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...highest in Europe, both east and west, and it's not just school leavers with few or no qualifications who can't land a job. More than 7% of French university graduates in their late 20s are unemployed - one of the worst records in the European Union and about 50% higher than the E.U. average. Moreover, many of the jobs that are available to young people, even highly skilled ones, tend to be short-term and poorly paid. That's a consequence of a skewed labor market, which provides so much protection to full-time employees that firms are reluctant...
...European Union and Russia have all called for a peaceful solution to the standoff, but its outcome will have broad implications for Ukraine's role in world politics. Last month the U.S. Senate approved a bill providing support and funding for Ukraine's candidacy to join nato. Moscow bitterly opposes this and has long been more friendly to the anti-nato Yanukovych. "Yushchenko sees us as a huge log that blocks his path to nato," a Rada deputy of Yanukovych's faction told Time. "He also knows that this log is stuffed with cash," he added, suggesting that money enticed...
Mary G. Sims, UNION...
Number of Ugandan peacekeepers the African Union has deployed in Somalia so far. On April 3, Western diplomats said Ethiopian forces should not leave until a robust A.U. force is in place...
...outcome is a significant boost for Iran's pragmatists led by Ali Larijani, head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and who is also Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator. Last year, Ahmadinejad's hard-line opposition had helped scuttle a deal Larijani was crafting in discussion with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana that involved a temporary suspension of Iran's enrichment program. In announcing the release of the Britons, Ahmadinejad signaled that the more radical faction of Iran's leadership would not stand in the way of Larijani's dealings with the West. The question...