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France’s influential economist Thomas Piketty, author of “Capital in the 21st Century”, on Thursday refused to accept the country’s highest award, the Legion d’honneur,...
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Belarussian strongman Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday sacked his prime minister and several other top officials as the ex-Soviet state reels from the effects of...
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Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta’s revamped government sailed through a vote of confidence in parliament Monday on a promise of continued economic growth and...
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Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta reshuffled his leftist government Sunday, a month after his surprise defeat in presidential elections. Ponta told reporters that the...
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Thousands of business owners took to the streets in French cities Monday in a rare protest against hefty taxes, charges and stifling regulations they...
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Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will keep his post to lead a new coalition government after a deal between the country’s pro-Western parties, President...
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Georgia on Wednesday plunged into political crisis after its youthful prime minister sacked his hugely popular defence minister and the foreign minister resigned in...
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The head of Libya’s self-declared government, Omar al-Hassi, has called in an interview with AFP for new elections to pull the violence-wracked nation back...
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Rome’s mayor refused Friday to back down in an increasingly heated dispute over his registering gay marriages celebrated abroad, in defiance of an order...
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Belgium’s new interior minister sparked uproar Monday after saying that Flemish collaborators with the Nazi occupiers in World War II “had their reasons”, touching...