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France: New Wave of Strikes as Sarkozy Remains Defiant (Time.com)

October 19th, 2010

Time.com - As France’s controversial pension reform nears legislative approval, demonstrators unleash a sixth wave of protests

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Kremlin fires defiant Moscow mayor after 18 years (AP)

September 28th, 2010

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov reacts during the Unesco's early childhood care conference in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Yuri Luzhkov, who has been Moscow's mayor for the last 18 years, is back from his vacation and said he wouldn't resign despite a widely reported public power struggle with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Russia’s president fired defiant Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov on Tuesday, ousting the man who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for his wife’s chokehold…

Defiant Israel says activists prepared to fight (AP)

June 6th, 2010

Members of a Palestinian family wait for their coupons to receive the monthly food supplies from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA), at a warehouse in the Shatie refugee camp, in Gaza City, Sunday June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Israel’s prime minister claimed Sunday that the Turkish activists who battled Israeli naval commandos in a deadly clash last week prepared for the fight ahead of time, before…

Israel remains defiant, seizes Gaza-bound aid ship (AP)

June 5th, 2010

In this image made from video released by the Israeli Defense Force on Saturday, June 5, 2010, Israeli army and navy soldiers on boats are seen approaching the Gaza-bound 1,200-ton Rachel Corrie aid ship. Israeli forces seized the Gaza-bound aid vessel swiftly and without meeting resistance, preventing it from breaking a naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory days after a similar effort turned bloody. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Forces) AP HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE VIDEO PROVIDED BY THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE. NO SALES.AP - A defiant Israel enforced its 3-year-old blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday, with naval commandos swiftly commandeering a Gaza-bound aid vessel carrying an Irish Nobel laureate and other…

Iran’s president defiant in face of new sanctions (AP)

May 4th, 2010

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles after being greeted by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (unseen) at United Nations Headquarters in New York May 3, 2010. Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday his country could withstand sanctions and the pressure of the United States and its allies over Tehran's nuclear program. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonAP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that his country won’t be deterred by the threat of new U.N. economic sanctions over its nuclear program.


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