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Support at record high for Greece's radical-left party ONE WEEK into the campaign for the second Greek general election, to be held on June 17th, a poll shows the country’s main anti-bailout leftist party has overtaken its principal promemorandum conservative rival.
Dutch jobless figures at six-year high NEW FIGURES showing 24,000 people lost their jobs in the Netherlands during April alone have added fuel to the debate here over austerity versus growth – and prompted the opposition Labour Party to propose a left-wing coalition with the Socialists after the September election.
Plan for low-tax euro zone areas with German-style privatisation GERMANY IS to propose special low-tax economic zones in crisis-hit euro zone countries to promote growth.
As Cannes winds down, 'Twilight' team get their teeth into selling new projects AS THE Cannes Film Festival wound into its closing weekend, the celebrities continued to flock to La Croisette. Last night Robert Pattinson, star of the Twilight vampire series, trod the red carpet for the premiere of David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis.

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Obama scoffs at Romney's spending jibe CAMPAIGNING AT the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines on Thursday night, US president Barack Obama delivered his sharpest attack yet against his presumed Republican opponent in the November election.
Board recommends dismissal of SA police commissioner THE CREDIBILITY of South Africa’s police leadership was dealt a significant new blow yesterday by reports that a board of inquiry investigating the actions of suspended police commissioner Gen Bheki Cele has recommended his dismissal.
Egyptians polarised by 'referendum on the revolution' EGYPT’S MUSLIM Brotherhood yesterday declared its candidate in the country’s first free presidential vote, Mohamed Mursi, would fight a run-off next month with former air-force chief Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister of deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.
Mubarak premier in final two for Egypt's presidency WHEN HE joined the race for Egypt’s presidency just five weeks ago, Mohamed Mursi (60) was mocked as the Muslim Brotherhood’s uncharismatic “spare tyre” after its first-choice candidate was disqualified.
Weapons reported to be en route to Syria from Russia A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described yesterday as credible.
'Irish Times' journalist commended for article Arthur Beesley, The Irish Times’s Brussels Correspondent, has been commended in this year’s Reporting Europe awards, run jointly by Thomson Reuters, the news agency, and the University Association for Contemporary European Studies, the UK-based academic association for contemporary European studies.
Suspected suicide bomber kills police officer A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a car outside a police station in the central Turkish province of Kayseri yesterday, killing himself and a police officer and wounding some 20 others.
Tough talk follows language proposals Ukraine’s ruling party has triggered protests with a move to upgrade the official role of the Russian language – a sensitive issue in the former Soviet republic and one which opponents say will effectively split the country.
'We want peace': 16 years since beheading of Trappist monks Conspiracy theories still grasp at the truth about the murder of seven Trappist monks at the height of Algeria’s civil war, writes MARY BOLAND in Tibhirine
Republican Party too 'wacko' to still be considered mainstream AMERICA: Two prominent political scientists say the Grand Old Party has become more loyal to party than to country and is to blame for dysfunction in the US political system
Anti-protest law in Quebec backfires as locals rally to cause An attempt to curtail protests against hikes in college fees has raised hackles, writes LORRAINE MALLINDER in Quebec
A banker, a butler and a businessman: the strange goings on in Vatican City The reported arrest of the pope’s butler comes amid a week of drama at the Vatican, writes PADDY AGNEW in Rome

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