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Middle East In Transition UN Official Accuses Syria of Bludgeoning Its People Voice of America The top UN human rights official is accusing Syria of trying to "bludgeon its population into submission" with its crackdown on anti-government protesters. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said Thursday that it is "utterly ... See all stories on this topic »

Downing Street hits back at archbishop's broadside The Guardian The archbishop of Canterbury, who says the government is adopting policies for which no one voted. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Downing Street has hit back at claims made by the head of the Church of England that the coalition government is forcing ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Indonesia Says It Won't Fight Australian Cattle Ban Wall Street Journal By RAY BRINDAL CANBERRA—An Australian government-imposed suspension of live cattle exports to Indonesia is allowed under trade rules and won't flare into a trade dispute, senior officials from both countries said Thursday. Australian exports of live ... See all stories on this topic »

Javadekar dares Government to ban RSS The Hindu BJP national spokesperson Prakash Javadekar has dared the UPA government to ban the RSS which he described as the largest national school which instils patriotism in the youth. Addressing a Meet-the-Press programme organised by the Thiruvananthapuram ... See all stories on this topic » The Hindu

UK Property Firms Welcome Release Of Public Land For 100000 Homes Wall Street Journal By Michael Haddon LONDON (Dow Jones)--The UK property industry has welcomed government plans to release enough public land to build up to 100000 new homes, in a further attempt to get the country's sluggish housing market moving again. ... See all stories on this topic »

Vietnam's Bonds Fall as Government Says Inflation May Quicken Bloomberg The government should maintain a tight monetary and fiscal policy, including higher interest rates and tougher credit, until the currently "intolerable" inflation rate is less than 10 percent, the World Bank said in a report released at the conference ... See all stories on this topic »

What does this government really mean by localism? The Guardian (blog) Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters When the Government says it wants to make "localism, localism, localism" its foundation for policymaking, who can disagree? It is difficult to find anyone who will say that they don't want power to be exercised closer ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

Government to sell off SA lotteries Ninemsn "It's a point of principle... it's better for a state government to be a regulator of the gambling industry rather than an operator," he told journalists on Thursday. "It's an economic decision and a moral decision...it's the right thing to do by South ... See all stories on this topic »

Blagojevich portrayed as desperate, corrupt Chicago Tribune A prosecutor pointed jurors to a trove of government wiretaps as closing arguments began Wednesday at Rod Blagojevich's corruption retrial, saying the undercover recordings prove his guilt by revealing what the then-governor said "when he thought that ... See all stories on this topic » Chicago Tribune

DILG probes Kalinga gov's 'assault' on radioman GMANews.TV (Updated 3:23 pm) The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Thursday launched an investigation into the alleged assault by the governor of Kalinga province against a local radio anchor. DILG secretary Jesse Robredo told GMA News Online ... See all stories on this topic »

Fiji threatens Canberra for granting visa Sydney Morning Herald Fiji's military government has accused Canberra of adding to tensions between the two nations by granting a travel visa to a former senior Fijian official who fled the regime. Lieutenant Colonel Ratu Tevita Mara, an ally-turned-foe of Fiji's ... See all stories on this topic »

Public service wage deal expected soon: Manyi Times LIVE A wage settlement between the government and public sector unions is expected soon, cabinet spokesman Jimmy Manyi said on Thursday. In its regular meeting on Wednesday, the cabinet had endorsed "the discipline by government to respect the Public ... See all stories on this topic » Times LIVE

Minister Anthony Albanese says congestion taxes should be considered Herald Sun A SENIOR Gillard Government minister says a congestion tax should be considered, even though Labor rejected the idea only last year. The Henry tax review proposed charging motorists for every kilometre they drove, with higher fees levied for driving ... See all stories on this topic »

Nearly 200 patients left to die as the Government's £22million cancer fund ... Daily Mail By Sophie Borland Nearly 200 dying patients were turned down by the Government's Cancer Drugs Fund - even though nearly half of the money was left in the pot. In some parts of the country a quarter of sufferers applying for life-extending treatments ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Ottawa embraces higher user fees, holds to no tax hikes Globe and Mail The Conservative government is counting on higher user fees as part of its deficit-fighting plan even as Prime Minister Stephen Harper boasts that he won't raise taxes. It's a distinction that may be lost on many Canadians, but the government is ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Nova Scotia's NDP government faces rural resentment two years after election The Canadian Press HALIFAX — When Atlantic Canada's first NDP government swept to power two years ago, it did so on a promise of change, buoyed by hopes that it would listen to people who felt their voices weren't heard by previous Liberal and Conservative ... See all stories on this topic » The Canadian Press

