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China leads medal race after day two of competition at London Paralympics

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:00:04 GMT

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Medal ceremony for women's 10m SH1 standing air rifle
Image: Laura Hale.

London, England — Following the second full day of competition at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, China leads the medal race with 13 gold medals and 34 medals in total. Australia comes second with 7 gold, and the Ukraine is third with 6 gold medals.

China's large medal haul was distributed across several sports, with 15 from swimming, 5 each from athletics and track cycling, 4 from judo, 3 from powerlifting, 2 from shooting.

Australia's first medal of the Games was won in women's standing air rifle shooting event where Natalie Smith captured a bronze medal during the first medal event of the Games. One of Australia's bronze medals came in athletics' F35–36 shot put event. Kath Proudfoot originally was listed as finishing fifth, but the Australians appealed this citing errors in how her results were calculated. Their appeal was successful, and Proudfoot came away with her second consecutive Paralympic medal in the event.

Over half the medals won by the United States came in swimming, with 7 total. The country has earned an additional 3 in track cycling and 1 in athletics.

A number of competitors have already earned multiple medals, including Australia's Jacqueline Freney and Matthew Cowdrey, and the United States's Jessica Long and Elizabeth Stone who all picked up a pair of medals in the pool.

Rank	Country	Men Gold	Men Silver	Men Bronze	Men Total	Women Gold	Women Silver	Women Bronze	Women Total	Total Gold	Total Silver	Total Bronze	Total Total	Rank by total
1	China	8	7	5	20	5	3	6	14	13	10	11	34	1
2	Australia	2	2	3	7	5	2	5	12	7	4	8	19	3
3	Ukraine	4	2	2	8	2	3	3	8	6	5	5	16	4
4	Russia	3	2	2	7	2	1	1	4	5	3	3	11	5
5	Great Britain	2	6	4	12	2	5	1	8	4	11	5	20	2
6	United States	2		2	4	2	1	4	7	4	1	6	11	5
7	Germany	1	2	4	7	2	2		4	3	4	4	11	5
8	Canada	1	1		2	1	2	1	4	2	3	1	6	9
9	Brazil	2	1		3		1	2	3	2	2	2	6	9
10	Nigeria	1	2		3	1			1	2	2		4	12
11	Azerbaijan	1			1	1			1	2			2	21
12	Spain	1	2	1	4		2	4	6	1	4	5	10	8
13	New Zealand					1	2	2	5	1	2	2	5	11
14	Turkey		1		1	1	1	1	3	1	2	1	4	12
15	France	1	1	1	3			1	1	1	1	2	4	12
15	Netherlands	1			1		1	2	3	1	1	2	4	12
17	Italy			1	1	1	1		2	1	1	1	3	16
18	Egypt	1		2	3					1		2	3	16
19	Cuba			1	1	1			1	1		1	2	21
19	Denmark	1		1	2					1		1	2	21
19	Republic of Korea	1		1	2					1		1	2	21
19	South Africa			1	1	1			1	1		1	2	21
23	Belarus	1			1					1			1	29
23	Hungary	1			1					1			1	29
23	Ireland					1			1	1			1	29
23	Latvia	1			1					1			1	29
23	Morocco					1			1	1			1	29
23	MKD					1			1	1			1	29
23	Serbia	1			1					1			1	29
30	Czech Republic		2	1	3						2	1	3	16
30	Mexico		2	1	3						2	1	3	16
32	Argentina		1	1	2						1	1	2	21
32	Croatia		1	1	2						1	1	2	21
34	Norway						1		1		1		1	29
34	Poland						1		1		1		1	29
34	Sweden		1		1						1		1	29
34	Chinese Taipei						1		1		1		1	29
34	Tunisia						1		1		1		1	29
34	Uzbekistan		1		1						1		1	29
40	Algeria			3	3							3	3	16
41	Venezuela			2	2							2	2	21
42	Hong Kong, China			1	1							1	1	29
42	Iran							1	1			1	1	29
42	Israel							1	1			1	1	29
Total		37	37	41	115	31	31	35	97	68	68	76	212

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European cold spell kills hundreds

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:39:37 GMT

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Weather

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"Winter Tightens Icy Grip Across Europe" — Voice of America, February 8, 2012

"Deadly Cold Snap: European Deep Freeze Refuses to Relent" — Spiegel Online, February 7, 2012

"Europe’s deadly cold snap should ease from next week, UN agency says" — UN News Service, February 7, 2012

AFP. "Deadly cold snap 'to get worse'" — The Daily Telegraph (Australia), February 4, 2012

"Europe’s homeless dying in arctic conditions" — Euronews, February 3, 2012

"Cold weather death toll passes 100 in Ukraine" — BBC News Online, February 3, 2012

