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...Shoah fills us Germans with shame. I bow before the victims. I bow before the survivors and before all those who helped them survive.' ANGELA MERKEL, German Chancellor, using the Hebrew word for Holocaust in the third speech ever delivered in German to the Israeli parliament...
...Shoah fills us Germans with shame. I bow before the victims. I bow before the survivors and before all those who helped them survive.' ANGELA MERKEL, German Chancellor, using the Hebrew word for Holocaust in the third speech ever delivered in German to the Israeli parliament...
...March 14 election for Iran's parliament left conservatives with over 70% of the 290 seats. That was a foregone conclusion; most reformist candidates were banned from taking part in the vote. Yet the election may yet prove a turning point in Iran's domestic politics and in Tehran's long cold war with Washington...
...financial instability not seen in years, Japan, the world's second-largest economy, has no central bank governor. Toshihiko Fukui, the current Bank of Japan (BoJ) chief, has packed his bags-his five-year term ended at midnight, March 19-and due to a political deadlock in Japan's parliament, it may be weeks before a successor is appointed...
...course, this doesn't mean the country is facing economic chaos. Central bank policies will continue to be carried out by Masaaki Shirakawa, who was approved by parliament last week as a deputy BoJ governor and who will temporarily take over for Fukui. But the Diet's inability to compromise with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and choose a new bank chief is seen by many as unsettling evidence that Japan has reached political gridlock and could face serious problems in the months ahead. "This is the kind of thing harms the image of Japanese governability," says Jun Iio, director...