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...BUNNING, Republican Senator from Kentucky, to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke during a Dec. 3 Senate Banking Committee hearing on Bernanke's nomination for a second term. Bunning criticized Bernanke for deeming some companies "too big to fail...
First, the good news. Iraqi officials finally settled on a date for the country's second parliamentary election since Saddam Hussein was deposed in 2003, breaking a deadlock caused by months of sectarian disputes. But two days later, a series of car bombs in Baghdad killed at least 127 people and wounded more than 400. Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed al-Qaeda for the attacks, accusing the Sunni militant organization of attempting to "create chaos in the country." The coordinated attacks--the third in a string of massive bombings in Baghdad since August--prompted doubts over...
Hopes that an election would put an end to Romania's political stalemate were dashed when center-right incumbent Traian Basescu won the Dec. 7 vote by less than 1%, leading his opponent, Mircea Geoana, to accuse him of "massive fraud" and push for a second vote. The E.U.'s second poorest member has struggled to maintain stability since its government collapsed amid political infighting in October...
...other end of the fairground, beyond the bumper cars, circus tents and spinning tea cups, children line up outside Nicaragua's first public ice-skating rink, built inside a climate-controlled plastic tent that defies the scorching 95 degree heat outside. Wearing loosely laced second-hand skates with dull blades and inadequate ankle support, the excited children - most of whom have never seen ice outside of a drinking glass - giggle, flop and crash their way across the Zamboni-starved ice. (Read a story about Nicaragua's vampire problem...
...health, education and protection, says María Jesús Gomez, head of the Nicaraguan Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations Working with Children and Adolescents (CODENI). Gomez says the Happy Children theme park is not a sustainable strategy to deal with problems facing children in the hemisphere's second-poorest country after Haiti...