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...first report to detail Germany's poverty levels and break the results down by region. It shows that in eastern Germany, for example, the average poverty rate is around 20%, with up to 27% of people in one area, Vorpommern, living below the poverty line. By contrast, in southern Germany, in the states of Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, the poverty rate is around 11%. (See pictures of printing money in Germany...
...poverty rate of only 7.4%. According to the report, the massive gulf between rich and poor doesn't only exist between regions, but within them, too. The northern areas of the state of Bavaria have a poverty rate of 15%, more than double the 7% rate in Munich, in southern Bavaria. (Read about Merkel in the TIME...
...outset, Memorial Day was so closely linked with the Union cause that many Southern states refused to celebrate it. They acquiesced only after World War I, when the holiday was expanded beyond honoring fallen Civil War soldiers to recognizing Americans who died fighting in all wars. It was also renamed Memorial Day. Some critics say that by making the holiday more inclusive, however, the original focus - on, as Frederick Douglass put it, the moral clash between "slavery and freedom, barbarism and civilization" - has been lost. Most Southern states still recognize Confederate Memorial Day as an official holiday, and many celebrate...
Meanwhile, Tsvangirai accused Mugabe of making unilateral decisions in appointing senior government officials such as the attorney general, the central-bank head and diplomats. The Prime Minister's political party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has since called on the Southern African Development Community - which brokered the power-sharing deal - to mediate between it and Mugabe's party, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU-PF). The MDC has accused Mugabe and ZANU-PF of stonewalling on issues like the continuing arrests of pro-democracy activists, lawyers and journalists and the ongoing invasions of white-owned farms...
...chengguan is seen as more galling because of the pedestrian nature of their responsibilities. Yet they themselves face threats too. "Street vendors are also using violence to fight against chengguan," He says. "Some have even formed mafia-like societies." On April 8 a city-management officer in the southern city of Shenzhen was stabbed to death by a vendor from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Witnesses told reporters that the chengguan officer and a partner had smashed a spicy-skewers stand where the man worked...