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July 2, 2009

Turks Defiant as Official Date for Anti-Smoking Ban Looms

by Josie Ensor, Daily Star, Lebanon - For hundreds of years the intoxicating tobacco haze of Turkey's water pipes has filled its air, making up part of the cultural landscape as much as the country's Blue Mosque or Grand Bazaar.

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Moment of Truth for Europe's Common Currency

by Anne Seith, Spiegel, Germany - Greece's financial difficulties have exposed numerous weaknesses which threaten Europe's common currency. Now, policy makers and economic experts are...

Casualties of the Post-War Era

by Anna Badkhen, The National, UAE - In spite of the republic’s meteoric reconstruction, kidnappings and extra-judicial killings still ravage Chechnya....

Reproductive Rights, Parental Rights, and Family Violence: A Dangerous Intersection

by Joan Dawson, RH Reality Check, USA - When do reproductive rights end? Do they end at birth? Do they continue throughout a child’s life?...

Desperate Mid-Eastern Mediators

by Maria Appakova, RIA Novosti, Russia - Does it make sense for the Quartet to meet at all? Even the United States was given a...

China Lets its Cash Speak in the Balkans

by Tamsin Walker, Deutsche Welle, Germany - As Brussels painstakingly deliberates the merits of aspiring European Union members in the Balkans, Beijing has begun an...