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My final dispatch after 38 years. Copy ends

They had rounded up all the journalists they could find in Cairo, bussed us out on the road to Suez and dropped us at Kilometre 101. Ahead was the tent erected for the sombre ceremony. Blocking our way were unsmiling Finnish...

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Liberal Peace is dead? Not so fast,

Beneath the burden of inefficiencies, insurgencies and corruption, and unable to hold its ground when liberal institutions collide with the local context, liberal peace as statebuilding seems to be seeking the exit door in...

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Thales Deutschland to Equip All German Navy Supply Ships

WILHELMSHAVEN / KIEL / STUTTGART --- The German Navy trusts Thales’s expertise and technology when it comes to developing and outfitting its largest ships. Thales has been selected to be the main contractor on the project that...

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U.N. hails Obama but says rich promises fall short

OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations welcomed on Wednesday a plan by U.S. President Barack Obama to attend a U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen next month and urged rich nations to promise deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

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Obama presence vital at climate talks, UN official says

Bonn, Germany - US President Barack Obama's presence at next month's climate summit in the Danish capital Copenhagen is vital, a UN official said Wednesday in the German city of Bonn. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN...

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Climate change help for the poor 'has not materialised'

BBC News Climate change help for the poor 'has not materialised' BBC News Large sums promised to developing countries to help them tackle climate change cannot be accounted for, a BBC investigation has found. Rich countries...

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A German Robin Hood: Bank Worker Sentenced for Shifting Funds From Rich to Poor

A bank worker who shifted money from the accounts of well-off customers to help cover the overdrafts of poorer ones has been sentenced in Germany. The media are describing the woman, who took no money for herself and is now...

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IVG Immobilien Beats Slump for Now

By WILLIAM BOSTON | Special to the WSJ BONN—Gerhard Niesslein has succeeded in bringing IVG Immobilien AG back from the brink since he was brought in last November to revive one of Europe's largest listed real-estate investors....

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German teenager jailed for foiled bid to massacre schoolmates

From correspondents in Europe, 12:02 AM IST A 16-year-old girl who attempted to kill teachers and fellow pupils at her German co-ed high school was sent to youth prison Tuesday for five years. She was foiled when another girl...

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How Much Water Does the Ocean Have?

Researchers observed short-term fluctuations in the spatial distribution of the ocean water masses, and the results are important for improved climate models. (Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres press release)

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