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...report says that many parliamentarians have claimed expenses for family members or transferred funds to firms that seemed to have no purpose beyond receiving them. Although the report does not say how much of the 150 million-euro ($230 million) annual staff fund is abused, the allegations of fraud appear to extend to parliamentarians across the political spectrum and from all 27 E.U. member states...
Irish and Italian politicians, angered by the Kennedy School’s decision, retaliated by changing the name of the street fronting the school from Boylston St. to John F. Kennedy St. so that the name “Kennedy” would still appear on the school’s stationery, according to The New York Times...
...hopefully will prevent this sort of racist discourse from running under the radar in the future. Many other opinions writers for The Campus Press wrote that they were appalled to see, “If it’s war the Asians want…” appear in the paper...
...India's political leaders, meanwhile, appear to have grasped the reality that political stability and development in Kashmir could be of benefit to all. Violence there has been reduced to the point where the Kashmir insurgency is no longer even the biggest internal security issue facing India. Last year, the number of people killed by a Maoist insurgency in eastern and central India was higher than those killed in the Kashmir Valley. "The entire thinking is changing," says Balraj Puri, the director of the Institute of Jammu and Kashmir Affairs and author of a recent book entitled Kashmir: Insurgency...
...city Lyon, as well as in Nantes, Rouen and Dijon. The left also posted dominant leads in Paris, Lille and Strasbourg, and was in tight races going into run-offs even in such traditional conservative bastions as Marseille and Toulouse. In many close runoff races next weekend, Socialist candidates appear more likely to gain the support of the centrist Modem party, which had once been a coalition partner of Sarkozy's UMP - although the centrists may demand a prohibitive price for throwing their support to the Socialists...