Laura Smith-Spark. "Europe's cold snap claims more lives" — CNN, February 3, 2012

"Cold snap takes heavy toll in Eastern Europe" — Deutsche Welle, February 3, 2012

"Homeless facing cold all over Europe" — Euronews, February 2, 2012

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For the current warnings across Europe see: Meteoalarm

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Azerbaijan win 2011 Eurovision Song Contest

Sun, 15 May 2011 13:57:51 GMT

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Eurovision Song Contest

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"Eurovision Song Contest 2011 Final" — Eurovision, May 14, 2011
"Azerbaijan wins the Eurovision Song Contest" — BBC News Online, May 15, 2011
"Winner's Press Conference: "We want to bring Europe together"" — Eurovision.tv, May 15, 2011
"Eurovision 2011: Semifinals results revealed" — ESC Today, May 15, 2011

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Europeans go to the polls to elect Members of the European Parliament

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:07:15 GMT

Monday, June 8, 2009

European Parliament logo

Over the course of the last four days, people across the European Union went to the polls to elect Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) as part of the European Parliament election, 2009. Voting began on Thursday in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and parts of Ireland. It continued on Friday across the rest of Ireland and parts of the Czech Republic. On Saturday the countries of Cyprus, France (for part of Outre-mer), Italy (day 1), Latvia, Malta, Slovakia and the Czech Republic all voted. On Sunday, the final day of polling, the remaing countries of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy (day 2), Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Sweden voted. Votes were released last night and will continue to be released over the course of today with the exception of Netherlands, which has broken rules and partialy released them on Friday.

The current President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering

The European Parliament is divided into constituencies, which have a group of representatives (the MEPs). Each constituency elects them proportionaly. The amount of MEPs representing a political party depends on the percentage of votes they gain. For example, if 50% of the electorate of a constituency vote for the x party then 50% of the MEPs in that constituency will be from the x party. In total there are 736 MEPs up for election by approximately 500,000,000 Europeans across 27 member states making it the largest transnational election in history.

The elections didn't quite go to plan across the Netherlands, as the European Commission have asked that Dutch officials give an explanation to results they released. As countries across Europe vote on different days, the results of the election can only be released on the last day (Sunday), so that the results in other countries will not influence the decission made by people in countries that are still voting. Despite this, the Netherlands released some of their results on Friday: 92% of the votes have currently been counted. Further controversy arose from the results themselves. Results so far show that far-right Dutch Member of Parliament, Geert Wilders's party the Party for Freedom (PVV), appears to have come second behind the Christian Democratic Appeal. Wilders is facing prosecution in the Netherlands for an anti Islamic statement and was refused entry to the United Kingdom on grounds of the intent to incite hatred.

It had initially been foreseen that the Treaty of Lisbon would have entered into force by the time of these elections, making them the first to be held under its provisions. However, primarily because of the failure of the referendum in Ireland, the framework established by the Treaty of Nice will be used again. Amongst other differences, the number of MEPs to be returned depends upon which rules are in effect: while 736 MEPs will be elected under the Nice rules, this number would have increased to 751 if the Lisbon Treaty were in force. A further change that Lisbon would have brought was an increase to the powers of Parliament, including powers over the appointment of the President of the European Commission.

In the previous election, German Hans-Gert Pöttering of the centre-right EPP-ED won with 34% and Martin Schulz of the Socialists came second with 26%. Despite this, during the last term the two leaders shared, each serving approximately two years in office.

European Parliament election, 2004 - Final results at 20 July 2004
Group		Description	Chaired by	MEPs
	EPP-ED	Conservatives and Christian Democrats	Hans-Gert Pöttering	268
	PES	Social Democrats	Martin Schulz	200
	ALDE	Liberals and Liberal Democrats	Graham Watson	88
	G–EFA	Greens and Regionalists	Daniel Cohn-Bendit Monica Frassoni	42
	EUL– NGL	Communists and the Far Left	Francis Wurtz	41
	ID	Eurosceptics	Jens-Peter Bonde Nigel Farage	37
	UEN	National Conservatives	Brian Crowley Cristiana Muscardini	27
	NI	Independents	none	29	Total: 732	Sources: [1][2][3][4][5]

Europeans have also been voting in local elections of County Councils in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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"United Kingdom elects first British National Party members of European Parliament" — Wikinews, June 8, 2009

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"Dutch far right in poll triumph" — BBC News Online, June 5, 2009
"Final round of marathon EU vote" — BBC News Online, June 7, 2009
"Voting in 19 EU states for Parliament" — RTÉ, June 7, 2009

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European Election results

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Ukranian ship MV Faina with cargo of tanks freed by pirates

