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25 December 2007

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Stories from 25 December 2007

Europe: Good-Bye to More Borders

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Development, History

Novala, Europa says good-bye to border-crossings as more countries join the Schengen zone.

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China: Scrap the death penalty?

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Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Was it New Jersey's undoing of the 1976 reinstatement of capital punishment earlier this month, or the United Nations General Assembly's call for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty...

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Kazakhstan: Debates over Latinization of Kazakh Language

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

Kazakhstan intends to switch the state language to the Latin script. It was announced that the transition will take 12-15 years. As adam_kesher writes, the plan stirred many disputes and...

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Egypt: Rama Yade

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

Rama Yade, France's Secretary of State, has inspired Egyptian blogger Eastern Bird to write the following post, which Tarek Amr translates from Arabic.

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Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko and Coal Miners

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Yulia Tymoshenko returned as Ukraine's prime minister on Dec. 18. Five days later, she was in Donetsk region, visiting the site of Ukraine's worst coal mining accident, the troubled Zasyadko mine. While there, she declared: "We'll be working on it and will make it so that in our country both young people and children would want to become coal miners." Below is a discussion of Tymoshenko's promise that took place at Korrespondent.net, a Ukrainian news site.

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