COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The Little Mermaid statue in Denmark’s capital was found draped in a Muslim dress and head scarf Sunday morning.
Police removed the clothing after a telephone caller reported it, spokesman Jorgen Thomsen said.
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MEXICO CITY, May 19 (Itar-Tass) — Russia and Nicaragua “begin a new stage of relations striving to consolidate friendship and cooperation in all spheres,” Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Friday during a meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak who heads the Russian delegation at a regular round of Russian-Nicaraguan political consultations held [...]

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Be that as it may, it would be pertinent to point out that the Finns would have every reason to be antagonistic toward their much larger eastern neighbour. Not only did Russia rule Finland for almost a century, but under the terms of their peace treaty at the end of World war II, Finland not [...]

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Book Description
A simple question lurks amid the considerable controversy created by recent U.S. policy: what road did Americans travel to reach their current global preeminence?
From the Inside Flap
What road did Americans travel to reach their current global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, Hunt demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership were key elements to AmericaÕs [...]

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The optimists assume that once a country becomes more affluent, its emerging middle class will press for democratic change. But in China, the middle class — still a tiny proportion of the overall population — supports or at least goes along with the existing political order, which after all made it middle class in the [...]

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Beijing- China was “losing no time” in preparing its first lunar orbiter, Chang’e I, which will most likely be launched in the second half of 2007, a space official said here on Sunday.
“The moon probe project is the third milestone in China’s space technology after satellite and manned spacecraft projects, and a first step for [...]

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Beijing, May 20: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a regional security body, is keen to step up and consolidate its relations with India in all spheres, including in the fight against terrorism, drug trafficking and economic cooperation, a senior official said.
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ISRAELI leaders last night decided not to send tanks further into Gaza to stop incessant rocket fire from Hamas militants who have sworn to spill a brutal Palestinian power struggle into a direct clash with the Israeli army.
The Israeli Defence Force remained camped on Gaza’s northern fringe as attack helicopters and drones struck cars alleged [...]

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A new U.S. report that says China’s nuclear strategy could result in an unnecessary nuclear conflict has grabbed the attention of Asian strategic analysts and the Western defense community.
“China’s Nuclear Forces: Operations, Training, Doctrine, Command, Control, and Campaign Planning” by Larry Wortzel, commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, examines the potential threat [...]

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A new report by the Carnegie Endowment and China’s Development Research Center shows that the health of China’s economy and trade over the next 15 years will have more impact on China’s rural poor than any other segment of Chinese society. The report also finds that while WTO accession has generally benefited China’s economy, [...]

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Yet a surprising number of respected strategic thinkers and foreign-policy elites, from both ends of the political spectrum, already detect a fundamental and potentially lasting realignment of power on the strategic chessboard. Even if an American era that decisively shaped world affairs for the past half-century has not been eclipsed, they warn that it certainly [...]

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‘It can be absolutely pitch black and the cameras will still see the energy given out by the object. That’s why they’re so useful at night. Because objects are still giving off energy and you can see these objects.’
The camera sends continuous video image of the boat’s surroundings through to a display screen; it’s like [...]

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There’s a deep reservoir of good will beneath all the Bush-era animosity.
Europe’s leaders are slowly waking up to the fact that, with shrinking birth rates and a diminished work force, the Continent may no longer be able to afford lavish social benefits, such as universal health care, retirement on full pensions as early as age [...]

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