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• Fifteen Countries to be Represented At the International Film Festival of Marrakech

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 157
  Fifteen films representing fifteen nationalities will participate in the International Film Festival of Marrakech (FIFM), Morocco, scheduled to take place 4-12 December, organizers said on Saturday. Eight of the 15 shortlisted films will be presented for the first time : Heliopolis by Ahmad Abdallah (Egypt), Leo’s ...
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• Eurovision TV Facebook Live Streams

  
  An Irish Bromance — Authority: 141
  Дитячий конкурс пісні Central European Clock. Show starts at 20:15 C.E.T! Berlin Time Tonight at 20:15 CET, Europe will tune in for the 7th running of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, live from the Palace of Sports in Kyiv, Ukraine. Young talent hopefuls from 13 countries are ...
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• Euro Notes: The New EU President and Return of Courtiers and Mandarins?

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 484
  The Belgian politician Herman Van Rompuy is the new (and unanimously selected) President of the EU, but some Euroskeptics arent too happy with the process that put him into that office . Blurb from one critic: A modern parody of absolute monarchy and the divine right of kings is being staged in Europe right now. ...
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• The Blair Presidency Facade

  
  walls come tumbling down — Authority: 118
  Much has been made in recent days about the ’snubbing’ of Tony Blair as European President in favour of the relatively unknown Belgian, Herman Van Rompuy. The reasons for the apparent snub depend largely on the newspaper of preference with the Guardian this morning favouring the story that as Blair had apparently ...
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• Turkey’s Concern over the First European Union President

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 628
  Receive our latest updates by email or RSS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR FEED Buy Us A Cup of Coffee? Help Enduring America Expand Its Coverage and Analysis As soon as he was appointed as the European Union’s first President, Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy became the target of Turkish media and ...
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  radical royalist — Authority: 113
  Presidents come with high costs Remember the popular republican complaint, a Monarchy would cost the taxpayer tooooooo much money? Republicans give the impression, a president would be cheaper, certainly "more cost efficient". Wait a minute, why not make a reality check? The newly installed EU president, Belgian ...
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• THE SEVEN WONDERS OF WORLD

  
  Mail Art Projects — Authority: 126
  llustrate one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World :Pyramid, Hanging gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, lighthouse of Alexandria... or any others wonders of the medieval or modern world : Mont Saint Michel, Taj Mahal, Leaning tower of Pisa, ...
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• EU Heads of Government Name 1st Full-time President

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 521
  Despite months, even years, of speculation the job would go to the former 2.5-term British prime minister, Tony Blair, the European Union has named Belgium’s new multilingual, largely unknown Flemish prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, its first full-time president. Van Rompuy’s role will be daunting and complex, ...
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• Two challenging choices for EUs future: President Van Rompuy and HR Ashton

  
  Le Taurillon, magazine eurocitoyen — Authority: 137
  Many words have been written about the appointment procedure of the two new positions set up by the Lisbon treaty and on the possible candidates. What we have experienced at 19 November is once again a process carried out behind closed doors despite the fact that some Member States had proposed different options. In ...
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• Saving the single cysteine: New antioxidant system found

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 642
  ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Weve all read studies about the health benefits of having a life partner. The same thing is true at the molecular level, where amino acids known as cysteines are much more vulnerable to damage when single than when paired up with other cysteines.
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• Letters: Hymn to Belgiums EU president

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  As a Belgian, I am shocked by the disinformation around the candidacy and person of Mr Van Rompuy, especially by the British tabloids ( The great EU stitch-up , 20 November). Their comments are an insult. Van Rompuy is not to be an executive president like the US president; he is the chairman, a consensus-builder of a ...
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• Junior Eurovision Song Дитячий конкурс пісні

  
  An Irish Bromance — Authority: 141
  It’s the Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Дитячий конкурс пісні live from Kyiv. Tune in to the live webcast from Kyiv!!! This Saturday at 20:15 CET, tune in for the live webcast of  the 7th running of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, live from the Palace of Sports in Kyiv, Ukraine. ...
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• H1N1 flu spreading east, peaking in some areas-WHO

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 728
  Source: Reuters * Flu moving eastward after peaking in parts of Europe, U.S.* Latest death toll is 6,770, up 520 in past week GENEVA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The H1N1 flu is moving eastwards across Europe and Asia ...
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• Crime – Ninth and Tenth Months

  
  JOST A MON — Authority: 115
  Keen-eyed readers may have observed that the ninth month of roundups of translated crime fiction never appeared in these pages. The same readers may have then shrugged and moved on with their lives. A recent holiday interfered with the sequence of posts, so Im combining two months worth here. Camomile Street library ...
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• 26-year-old World War I Victim

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 790
  Maité Roël of Bovekerke, Belgium is the youngest victim of the first World War. As a disabled war victim, she carries a veteran’s card that entitles her to reduced train fares, but gets suspicious looks when she uses it. Roël was only nine years old when an RAF bomb that was inadvertently thrown on a bonfire ...
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• Biologists discover bacterial defense mechanism against aggressive oxygen

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 642
  Brussel, November 19th 2009 - Bacteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell. This is the new finding of a team of biologists that includes Joris Messens of VIB, a life sciences research institute in Flanders, Belgium, connected to the Vrije Universiteit ...
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• Watching a cannibal galaxy dine

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 642
  Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is the nearest giant, elliptical galaxy, at a distance of about 11 million light-years. One of the most studied objects in the southern sky, by 1847 the unique appearance of this galaxy had already caught the attention of the famous British astronomer John Herschel, who catalogued the southern ...
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• Herman Van Rompuys curious haikus | Jon Henley

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 161
  First miracle man. Then the EU president. A famous Belgian Most of Herman Van Rompuys website , as one might perhaps expect of an upstanding European (and since last night, Europeans dont get much more upstanding than Herman), is in three languages. You can, if you choose, read the soon-to-be-ex-Belgian prime ...
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• Togo to Host 7th International Trade Fair

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 157
  Some 550 exhibitors from several countries in the world are expected at the Lome 7th International Trade Fair which opens on Friday in the Togolese capital. The director of the Togo Exhibitions Center (CETEF) Kueku-Banka Johnson said during a press conference that exhibitors are from 16 countries namely, Benin, ...
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• The EU Chooses not to enter the big league on the side of China and the US: on Foreign Policy it wants rather to see Brussels be led by the European Commission in a way similar to how the US is led by the Senate – and as such also elected a President that

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 509
  The European dis-Union did not chose an Obama, but someone whose only managerial success was the creation of a Belgian government after a long time they had none. His departure from the job – will throw perhaps into a relapse his country divided into Flanders and Wallonia. The Foreign Policy at the EU will be headed ...
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