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:52:25 GMT

Thursday, February 5, 2009

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"Somali pirates 'free arms ship'" — BBC News Online, February 5, 2009
"Somali pirates free Ukrainian ship: negotiator" — Reuters, February 5, 2009
"Tank ship pirates sack middlemen" — The Scotsman, January 16, 2009
"Pirates 'put down hostage revolt'" — BBC News Online, December 9, 2008
"Somali pirates invented story of attack by Faina crew - analyst" — RIA Novosti, December 9, 2008
"Pirates threaten to blow up ship" — BBC News Online, October 10, 2008
"Confusion looms over ownership of seized Ukrainian military cargo" — Xinhua, September 28, 2008
"Pirates Demand Ransom Of Millions" — Sky News, September 28, 2008

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Wikinews Shorts: January 13, 2009

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:23:35 GMT

A compilation of brief news reports for Tuesday, January 13, 2009 .

1 Anti-government protests in Riga, Latvia cause riots
2 Obama will close Guantanamo Bay in his first week say advisers
3 Greek shipping magnate kidnapped in Athens
4 Microsoft permits additional Windows 7 beta downloads
5 Cristiano Ronaldo crowned Footballer of the Year
6 Change of mind: Democrats accept Burris
7 Obama inauguration to appear in Lego form

Anti-government protests in Riga, Latvia cause riots[edit]

Saeima, the parliament
Image: Xil.

Protests by an opposition organization 'Different Politics' (Cita Politika) drew ten thousand people in Riga, Latvia today. After the official protest demonstration was over, around a thousand people roamed the old city center protesting and taunting police. There were reports of many broken windows and a liquor store was demolished and robbed before the police could arrive in sufficient force to stop looting. Around 19:00 several hundred protesters tried to forcefully enter the Latvian Parliament building, but were stopped by riot police arriving at the scene. After more than a half an hour of police being pelted by bricks and bottles, tear gas and brute force was used to take control of the area. For the following hour pockets of violence were squashed over the whole of Old Riga. Rioters dispersed when police reinforcements arrived.

Around a hundred people were arrested, two police vehicles were destroyed, thirty people have been treated for wounds and a large number of windows are broken.

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Multiple. "Vardarbrība Vecrīgā ir beigusies papildināta plkst.23.10 (Violence in Old Riga finally over)" — TVNET, January 13, 2009 (Latvian)
Baiba Rulle. "Ziņo Baiba Rulle no Vecrīgas 23:05 (Mob rioting at the Ministry of Finance)" — Diena.lv, January 13, 2009 (Latvian)
Baiba Rulle. "VIDEO: grautiņš Vecrīgā (Mob rioting in Old Riga)" — Diena.lv, January 13, 2009 (Latvian)
Patrick Lannin and Jorgen Johan. "Latvian anti-government protest turns into riot" — Reuters, January 13, 2009
Press Association. "Latvia protesters clash with police" — Google News, January 13, 2009

Obama will close Guantanamo Bay in his first week say advisers[edit]

Obama and George W. Bush in the Oval Office on November 10, 2008.

President-elect of the United States Barack Obama will order the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp as soon as the first week of his Presidency. This is according to two sources close to the Obama transition team who spoke to Associated Press.

On Sunday, Obama told ABC's This Week: "It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize and we are going to get it done, but part of the challenge that you have is that you have a bunch of folks that have been detained, many of whom who may be very dangerous who have not been put on trial or have not gone through some adjudication."

Barack Obama is to be inaugurated on January, 20, 2009.

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Ed Henry. "Obama to close Guantanamo Bay prison quickly" — CNN, January 12, 2009
Ewen MacAskill. "Obama to issue order to close Guantánamo in first week as president" — guardian.co.uk, January 12, 2009

Greek shipping magnate kidnapped in Athens[edit]

Superfast Ferries' Superfast XI bound for Ancona passes Kefalonia island (file photo).
Image: linz ellinas.

Pericles Panagopoulos, the president of Greek ferry operator Attica Group, which runs Superfast Ferries, was abducted near his home in Athens on Monday by three men armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, as he was being driven to work in a coastal suburb. No injuries have been reported in the incident, which is being investigated by counter-terrorism police.

"Panagopoulos and his driver were stopped and forced into another car by three gun-wielding assailants," a police source told Reuters. "The driver was then set free and subsequently informed the police of the event."

Sources

"Shipping magnate seized in Greece" — BBC News Online, January 12, 2009
John Carr. "Armed gang kidnaps Greek shipping tycoon Pericles Panagopoulos" — The Times, January 12, 2009
George Hatzidakis. "Prominent Greek ship owner abducted by armed men" — Reuters, January 12, 2009

Microsoft permits additional Windows 7 beta downloads[edit]

Window 7 logo.
Image: Microsoft.

