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...decision to walk away spared the government of Kevin Rudd, the Mandarin-speaking Prime Minister of Australia, from having to make the tough decision as to whether to let the Chinalco investment go forward. After the Rio announcement, Rudd made a point of saying that Australia was very much open to foreign investment, and then met in Canberra on Friday with Xiong to reinforce the point. Analysts say the government was likely to approve the investment, but only after imposing what surmised would be "tough conditions." It s still unclear what those "conditions" might have been...
...hundres of protestors blocked one of Melbourne's busiest intersections. The protest was later broken up by police and 18 people were arrested. "The students are frustrated... Whenever they go to the authorities, they believe they are not taken seriously," says FISA president Amit Menghani. On Monday June 1, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told Federal Parliament that he had spoken with the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and assured him that Indian students - whose tuition is healthy source of income for Australian universities - are welcome. In a press release, he said a taskforce had been set up which would include...
...know it is a long and difficult way," said Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, according to a translation of his prepared remarks. "But we also know how much a united Europe and an America true to its values can achieve together." A few minutes after Sarkozy spoke, British prime minister Gordon Brown said to his colleagues, "We are eternal allies because of this...
Survivors of the invasion are now a dwindling group - 18-year-olds in 1944 are now 83 years old. Benjamin Franklin, one of those veterans from Knoxville, Tenn., stood on a bluff overlooking the beach and spoke to Obama, Sarkozy, Brown, Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Prince Charles of Britain. Sixty-five years ago, Franklin had landed with Allied forces and fought for more than three months in the farmlands of Normandy. Over the last 25 years, Franklin has been giving talks about his experience. Now that was coming to an end. "This is the end of my military...
...Berlusconi's lawyer quickly announced that the Prime Minister would sue the Spanish paper for violation of privacy, and Berlusconi called the publication of the photos a "scandalous aggression...