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...Spain's newly re-elected socialist prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, spoke of unity, claiming that "Spaniards have spoken with clarity, and they have decided to open a new era - a new era without antagonism, an era that excludes confrontation, an era that looks for agreement when it comes to affairs of State." But both the campaign that preceded the election and the results themselves suggest much the opposite - that Spain will become even more polarized between right and left than it already...
...occupation of the West Bank (which Israel did in Gaza in 2005) is not going to change the magnitude of the threat to be dealt with, neither on the Sunni nor on the Shiite front. This conflict has for a long time been about more than just reaching an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. For the Sunni Wahabis and the Shiite revolutionaries, bringing about the end of the Palestinian occupation will not suffice. They will not be satisfied until they see the end of Israel itself...
...parliament, which has been plagued by squabbling between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP), which controls the lower house, and the DPJ, whose members won a surprise majority in the upper house in elections last July. With Fukui's departure looming, politicians have been unable to reach agreement on a successor, with some DPJ lawmakers saying they prefer former deputy Central Bank governor Yutaka Yamaguchi. Business leader Mikio Wakatsuki, chairman of AXA Life Insurance of Japan, told reporters this week that it was "a national disgrace that this issue remains unresolved...
...That's unbelievable, a major international agreement, you worked on it for 24 years - that just confirms in people's mind our reputation as a really lousy international partner," said Norman Neureiter, who has had key roles in Washington's science and technology policy for over 40 years. "For the leading scientific nation in the world to have a reputation like that is really destructive in my view...
Iran isn't the only unlikely American scientific partner. In January the U.S. signed a science and technology agreement with Libya - the first bilateral accord since Washington re-established diplomatic relations...