The elections that drove Nicolas Sarkozy out of power in France and left Greece scrambling to build a coalition government pose a financial threat to the United States that could undermine President Barack Obama’s efforts to cast himself as the agent of a U.S. economic revival.
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Europe’s bad mood: Does Obama need to worry?
BEIJING (Reuters) – The secret flight by blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng from smothering home detention to what appears to be U.S. protection conjures images of the last Chinese dissident to seek shelter with the U.S. mission in China – astrophysicist Fang Lizhi. China and the United States have kept silent on Chen’s whereabouts, but a U.S.-based rights group has told Reuters that he is under U.S. protection and high-level talks regarding his status are under way. If Chen is holed up with the United States – possibly at its Beijing embassy – it could open a wound in U.S. …
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Chen’s flight triggers U.S.-China asylum memories
BEIJING (Reuters) – Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is under U.S. protection in Beijing after an audacious escape from 19 months under house arrest, a U.S.-based group said on Saturday, in a drama that threatens to ignite new tensions between the two governments. The United States has not given any public confirmation of reports that Chen, who slipped away from under the noses of guards and bristling surveillance equipment around his village home in Shandong province, fled into the U.S. embassy. …
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Escaped China activist in U.S. protection: rights group
A Mexican national said he has been barred from entering the United States to bury his 10-year-old son, a U.S. citizen who died Tuesday in a house fire in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed three other people.
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TUNIS (Reuters) – The United States has pledged $100 million to the Tunisian government to help it meet its debt obligations for the year, Tunisian state media said on Thursday. The pledge was given by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a telephone conversation with the Tunisian prime minister on Wednesday as part of Washington’s efforts to support the transition to democracy after last year’s revolution ousted veteran dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. “The U.S. administration… …
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North Korea has invited UN inspectors to monitor a nuclear deal with the United States, insisting the pact remains in force despite its shock announcement of an upcoming satellite launch.
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North Korea invites IAEA, says US deal still in force
The United States says it won’t let the recent progress in its nuclear diplomacy with North Korea affect its close relations with key ally South Korea.
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AP – The United States proposed an international coalition to support Syria’s opposition Sunday after Russia and China blocked a U.N. attempt to end nearly 11 months of bloodshed, raising fears that violence will escalate. Rebel soldiers said force was now the only way to oust President Bashar Assad, while the regime vowed to press its military crackdown.
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Reuters – Novartis AG is slashing nearly 2,000 jobs in the United States ahead of the patent loss of its top-selling blood pressure drug Diovan, the Swiss drugmaker said on Friday, just months after it said would scale back operations in Switzerland.
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AP – An Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday, in a case adding to the accelerating tension between the United States and Iran.
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Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case
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