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BBC NEWS | Europe | Protests as Hungary PM sworn in - 0 views

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Hungary Economy

shared by Argos Media on 15 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Several thousand people have been protesting in the Hungarian capital Budapest, over the appointment of a new prime minister, Gordon Bajnai.
  • Mr Bajnai replaces Ferenc Gyurcsany, who announced his decision to resign in March, saying he considered himself a hindrance to further reforms. Mr Bajnai, a non-aligned figure who had been serving as the economy minister, was sworn in by parliament late on Tuesday.
  • the anti-government demonstrators in Budapest are demanding that parliament be dissolved and an early election called.
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  • Hungary has been badly hit by the global economic crisis, and needed a $25.1bn (£16.9bn) IMF-led rescue package last November to avoid collapse. Analysts say Hungary is heavily dependent on the loan to finance its massive state debt.
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Key nations 'agree N Korea draft' - 0 views

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North Korea UN

shared by Argos Media on 11 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Officials said the Security Council's five permanent members and Japan had agreed on the text of a presidential statement on the 5 April launch.
  • The statement is considered a weaker response than the resolution initially sought by Japan and the US. China and Russia had rejected that idea, calling on the international community to act with restraint.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may claim Iranian nuclear advance | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

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Iran US Mahmoud Ahmadinejad David Albright Nuclear Proliferation

shared by Argos Media on 09 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Ahmadinejad said his country would welcome talks with Obama if the US president proved "honest" in extending a hand to Iran.
  • Reports suggest he will claim Iran has perfected techniques for the manufacture of uranium fuel.
  • But David Albright, a former UN weapons inspector, said if that was all Ahmadinejad claimed, there would be relief in the US administration, which fears Iran could begin to use new centrifuges at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant, bringing it closer to a bomb-making capability.
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Kosovo civilian abuses revealed - 0 views

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Kosovo Kosovo Liberation Army Hashim Thaci War Crimes

shared by Argos Media on 09 Apr 09 - Cached
  • The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) abducted civilians in Kosovo who were then mistreated and in some cases killed, a BBC investigation has found.
  • Sources told the BBC that Kosovo Serbs, ethnic Albanians and gypsies were among an estimated 2,000 who went missing.
  • Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, the former KLA political director, has rejected the allegations.
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  • The BBC News investigation also studies claims that some of those held in Albania were killed for their organs, and that physical evidence gathered by UN investigators in Albania was destroyed by the International War Crimes Tribunal.
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Somali mortars miss US politician - 0 views

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Somalia US al-Shabaab

shared by Argos Media on 13 Apr 09 - Cached
  • A US congressman has had a narrow escape on a visit to Mogadishu after Somali insurgents fired mortars towards his plane as it was about to take off. Airport officials told the BBC one mortar had landed near the airport as Donald Payne's plane was due to fly and five others after his plane departed.
  • The al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the mortar attack. "We carried out mortar attacks against the enemy of Allah who arrived to spread democracy in Somalia," a spokesman for the group named as Sheikh Husein Ali Fidow was quoted as saying by AFP news agency. "This government is welcoming America, which is our prime enemy and we will never stop attacking them."
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Obama sets out plan for nuclear-free world | Politics | Reuters - 0 views

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Obama US Nuclear Proliferation Nuclear Weapons

shared by Argos Media on 06 Apr 09 - Cached
  • President Barack Obama set out his vision for ridding the world of nuclear arms on Sunday, declaring the United States ready to lead steps by all states with atomic weapons to reduce their arsenals.
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Barak welcomes IDF decision to end Gaza misconduct probe - Haaretz - Israel News - 0 views

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Israel War Crimes Ehud Barak

shared by Argos Media on 01 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Barak continued. "I'm happy these as the results [of the investigation], and that once again our claim that the IDF is the most moral army in the world ? top commanders and low-ranking soldiers alike ? has proved truthful."
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BBC NEWS | Business | Obama hails 'historic' G20 summit - 0 views

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G20 Economy

shared by Argos Media on 03 Apr 09 - Cached
  • They pledged a total of $1.1 trillion (£681bn) in funding to tackle the crisis, including $750bn to the International Monetary Fund, $250bn to boost global trade and $100bn for international development banks to lend to the poorest countries.
  • Leaders also agreed to introduce tougher financial regulations and sanctions against secretive tax havens.
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From Mania to Mistrust: Europe's Obama Euphoria Wanes - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - Interna... - 0 views

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US Europe Obama

shared by Argos Media on 31 Mar 09 - Cached
  • it's plain to see that Obama's team has yet to become accustomed to dealing with Europe. And a worry voiced during the campaign has returned: that Obama -- who spent his childhood years in Indonesia and who has shown a lot of interest in Africa -- knows little about Europe.
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Luke Harding: Russia goes back to the USSR | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

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Russia Putin Post-Soviet

shared by Argos Media on 16 Apr 09 - Cached
  • The Soviet Union had a global ideology: the triumph of socialism. According to Kryshtanovskaya, Putinist Russian doesn't have an ideology as such - beyond what she dubs a "chauvinistic nationalism"."The Soviet Union had global ambitions. It believed in socialism and social justice. Now the main ideological idea is nationalism and anti-Americanism. There are no positive ideas any more, only negative ones," Kryshtanovskaya says
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