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  Versailles - personal universe of Louis XIV

  09.05.2012 Society » Anomalous phenomena

  It is difficult to find a person who has not heard the word "Versailles." In Latin versare means "to plow". To know this word, one does not need to be a fan of the beautiful architecture - just think of the Treaty of Versailles. First and foremost, it is associated with the name of Louis XIV.
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  9th of May - Victory Day

  09.05.2012 Opinion » Columnists

  The 9th of May 1945 -- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had roared into Berlin, defeating the worst scourge the world had ever seen up until that time. Fascism was defeated.
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  The United States in the dock - Part 1

  09.05.2012 World » Americas

  May 7 to May 12 - the The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal is hearing the accusations against the United States of America for acts committed on detainees in Iraq. The accusations are unutterably shocking and are serious enough to merit hearing under as war crimes, and as such are covered by jus cogens and customary international law.
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  The forgotten children of Mali

  09.05.2012 Hotspots and Incidents » Conflicts

  A triple disaster faces the children of Mali - grave violations of human and child rights, instability caused by armed insurrection and a drought/famine cycle. According to UNICEF, the long-promised disaster has already arrived. The FUKUS/terrorist attack against Libya exacerbated the situation further.
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  Sukhoi Superjet disappears above Indonesian mountains

  09.05.2012 Hotspots and Incidents

  Russia's Sukhoi SuperJet, a state-of-the-art civil airliner, went off the radars during a demonstration flight in Jakarta
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  Awards for criminals how special

  09.05.2012 Society » Real life stories

  Humanitarian Awards are surely taking on a whole new meaning. The end of April brought the obscenity of the announcement that Madeleine Albright, a woman prepared to sacrifice children by proxy (i) was to be awarded America’s highest honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for her role as a long time champion of democracy and human rights all...
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  1 in 15 premature babies die

  09.05.2012 Health

  According to the World Health Organization, fifteen million babies are born premature and every year, one million of them die. Worse: despite the advances we are making in technology, the situation is becoming worse. Pre-term death is the second most common cause of death for children under five.
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  Iran denounces Arab sabotage in Syria

  08.05.2012 History, traditions

  On Sunday (6th), an aide to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accused some Arab countries of trying to sabotage the peace plan designed for Syria by Kofi Annan, by their sending mercenaries and weapons...
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  Complicating the peopling theory

  08.05.2012 Science » Planet Earth

  Humankind was born in Africa and some fifty to sixty thousand years ago walked up from his birthplace around Lake Victoria and then moved en masse across the Middle East to Asia and then all flocked westwards to Europe, so the story goes. Or used to go. Nature Magazine claims that the deeper we dig, the more complicated it gets.
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  March of the Millions as a carefully planned provocation

  08.05.2012 Opinion » Columnists

  At least 27 victims, mass riots, beaten journalists, criminal investigation into the use of force against police officers - these are the results of another "nonviolent" protest organized by non-systemic opposition in the Russian capital. "March of the Millions" that the opposition has been preparing since March, ended with a massacre where police...
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  Putin: "I consider it to be my life mission to serve my motherland"

  08.05.2012 Russia » Politics

  Assuming the President's office, Vladimir Putin announced that he understands his responsibility to the country and promised to justify the trust of the citizens. "I think the meaning of my life is my duty to serve the motherland, our people, whose support has inspired and helped to solve the most difficult and complex tasks", Putin said.
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  Moldova canceled

  08.05.2012 World » Europe

  The Moldovan nation does not exist. This was the agreement made by the presidents of Moldova and Romania Nicholas Timofti and Traian Basescu. Meanwhile, the census showed that the majority of Moldovans do not consider themselves Romanians. The historical background to their union as one state is not greater than that for their separate existence.
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  The third crisis of capitalism

  08.05.2012 Business » Finance

  The system is a cat of seven breaths. In the last century, two major crises were faced. The first, in the early twentieth century, in the early days of imperialism, the passing of laissez-faire (economic liberalism) the concentration of capital by the monopolies.
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  Juventus helped by Inter

  08.05.2012 Sport » Soccer

  Inter Milan beat arch rival AC Milan giving the Italian title to Juventus. City and United go to the wire in the English Premiership and in France it is too close to call still with two games to go to the end of the season. Elsewhere, the champions are already known. Sir Alex Ferguson is counting on ex-player Mark Hughes to put one over the club...
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  Palestine, numbers of an accursed occupation

  07.05.2012 Hotspots and Incidents » Crimes

  The occupation and blockade of Palestinian territories by Israel, in addition to its inherent predatory nature, reveals the perversion of a practice that nullifies the development and self-government of a people, causing millions of losses.
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  The Hypocrisy of Republicanism

  07.05.2012 Opinion » Columnists

  It is said that Republics are the ultimate will of the populations, a government of the people, for the people and by the people. This is, after all the call of all the would be political dons, in any and every monarchy from the 1910s to today
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  Euro Elections: We don't want your European Union

  07.05.2012 World » Europe

  The election results in France and Greece leave a crystal clear message to those grey elements controlling the European Union, a message from the people who they never bothered to consult as they imposed a failed super-state in an arrogant top-down approach. The Merkozy space is dead. R.I.P.
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  European Elections: Who forgot Serbia?

  07.05.2012 World » Europe

  Turn on a western TV outlet, open a western newspaper. Two elections: France and Greece. What about Serbia, you know, that "forgotten" nation in the Balkans that shed the blood of hundreds of thousands of its sons and daughters fighting against imperialism and fascism in two world wars? And what about the serious allegations of irregularities?
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  African Conversations II - Plot to assassinate Goodluck Jonathan?

  06.05.2012 Opinion » Columnists

  Muammar al-Qathafi was taken out because his plans for Africa were starting to cost western imperialist powers too much in lost revenue and an independent Africa interested nobody among those nations which had grown rich by pillaging resources and destroying societies, before these were freed by the Soviet Union.
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  New research indicates Hugo Chavez favored

  06.05.2012 Society » Real life stories

  The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has a 32 percentage point advantage over the conservative candidate heading toward elections next October in Zulia state, according to the results of a survey released on Thursday (3rd) in the Venezuelan capital.