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Editorial The Washington Examiner 11/13/2014 It was Tuesday evening in the United States when President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced their nations had come to a historic agreement on climate change that supposedly represented a “breakthrough.” The United States pledged to reduce its carbon emissions to 25 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. […] November 14th, 2014 | Tags: "climate change", Carbon emissions, Paris, Xi Jinping | Category: Barack Obama, China, Economy, Environment, France | Comments are closed
Don Surber 11/9/2014 Tom Piper is a British theater designer who has captured the heart and soul of his nation this fall with a simple, eloquent and beautiful display of patriotism that combines pacifism with nationalism. The exhibit arrived at just the right moment for a nation ravaged by self-doubts on many fronts. […] November 9th, 2014 | Tags: "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red", Paul Cummins, poppies, Queen Elizabeth II, Remembrance Day, Tom Piper, Tower of London | Category: France, Germany, Great Britain, History, World War I | Comments are closed
Reuters 8/27/2014 IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been put under formal investigation by French magistrates for alleged negligence in a political fraud affair dating from 2008 when she was finance minister. Lagarde was questioned by magistrates in Paris this week for a fourth time under her existing status as a witness in the long-running saga […] August 27th, 2014 | Tags: Bernard Tapie, Christine Lagarde, cronyism, fraud, International Monetary Fund (IMF), President Nicholas Sarkozy | Category: Banking and finance, corruption, France, Politics | Comments are closed
AP via CBS News 8/10/2014 BAGHDAD – Kurdish forces retook two towns from Sunni militants Sunday a senior Kurdish military official said. The seizure of the towns was one of their first victories after weeks of retreating from the growing militant threat in Iraq. The Kurds were helped by a fourth round of American airstrikes […] August 10th, 2014 | Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Gaza, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Kurds, Nouri al-Maliki, Peshmerga, weapons, Yazidi | Category: France, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Military | Comments are closed
100 Years After World War I Began, a Digital World Remembers Zach Noble The Blaze 8/3/2014 A century ago Sunday, Germany declared war on France, setting in motion the bloody series of events that would leave millions dead across Europe and would set the stage for an even larger, costlier global conflict — World War […] August 3rd, 2014 | Tags: British Empire, Ottoman Empire, Twitter | Category: Europe, France, Great Britain, History, Russia, Social networking websites, technology, United States, World War I | Comments are closed
Thousands gather in Paris to demonstrate against Gaza operation, hurling stones at house of worship AFP and Times of Israel staff 7/13/2014 PARIS — Clashes erupted in Paris on Sunday as thousands of people protested against Israel and in support of residents in the Gaza Strip, where a six-day conflict has left 166 Palestinians dead. […] July 13th, 2014 | Tags: anti-semitism, Benjamin Netanyahu, electricity, Gaza, Hamas, Iron Dome, Paris, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, synagogues | Category: Canada, France, Islam, Israel, Palestinians | Comments are closed
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