunshine -- were welcomed by bagpipe play ... |
| Vladimir Putin's political party losing support in election Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST MOSCOW -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party was struggling to reach 50 percent in Russia's parliamentary election, polls and official results showed Sunday, suggesting Russians were wearying of the man who has dominated Russian politics for mor ... |
| Iran: Unmanned U.S. plane shot down Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's armed forces have shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane that violated Iranian airspace along the country's eastern border, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday.An unidentified military official quoted in the report warn ... |
| Italy approves austerity efforts Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST MILAN -- Premier Mario Monti said Sunday his government of technocrats has approved a package of austerity and growth measures worth $40.53 billion to "reawaken" the Italian economy and help save the euro common currency from collapse. The measure ... |
| Euro will be put to the test this week Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:04 PM PST BRUSSELS -- Europe's government-debt crisis, which has dragged on for more than two years, is entering a pivotal week, as leaders across the continent converge to prevent a collapse of the euro and a global financial panic that could result. Expec ... |
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