HK Government Sells Borrett Road Site For HK$11.65 Bln; Below Expectations Wall Street Journal HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--Hong Kong's government sold a luxury residential site on Borrett Road in the Mid-Levels district for HK$11.65 billion (US$1.50 billion) in an auction Thursday, below market expectations, suggesting that the government's earlier ... See all stories on this topic »

Conservative MPs meet with shipyard lobbyists, despite government ban The Canadian Press OTTAWA — Conservative MPs and senators have been meeting with lobbyists for shipyards — even though the government says it wants lobbyists excluded from a massive $35-billion shipbuilding program. Canada's shipyards were asked not to use registered ... See all stories on this topic » The Canadian Press

Labor under pressure to meet commitment to move majority of kids out of detention The Australian The federal government is refusing to say when an asylum-seeker swap deal with Malaysia will be signed. THE Gillard government still has 741 children in immigration detention facilities, with three weeks left to meet its commitment to move the ... See all stories on this topic »

Kenny rules out rate deal but bailout II is firmly on agenda Irish Times THE GOVERNMENT would appear finally to have thrown in the towel on getting a reduction the interest rate on the EU-IMF deal. The rhetoric has been steadily toned down over the last few weeks in the face of French intransigence and despite an apparent ... See all stories on this topic »

Salmond is told he has the tools to fix economy Herald Scotland Alex Salmond's call for the UK Government to adopt a Plan B to protect economic recovery was swiftly rebuffed by Scottish Secretary Michael Moore last night, who insisted the Scottish Government had the financial tools to do the job and should now get ... See all stories on this topic »

'BJP keeps Maoist issue alive in Chhattisgarh' Economic Times RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has kept the Maoist issue alive for political advantage, says state Congress president Nand Kumar Patel, claiming that the number of insurgency affected districts has doubled under the ... See all stories on this topic »

Vince Cable accuses banks of failing to co-operate with bonus and lending ... Telegraph.co.uk British banks are failing to co-operate with the Government over agreements made over bonus payments and lending targets, the Business Secretary has said. Mr Cable told MPs he had written to the banks to demand they release information about how ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Government tightens own spending in budget, announces 'pro-poor' projections Daily Monitor By Yasiin Mugerwa (email the author) Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka yesterday unveiled a record Shs9.8 trillion budget for the 2011/12 Financial Year that seeks to expand government spending without raising taxes. Reading her maiden budget just days ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Monitor

Centre allows more cotton exports, Gujarat to benefit Daily News & Analysis By DNA Correspondent | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA, Agencies The central government on Wednesday decided to allow export of additional 10 lakh bales of cotton during the current season, bringing cheers to cotton farmers of Gujarat and other states. ... See all stories on this topic »

US steps up covert war in Yemen as conflict leaves government clinging to power Daily Mail The accelerated campaign has occurred in recent weeks as violent conflict in Yemen has left the government in Sana'a struggling to cling to power. A report in the New York Times said Yemeni troops that had been battling militants linked to al Qaeda in ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Plans to rein in public sector well received - English TVNZ Senior managers of government departments had little understanding of how their organisations ran when the government took office in 2008, says Finance Minister Bill English. Addressing a Trans-Tasman Business Circle lunch in Wellington, English said ... See all stories on this topic »

Spain planning changes to collective bargaining system as part of structural ... Washington Post By AP, MADRID — Spain's government is meeting with union leaders as it prepares to unveil key structural reforms of the labor market in a bid to encourage hiring and stimulate a sluggish economy saddled with a 21 percent jobless rate. ... See all stories on this topic »

Government Announces New Internet Security Plan Wall Street Journal The task force said it believes the government's role in Internet security should be "proactively promoting industry-led efforts and widely accepted standards." Jim Dempsey, vice president of public policy for the Center for Democracy and Technology, ... See all stories on this topic »

British government attacked by MEPs over EU budget criticisms BBC News The UK government's criticisms of a proposed increase in the EU's long-term budget have been attacked as a "provocation to Europe and the European Union" during a debate on 8 June 2011. Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of the European Parliament's liberal ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

FUKUSHIMA LESSONS: Government admits failures in Fukushima crisis Asahi Shimbun 1 nuclear accident, talks to journalists about a government report on the accident submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency on June 7. (Satoru Iizuka) The Japanese government's report to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about ... See all stories on this topic »

Portugal's PSD, CDS move to prepare government pact Reuters LISBON, June 8 (Reuters) - Portugal's prime minister in waiting, Pedro Passos Coelho, began formal coalition talks with the rightist CDS-PP party on Wednesday and the sides appointed teams to prepare a pact swiftly to form a majority government. ... See all stories on this topic »

