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About 40% of the country's unemployed, or 6.1 million people, have been out of work for at least six months, and the number of people working part-time because they can't find full-time employment stands at 8.8 million.
Rather than clarifying Iraq's political future as American combat forces plan to withdraw in the summer, the election appears to have yielded another period of political uncertainty. Until now, Iraqi politicians have managed to hold things together by deferring decisions on some of the toughest points of contention, such...
Greece's unions, which had waged only halfhearted protests against the first round of austerity measures, immediately declared war. Over the past week, scattered protests involving tax officials, pensioners, garbage collectors and others have disrupted life in the city. Thursday's strike was the second called by Greece's main...
So far, the intensity of the violence doesn't yet rival the worst of the riots that racked Greece in December 2008, when the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old boy sparked weeks of street protests and vandalism. But since the government announced the second round of austerity...
In light of the ongoing power struggle between Iraq's communities and their regional supporters, the design of the country's democratic system may hamper efforts to build a strong government. Iraq's democracy is a parliamentary system based on the principle of proportional representation - voters all over the country...