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It's tempting to dismiss Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi's call this week for a jihad against Switzerland as just another round in the feud between the two countries. But it would be a mistake to treat Gaddafi's rhetoric as mere theater. Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, the Libyan...
The response in Athens was widespread outrage. A daily newspaper, Eleftheros Typos, retaliated with its own doctored photograph depicting the golden statue atop Berlin's Column of Victory holding up a swastika. On Friday, Greece's oldest consumer group called for a boycott of German products. See pictures of the...
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...
But it was Athens' oft-intemperate mayor, Nikitas Kaklamanis, who upped the ante by invoking the ghosts of Greece's war dead: "Ms Merkel, you owe us for Kalavryta, you owe us for Distomo, you owe us ?70 billion ($95 billion) for the ruins you left us," he said, referring...
First, it showed just how far Sarkozy was prepared to go to "construct a new relation of confidence" with Rwanda by breaking with France's past position of irreproachability in the slaughter. Until now, the official French line has been that Paris reacted quickly to the crisis by leading a...