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"There is a disbelief in the political structures that are in place because they don’t represent the real needs of the population."

Military spending in France and Spain grabbed the spotlight this week in the latest act of the euro crisis.

Uruguay's House of Representatives has passed a bill to legalize marijuana by 50 of the 96 MPs following 13 hours of tough debates.

In an effort to protect lands that were confiscated or stolen for recent development projects and business development in Karen State, the Karen National Union is working on a land policy that will then be proposed to the Burma government.

The Transnational Institute, an Amsterdam-based scholar-activist organization, observed that the response of the Bolivian press is understandable because there have been previous suspicions of outside forces wanting to exercise military control over the natural resources of the Chaco (Tarija) region.

The Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) is in trouble. Report after report has indicated that the massive U.S.-EU deal is on shaky ground now that the NSA spying scandal has fueled European privacy concerns and botched the hopes of U.S. telecommunications firms to use the deal to downsize data privacy protections.

When Swiss law professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler joined the board of UBS AG, she was sitting on international tribunals judging whether Vivendi Universal SA and another company whose shares UBS held were entitled to damages from Argentina in investment disputes.

A recent front-page headline in the London Evening Standard declared: "Cameron: We must act over Syria gas attacks."

Die Regierung Orbán betont, sie wolle die großflächigen Agrarstrukturen aufbrechen und lokalen Landwirten Ackerbesitz ermöglichen - auch nach der Liberalisierung.