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...interview with TIME, Paul Simons, the U.S. ambassador to Chile, said the U.S. stands ready to offer any aid to Chile to help it meet all the needs of its citizens. But, Simons pointed out, Chile is a leader in emergency response and emergency management - the country was one of the first to send help to Haiti. "It may be they don't need our help," he said...
Politicians have thundered their outrage too. Greece's deputy prime minister, socialist stalwart Theodoros Pangalos, told the BBC that Germany still owed Greece for stealing its gold during World War II. Parliamentary speaker Filippos Petsalnikos summoned the Germany ambassador to discuss the "offensive" coverage of the crisis in the German press...
...filmmaker named Salim Makhlouf summed up the sentiment of many Web users: "Italy needs to catch up with the times of open networks and get off Google's back." Some bloggers compared the verdict to convicting postal workers for delivering hate mail. And in an unusual step, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, David Thorne, entered the fray, saying Washington was "disappointed" by the ruling, which he called a threat to Internet freedom. "While all nations must guard against abuses, offensive material should not be an excuse to violate this fundamental right," Thorne said in a statement...
...official car with a black pen, grabbed a staff member by the lapels and earned a "pep talk" about how to treat staff from Cabinet Secretary, Gus O'Donnell. Taken together with Watt's depiction of a temperamental premier sulking at a dinner including Louis Susman, later appointed U.S. ambassador to London, after guests took their seats without waiting for Brown to allocate placements, and Price's account of Brown's "extraordinary flashes of anger," this contributes to a picture of the kind of volatility that undermined John McCain's presidential campaign...
...Points and a Marriott hotel are scheduled to open next year. U.S. businesses are not expected to seal any deals this week; with few contacts, they are focusing on just breaking the ice with Libyans. "This is a get-to-know-Libya trip," says Gene Cretz, the first U.S. ambassador to Libya since the 1970s. "There has been estrangement for 30 years, and we are still searching for the language to talk to each other...