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Asia-pacific - Vietnam accuses China of sinking fishing boat

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Europe - Spain’s King Juan Carlos to abdicate

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France - The French president’s private life: Responding to the English press
Good point, and you could emphasise the fact that M Hollande is not married, argue that marriage is a right-wing institution and that the English Press should keep its values to itself. However lets say that the UK political establishment are afraid of France's refusal (until yesterday) to impose austerity measures, so they will find any excuse to try to undermine M. Hollande. The sad thing about his love life is what becomes of his girlfriends' careers.
from Josephina, 136 days 5 hours 31 minutes ago

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Middle east - Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE recall envoys to Qatar
qatar a defination of hate in the world
from assouma, 88 days 20 hours 17 minutes ago

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France - MP finds France ‘without hope’ after walking tour of country
Admirable, more politicians should do something similar. I think his findings would be echoed by the same exercise in most European countries, especially in those countries whose politicians have completely destroyed life for huge amounts of people. Neither France, the UK or Germany or other northern EU countries realise the grief of the countries suffering massive unemployment and civil unrest. Politicians on their own are bad enough, politicians and the European Union are a complete and criminal disaster.
from Ray Veysey, 170 days 18 hours 39 minutes ago

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France24 - Live
Great player, great news channel. It is quite annoying though that i have to relaunch the website every 15 minutes while all other websites are perfectly working on my computer.
from Roman Moschny, 149 days 15 hours ago

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Americas - Cannabis advocates eye end to prohibition as Colorado trade booms
Prohibitionists think we should lose our freedom family & fortune because of pot; and feel we should be OK with them thinking that. Prohibitionists have no heroes (witness Ted Cruz) just liars, fibbers and stupid's. Our side has thousands of heroes. Marc Emery is my favorite Prohibitionists are condescending judgementalists - every perceived personality flaw they see; is somehow related to pot. Prohibitionists are terrified at the possibility that Pot is a (performance / life) enhancing herb. They do like the falsehood that Pot dumbs peoples senses Prohibitionists will be lumped in with the temperance league (of alcohol prohibition) when it comes to smarts. Only they will be considered even stupider. The temperance league were right on a few points. Like violence and physical damage Prohibitionists are sure they know more about Cannabis than someone that has spent their whole life with the Marijuana plant. Prohibitionists especially the intelligentsia can't imagine they were lied to and have been wrong all their lives Prohibitionists talk about stupid stoners. You won't find anything dumber than a Drunk. Except maybe Marijuana Prohibitionists. Prohibitionists think that the Legalization crowd are the ones that are lying. Prohibitionists are afraid of legalization because when they don't toke up with their friends; they will know that they were talking behind their backs and were Judgmental Condescendings Prohibitionists say there are downsides to everything. "NAME THEM" I bet you can't name any. Prohibitionists switch the topic to other drugs when they don't have a leg to stand on when discussing pot. Prohibitionists think everyone that doesn't agree with them is trolling . . .
from Doug Pederson, 127 days 3 hours 24 minutes ago

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Europe - Pope asks forgiveness for child abuse by priests
Jesus Christ taught that if someone realises that they have sinned against another, they must go immediately to ask for forgiveness, or the sin gets held against you when you die. Pedophiles rarely apologise, so there is no need to forgive them. Those that destroy the faith of a child have millstones around their necks, so that they fall to Hell when they die. If the Pope is to be seen to be really against pedophilia, and this is not just another publicity stunt, then he must give all Priests the infallible personality test that the US Democratic Party uses on it's perspective candidates. We have the technology to root out the weeds.
from RedRoseAndy, 50 days 20 hours 53 minutes ago

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Europe - EU leaders meet following eurosceptic parliamentary gains
So... to counter the political blowback from his party's relentless and decades-long and politically expedient demonstration of the EU, Prime Minister David Cameron of the UK's Conservative party has teamed up Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary's autocratic and far-right Fidesz party, to confront the inevitable surge in populist support for The EU's extremist, far-right parties. There is a degree of conservative reliability in the old saw of "fight fire, with fire", I suppose. However, I am more inclined to think that President Hollande has it about right, over his support for the "more Europe", of Jean-Claude Juncker.
from Charles Smyth, 5 days 22 hours 4 minutes ago

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France - Far right mayors may insist on pork in school cafeterias
Pandering to religious dogma may well be inadvisable, but amazingly enough there is wholly secular reasons why somebody may not want to eat pork: because they are VEGETARIAN (for health, ecological, or animal welfare concerns). Simple enough to offer a vegetarian option whenever ANY meat is served, and doing so assuages the concerns of MORE people than just offering an alternate meat for religious dogma reasons. (There are of course religious sects such as Buddhism which are vegetarian, which have as much value as large "mass" religions) Even meat and pork eaters very well may like to eat the vegetarian option because it is more healthy, or they prefer it to the particular preparation of pork meat that day. Eating pork is not mutually exclusive with eating vegetables after all. Designing an "alternate menu option" that can serve as large a minority as possible is the most reasonable approach to make it cost effective to do so, so expanding the relevant minority to include observant Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and Vegetarians or even Vegans reaches the broadest agglomeration of sectors. And given the health benefits of vegetarianism or certainly "eating more and more varied vegetables", it is in the interests of the state to promote ALL students to eat more vegetables, which is achieved by offering that option. It is reasonable enough to offer a "vegetarian day" with wholly vegetarian options for all students, and the following day can serve pork and have a vegetarian option that potentially makes use of "left overs" from the previous day (cooking more to the extent needed). Supporting vegetable producers also happens to support local agriculture and not in the form of industrial meat production which has serious ecological problems with waste disposal.
from kana, 57 days 18 hours 18 minutes ago

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Americas - Ex-Pentagon chief Gates criticises Obama in new memoir
Talk about 'politics'!! Reality Gates, and you know it as you were a big part of it as were the press now giving top reporting to the rovian revisionist history pushed: How about the rovian revisionist history on the reports about Jessica Dawn Lynch in Iraq then Patrick Daniel "Pat" Tillman in Afghanistan, politics son politics!! Or this:
from Jim Starowicz, 143 days 14 hours 47 minutes ago

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France - Hollande vows to create jobs in New Year's address
@Omnibus There isn't any mechanism, never mind key mechanisms. Small and medium sized businesses and enterprises and lots of them will be the key but M. Hollande and his charlatans are out to lunch, lost the plot and haven't a clue.
from HAMDAOUI, 152 days 14 hours 16 minutes ago

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Asia-pacific - Vietnam marks historic victory against French colonialism
The Vietnamese lost 2.5 to 3 million people during the U.S. phase of their war for self determination. Those who attempted to colonize them lost some troops but nothing compared to the sacrifice of these intrepid people. Balanced reporting would advocate for reparations from the French and the Americans for what they perpetrated on them.
from Pikku83, 26 days 19 hours 42 minutes ago

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Sport - French council upholds Hollande’s 'millionaires' tax’
Once again, M. Hollande reveals his willingness to abandon common sense, fairness and economic principle in favor of adherence to exhausted Socialist rhetoric and populist demagoguery. The design and rate of the tax are patently absurd. Just watch: more large businesses will downsize or relocate out of France, new investment will dwindle to a trickle, unemployment will continue to rise, and entrepreneurs and capital will flee the country at increasing speed. In response, Hollande and his cohorts will put it all down to a lack of patriotism, rather than admit any culpability of their own. How sad for France, to be governed by men and women who are too blind to put aside their leftist biases for the good of the country. They lack even the intellectual acuity it would take for them to be properly embarrassed by their own repeated failures.
from Omnibus, 154 days 12 hours 44 minutes ago

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