Photostream : Valerie Trierweiler, France’s new ‘first lady’

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President Lee Myung-bak reshuffles 2 top posts at S. Korea’s spy agency

  SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) — President Lee Myung-bak reshuffled two top posts at South Korea’s main intelligence agency Monday in a shake-up that also affected five other vice-ministerial posts, his spokesman said. Nam Joo-hong, a former well-known security scholar who has so far served as ambassador to Canada, was named the first deputy chief […]

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Israel’s Netanyahu says will push for Sept 4 vote

  JERUSALEM  — Israel’s parliament said on Monday it could dissolve its current session later the same day, paving the way for an early vote thatPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to hold on September 4. “We are proposing September 4,” Netanyahu told a morning meeting of his cabinet, a day after formally announcing he would seek to […]

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Short party for Hollande after French election win

  PARIS (Reuters) - Francois Hollande’s honeymoon after his election as France’s first centre-left president in 17 years was cut short on Monday by jittery financial markets eager for signals on his policies and how hard he will push back against German-ledausterity. The Socialist beat conservative Nicolas Sarkozy with 51.7 percent of Sunday’s runoff vote after a bruising campaign dominated […]

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