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| Compiled on January 09, 2013, 06:44 PM CET |
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The Waiting Room by the Sea
Times Are A-Changin' in Havana A new law easing travel restrictions goes into effect on the Caribbean island of Cuba on Jan. 14. With tentative reforms, the Castro regime is preparing for the 55th anniversary of the the country's revolution. A sea change is already on the horizon in the capital Havana. |
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Opposition in Berlin
Cyprus Bailout Could Fail in German Parliament The urgently needed bailout of the Cypriot banking industry is in danger of being vetoed by the German parliament. The opposition Social Democrats say they are leaning towards voting no, according to a media report. With Chancellor Merkel unable to rely on her own majority, that could be bad news for Cyprus and for the euro. |
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Euro-Crisis Hope
Confidence in European Banks Is Returning There is cause for hope in Southern Europe. New numbers indicate that trust is returning to banks located in countries that have been hit hardest by the euro crisis, a trend triggered by ECB head Mario Draghi. But even as discrepencies in the Continent's Target2 payment system shrink, danger still lurks. |
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Arrogant, Withdrawn, Overstretched
Berlin Mayor's Time Has Come - And Gone Klaus Wowereit wanted Berlin's new international airport to be his political legacy. Instead it could cost him his job. Even if he isn't in imminent danger, his days as the city's mayor are likely numbered. |
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Artificial Resuscitation
Pumping New Life into Brackish Baltic Sea Polluted and virtually cut off from the restorative flow of other bodies of water, Europe's Baltic Sea is slowly running out of oxygen. But one scientist hopes to artificially oxygenate it with pumps. Critics worry there could be unforeseen consequences. |
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Sex Abuse Scandal
German Catholic Church Cancels Inquiry An independent inquiry into sex abuse in the German Catholic Church was supposed to restore faith in the embattled institution. But now the Church has called it off, citing a breakdown in trust with the researchers. The country's justice minister has demanded that an inquiry continue, though. |
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Lower Saxony Election Looms
Half-Scot McAllister Battles to Stay in Office With Braveheart-style bagpipe music, David McAllister, the half-Scottish governor of Lower Saxony, is fighting to stay in office in an election later this month. A loss wouldn't bode well for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who could suffer the same fate in the September election. |
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'Mama Come!'
Parrot with Child's Voice Sparks Police Operation Police forced their way into an apartment in Germany after hearing what they described as a "child-like voice" calling for its mother and father. Instead of an abandoned toddler, they found a cheerful and very talkative parrot. |
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Skeletons in the Closet
Daughter of Klaus Kinski Alleges Abuse Pola Kinski, daughter of late German actor Klaus Kinski, has accused her legendary father of years of sexual abuse in an interview scheduled to run in a prominent newsweekly. "He simply took what he wanted," she claims. |
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Polish Authorities Launch Probe
Anger at Painting Made of Holocaust Victim Ash A Swedish artist has caused outrage by claiming to have created a painting using ash he took from an oven in Majdanek concentration camp. Polish prosecutors said on Tuesday they had opened an investigation. The painting, displayed in a Swedish art gallery in December, is no longer on show following protests from the Jewish community. |
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Picture This
Snowed In |
