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France, With the Continent's Highest Birthrate, Holds On to Its Social Welfare Program for New Moms
ALBI, France -- Stéphanie Guiraud-Chaumeil was still in law school when her son Paul was born 14 years ago. Later came Valentine, a daughter now 10. Then Mathieu, 9, and finally little Louise, 7.
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Juror Defies Russian Court's Attempts to Close Murder Trial to Media
MOSCOW, Nov. 20 -- The trial of three men accused of helping to organize the murder of one of Russia's most prominent investigative reporters, Anna Politkovskaya, took a surprise turn Thursday as a juror publicly challenged the court's decision to hold the proceedings behind closed doors.
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Report Faults U.S., Saying Its International Aid Isn't Always Apolitical
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 19 -- The United States, the world's largest international aid donor, is among the worst at promoting the independence, impartiality and neutrality of humanitarian aid deliveries to needy populations, according to a survey by a Madrid-based nonprofit group that monitors donors'...
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Poland to Await Obama Decision on Placing Missile Defense System in Europe
Poland's foreign minister said yesterday that his country will wait for the Obama administration to make up its mind on basing missile defense interceptors in his country and will not lobby to have the project proceed.
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Report: U.S. Uses Aid to Promote Non-Humanitarian Goals
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 19--The United States, the world's largest international aid donor, is among the worst at promoting the independence, impartiality and neutrality of humanitarian aid deliveries to needy populations, according to a survey by a Madrid-based nonprofit group that monitors donors'...
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British Business Group Issues Warning on Economy; Brown Criticizes Comments by Conservative Osborne
LONDON, Nov. 17 -- Britain's leading business organization issued a grim warning on the U.K. economy Monday as the country's political leaders bickered about how frankly they should discuss their economic worries in public.
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Pardon Request a Test of Russian President's Character -- and Clout
MOSCOW -- It began with Svetlana Bakhmina's handwritten letters from prison -- thoughtful, melancholy notes to an old middle school classmate.
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World Leaders Agree to Seek Major Reform
World leaders holding an emergency meeting to combat the economic crisis agreed yesterday to a far-reaching action plan that, over the next 4 1/2 months, would begin to reshape international financial institutions and reform worldwide regulatory and accounting rules.
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Britain Debates a Child's Right to Choose Her Own Fate
LONDON, Nov. 13 -- Hannah Jones needs a heart transplant. But after nine years of battling leukemia and heart disease, she has had enough of hospitals, operations, drugs and constant pain. So she has opted to skip the surgery and die at home in the company of her family.
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Bush Warns of Aggressive Economic Regulation
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 -- After presiding over some of the most dramatic market interventions in U.S. history over the past two months, President Bush came to Wall Street on Thursday to urge world leaders not to venture too far down a path of government interference in capitalist economies.
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