Topic: Western Europe
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany stepped up security on its railways on Thursday, dispatching police reinforcements to halt a campaign of arson attacks after officials found a firebomb on tracks near Berlin.It was the 16th explosive device detected in four days.Noone has been ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief who is back home in France with his career in tatters after a sex-assault scandal, is likely to take a role in the left's 2012 election campaign, a political ally said on Monday.Pierre ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney takes his fund-raising machine to London next month, holding a reception aimed at wealthy American expatriates working at banks and hedge funds.A handful of London fund-raisers were held during the 2008 presidential election cycle, ...
Most Americans have heard of the original Boston Tea Party, but how many know exactly what it was and what it signified, other than a vague idea that some colonists threw a load of tea overboard in Boston harbor? Such prominent and ...
A letter purporting to be from the mayor of the French capital of Paris was published in The New York Times on Monday, December 22, 2008. NY Times published fake letter from Paris mayor (December 22, 2008) "We French have been consistently ...
Britannica provides coverage of " Social Democratic Party" in the following Year in Review articles. Aspects of the topic Social Democratic Party are discussed in the following places at Britannica. From the 1950s into the early 21st century, Switzerland's government was formed ...
Aspects of the topic Republican Party are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Criticism of the restoration monarchy came from the Catalan and Basque regionalists, a revived Republican Party, the proletarian parties, the army, the more forward-looking of the Spanish politicians, ...
The Alien and Sedition Acts and the USA PATRIOT Act were passed as a result of different sociopolitical catalysts, yet have many things in common - namely the erosion of civil liberties and increased government power in the name of national security. ...
With less than one week to go before the midterm elections, the big question is this: What will Republicans do if they win a House majority and make gains in the Senate to the point where the Obama agenda is stalled?. But ...
As we moved into the new century, the conservatives gained control of the White House and the Congress. These economic policies and their trade policies have created huge challenges that an ever shrinking middle class is finding harder and harder to overcome. ...
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Britain Tuition Tangle
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Germany Partial Solar Eclipse
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Australia Flooding
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NS Hooligans Western Europe
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Western Europe ISS
Credit: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. "The ...2011-10-28