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Tough on Clarke but still soft on crime Daily Mail By Daily Mail Comment The Mail is delighted the Government has at last seen the folly of Ken Clarke's plan to halve sentences for criminals who enter an early plea of guilty. But isn't it simply unacceptable for No 10 to present this as a case of a ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

MDCEs should collaborate with government Information Officers Ghana News Agency Koforidua, June 8, GNA-Mr Mohammed Ahmed Baba Jamal, Deputy Minister of information, on Wednesday urged Municipal and District Chief Executives (MDCEs) to collaborate with Information Officers to propagate government's information and gather public ... See all stories on this topic » Ghana News Agency

Web Legion Anonymous Hacks Indian Government Database Huffington Post In a time of government gone wild, the online hyucksters and hackers known as Anonymous have taken it upon themselves to teach The Man a thing or two. Somewhat congregated on message boards like 4chan and Reddit, Anonymous is known for targeting ... See all stories on this topic »

Safety Advocates Demand Government Recall Jeep Grand Cherokee ABC News By LISA STARK (@LisaStark) and BEN FORER The Center for Auto Safety is demanding the government recall 2.2 million Jeep Grand Cherokees, model years 1993 through 2004, because of what they say is a defective fuel tank design that can cause the gas tank ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News

Google reroutes Kazakh traffic after government spat Telegraph.co.uk Google has rerouted all internet traffic in Kazakhstan in response to a government attempt to "create borders on the web". By Richard Orange, in Almaty The web search giant announced that starting from Thursday, it would redirect everyone who visited ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Why Government Licensing Prices Poor People Out of Business Fox News It's intuitive to think that government should license taxis to make sure they're safe and to limit their number. It's intuitive to believe that if anyone could just start picking up passengers, we'd have chaos. So to operate a taxi in NYC, ... See all stories on this topic »

Harper blasted for using government jet to fly to Game 4 in Boston Hamilton Spectator Harper blasted for use of jet to fly to Game 4 Critics are blasting Prime Minister Stephen Harper for using a government Challenger jet to attend Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final in Boston. OTTAWA Critics are blasting Prime Minister Stephen Harper for ... See all stories on this topic »

Lebanese government lifts ban on Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' NME.com The Lebanese government has lifted the ban of Lady Gaga's second studio album 'Born This Way' it had imposed in the country. Thousands of copies of the album, which is currently at Number One in the UK albums chart, were impounded by Lebanese ... See all stories on this topic » NME.com

Japan Government: Considering More Evacuations Around Fukushima Plant Wall Street Journal TOKYO (Dow Jones)--The Japanese government is considering evacuating residents from so-called "hotspots" outside the designated evacuation zones around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, where radiation levels are unusually high, ... See all stories on this topic »

Government yet to release fee arrears IBNLive.com They alleged the government had failed to release the third instalment of Rs 1000 crore during May. CPECMA representatives said the state government had failed to keep up its promise for releasing arrears of fee reimbursement to colleges in a phased ... See all stories on this topic »

German Government Bonds Gain as Exports Slide More Than Forecast San Francisco Chronicle June 8 (Bloomberg) -- German government bonds advanced as stocks declined and data showed the nation's exports slumped more than economists forecast in April, stoking demand for the safest assets. The gains pushed the 10-year bund yield down from near ... See all stories on this topic »

A bully with enablers in the corridors of government Boston Globe IN ORDER to succeed, a bully needs enablers willing to cower and give in to his unreasonable demands. The egregious behavior of the AFL-CIO's Robert Haynes has been enabled over the years by some of the very elected leaders the Globe claims to be ... See all stories on this topic »

SocGen favors Spanish, Italian government debt Reuters By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Spanish and Italian government bonds offer the best bet for investors in a euro zone crisis that is unlikely to end in any sovereign default, French bank Societe Generale's star ... See all stories on this topic »

Secondary Sources: Male vs. Female Income, German Example, Government Cuts Wall Street Journal (blog) "The brief story is that, despite its reputation for austerity, Germany has been far more willing than the United States to use the power of government to help its economy. Yet it has also been more ruthless about cutting wasteful parts of government. ... See all stories on this topic »

Australia Employers Added Fewer Jobs Than Forecast in May; Currency Drops Bloomberg Natural disasters in Australia probably cut more than 1 percentage point from economic growth in the first quarter, Treasurer Wayne Swan said ahead of a government report this week on gross domestic product. Bloxham speaks with Rishaad Salamat on ... See all stories on this topic »

Public pays price for privatization Politico And throughout the 1930s and '40s, the government designed an elaborate set of public financing vehicles to build the great postwar suburban housing stock. America used to be a country that built things — using public and private resources. ... See all stories on this topic » Politico

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