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Video: Let banks fail, says Iceland’s president

January 28, 2013 By Teresa Albano

Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson said part of the country's prescription to growing its economy in the wake of its terrible financial crisis was refusing to bail out the banks and rejecting austerity measures that put...

Austerity rejected in Czech presidential election

January 28, 2013 By Emile Schepers

On Saturday, voters in the Czech Republic participated in runoff presidential elections.

“Hotel Evin” where checking out is not easy

January 28, 2013 By Jane Green

Evin prison in Tehran has for nearly 30 years been a notorious center for the punishment, torture, and execution of opponents to the Iranian regime.

Idle No More: Native movement sweeps Canada and U.S.

January 25, 2013 By Albert Bender

Native communities from coast to coast in the U.S. have embraced this upheaval.

Mali and chickens

January 24, 2013 By Conn Hallinan

The vision that Conrad's character Marlow describes is of a French frigate firing broadsides into a vast African jungle, in essence, bombarding a continent.