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...acre former industrial zone in east London that will become the focal point of the 2012 event has been transformed into Europe's biggest construction site. Steel for shoring up the massive new stadium's seating terraces is being installed. And work on the structure that will eventually support its roof is underway. But the progress masks concerns that the economic crisis will hit the world's biggest sporting event. As one member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) remarked on a recent visit to London, Britain's capital faces "the toughest time - short of wartime - to get the project...
...community cannot ignore any ruler who has held power for as long as Gaddafi. Even if they tried, they would be hard-pressed to forget a self-proclaimed high king with such a flair for the dramatic—who happens to rule a country with the oil to support his tastes...
...nations. Gaddafi’s pressure to bolster the AU can only help in this regard; though a continental army might be impractical, greater cooperation and expansion in the AU’s armed forces is necessary in order to restore some sort of stability to Somalia and support the transitional federal government...
...Gaddafi’s plan is especially important because of Africa’s complicated relationship with the United Nations and Europe. Many of the nations in positions to provide support and military assistance for the AU are the very nations that colonized Africa decades or centuries ago. Gaddafi’s call for a united Africa represents an African-born, African-comprised initiative...
Sidling up to the Vatican, the country's mercurial Prime Minister weighed in heavily on the Englaro case, declaring his moral obligation to do whatever possible to "save a life in danger." Berlusconi said that if it were his daughter lying in a coma, he wouldn't cut life support. Before her death he said that he'd been told that Englaro is "hypothetically" able to bear children. On Feb. 6 the prime minister introduced a decree that would have forced the doctors to provide full care and feeding to Englaro, but Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano refused to sign...