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Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou

Eurozone delays €12bn Greek aid programme

Eurozone finance ministers on Monday have failed to agree a critical €12bn worth of aid payments to Greece, instead vowing to wait until the country has proven itself capable of passing the austerity measures that have cause widespread protests and violence on the streets of Athens

Anger as Fukushima talks to be held behind closed doors

Anger as Fukushima talks to be held in private
The United Nation's nuclear agency's decision to hold talks over the Fukushima nuclear meltdown behind closed doors has prompted anger and frustration over both the United Nations and the Japanese Governments reaction to the worst nuclear disaster in twenty five years
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Cyber Security: China at risk from hacker's cyber attacks

A report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has revealed that Software systems used by China to run its weapons, utilities and chemical plants systems suffer from an inherent bug, leaving them vulnerable to hacker's cyber attacks.
Tamils ethnic civilians wait to go to a camp for internally displaced people

Channel 4 "Sri Lanka Killing Fields": Is the US war on terror responsible?

"We strongly condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, committed by whomever, wherever and for whatever purposes, as it constitutes one of one of the most serious threat to international peace and security", this UN resolution was adopted in 2005 and set international background in which the Sri Lankan civil war was fought.
Nuclear power under the spotlight in the US after Nuclear meltdown

Fukushima 100 days on: US in the spotlight

As Japan attempts to bury its head in the sand over the full scale of the Fukushima nuclear power meltdown there is growing concerns across the world that the United States is not taking the problem seriously enough.
A Sri Lankan policeman stands guard beside the bed of K.P. Mohan, an ethnic Tamil Journalist, in the National Hospital in Colombo

Channel 4 "Sri Lanka Killing Fields": a documentary with a lot of ramifications?

Even before the diffusion of its documentary "Killing Fields of Sri Lanka', Channel 4 insisted the film would shed a new light in terms of ground-breaking evidence regarding the incidents related to the end of the war in Sri Lanka in 2009. However two days after the documentary first aired, it appears that the film has had different impact on different factions of the public.
Six children were hospitalised on Thursday in the northern French town of Lille after being infected with the rare strain of E.Coli bacteria recently traced to Germany.

E.coli 2011 outbreak: New cases emerge in France

Six children were hospitalised on Thursday in the northern French town of Lille after being infected with the rare strain of E.Coli bacteria recently traced to Germany, health authorities said.
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LulzSec cyber attack on U.S. CIA possible hoax

Since claiming responsibility for a successful cyber attack on the U.S. CIA's website the hacker collective LulzSec has since tweeted that not all comments made on its Twitter page are official statements for the group, leading to speculation about the authenticity of its most recent claim.
A Libyan rebel fighter uses a walkie talkie at their position in Misrata"s western front line,

Are the Libyan rebels turning against Nato?

In the latest development of the conflict in Libya, it has been reported that rebels pushed deeper into government-held territory south of the capital on Wednesday. Their advance came as good news for the Alliance who suffered a series of political and diplomatic setbacks last week when both the US Defence secretary and the UK Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope attacked its military capabilities and operational skills.
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Coalition Government braced for summer of Strikes

Over 750,000 civil servants are set for strike action in support of the teacher's strike which will cause disruption to a million school children. The strike planned by teachers which now has the full support of civil servants is planned for Thursday June 30, with the dispute over public sector pensions.