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Deepening environmental problems mean Thailand's capital will face even worse flooding in the future
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Former European Central Bank VP Lucas Papademos is taking over as Greece's new prime minister
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You might not know it, but a key cog in the global innovation machine is hiding in plain sight in the world's largest democracy
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Why can't countries avoid a collision with debt that would shatter the EU and throw the world into recession?
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A classmate remembers George Papandreou and Antonis Samaras
The Brett Ratner-Eddie Murphy gimmick was just the latest bad idea
Nixon's Watergate testimony has been unsealed. In 1973, The Atlantic detailed the danger in the White House.
Building a base in Australia shows America will refocus on the Pacific after a decade in Afghanistan and the Mideast
A defender of factory farming for foie gras claims ducks "run up" to eat, but video shows that is not necessarily true
The candidate showed a lack of basic competency when he couldn't name which agencies he would cut as president
While covering the Libyan civil war, the author was seized by Qaddafi’s forces and imprisoned in Tripoli
Tehran may open up if the West promises not to punish past transgressions
The director interviewed an inmate eight days before he was executed for the new documentary, Into the Abyss
The defeat of an anti-union bill in Ohio may show the future of Occupy Wall Street
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