Microsoft announced on Monday that it will allow users to continue to download the beta version of its Windows 7 computer operating system until January 24.

The beta release was originally scheduled to begin on January 9, but delayed until the day after. Due to heavy demand Microsoft eliminated the limitation of 2.5 million downloads.

"Assuming Windows 7 has all the benefits of Vista, has all the new features being promised, and is as stable as XP, I think many, many customers will be ready to finally start transitioning to a new Microsoft operating system," said Todd Swank of Minnesota-based NorTech to ChannelWeb.

Sources

Franklin Paul. "Microsoft resumes Windows 7 test downloads" — Reuters, January 12, 2009
Kevin McLaughlin. "Microsoft Offers Unlimited Windows 7 Downloads" — ChannelWeb, January 12, 2009

Cristiano Ronaldo crowned Footballer of the Year[edit]

Ronaldo in 2006
Image: Austin Osuide.

In last night's global award ceremony for soccer, Cristiano Ronaldo became the men's FIFA World Player of the Year 2008. He bested Argentinian Lionel Messi and Spaniard Fernando Torres who took second and third places.

Ronaldo is the second Portuguese player to win the award. The award was first given in 1991, and in 2001 Luis Figo became the first player from Portugal to win it.

Ronaldo plays for English Premiership club Manchester United. Brazilian player Marta Vieira da Silva won the Women's World Player of the Year Award for the third year in a row.

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"Cristiano Ronaldo Crowned FIFA World Player Of The Year" — Goal.com, January 13, 2009
Agence-France Presse. "Cristiano Ronaldo wins FIFA World Footballer of the Year" — Yahoo! News, January 13, 2009

Change of mind: Democrats accept Burris[edit]

Burris, photographed last week
Image: Josh Jackson.

Six days after refusing to seat troubled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's choice to replace President-elect Barack Obama, Democrats in the United States Senate reversed their decision Monday, and will now allow Roland Burris to join them.

Burris, a former Illinois Attorney General and Treasurer, is expected to be seated next week, barring any unexpected objections from Senate Republicans.

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Z. Byron Wolf, Jonathan Karl, Kate Barrett. "U.S. Senate Will Seat Roland Burris" — ABC News, January 12, 2009
Huma Khan. "Scandal-Plagued Blagojevich Taps Roland Burris for Barack Obama's Senate Seat" — ABC News, January 12, 2009
Thomas Ferraro. "Burris approved for Obama's old Senate seat" — Reuters, January 12, 2009

Obama inauguration to appear in Lego form[edit]

File:LegolandCaliforniaUSCapitol.jpg

The model of the US Capitol, where the display will be built.
Image: Isaac Crumm.

President-elect Barack Obama is being added to the U.S. Capitol Building diorama in the Miniland section of Legoland California.

From January 16 until Memorial Day in May, Obama's inauguration will be displayed on the steps of the block-made model. To be visible to viewers at the park, the Lego inauguration will be held on the front steps, instead of the back.

Other figures in the scene will be Michelle Obama and their children, Joe Biden, President George W. Bush and wife Laura, Dick Cheney, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Senator Dianne Feinstein, pastor Rick Warren, violinist Itzhak Perlman, and the US Marine Corps Band.

Among the onlookers in the scene will be a Lego Oprah Winfrey.

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Diane Bell. "Legoland's Miniland gets a presidential makeover" — San Diego Union-Tribune, January 13, 2009
Robert Niles. "Obama's Inauguration, in Legos" — Theme Park Insider, January 12, 2009

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Latvian government takes majority stake in Parex Bank

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:23:37 GMT

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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Yesterday, Latvia's government took over Parex Bank, the second largest bank in Latvia. A 51% stake in the bank was taken for a nominal fee. Control of the bank is to be passed to Latvijas Hipotēku Banka (Mortgage and Land Bank), which is state-controlled.

The deal was first announced on Saturday, and an agreement was signed yesterday. The arrangement reflects similar bank takeovers by other governments across the world, in response to the current banking crisis. A Reuters report yesterday quoted board member Liga Purina as saying that withdrawals are above average, though there are few queues.

The action comes in the wake of Parex admitting to financial difficulties. Until this move, the biggest shareholders were the chairman, Valērijs Kargins, and Viktors Krasovickis. Parex Bank operates in 14 countries, including Sweden, Estonia and Germany, and is the largest locally-owned Latvian bank.

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Agence France Presse. "Latvia takes control of country's second-largest bank" — Google, November 9, 2008
Patrick Lannin. "UPDATE 1-Latvia says bank ops normal, withdrawals continue" — Reuters, November 10, 2008
"Valsts pārņem 'Parex Bankas' kontrolpaketi" — Delfi, November 8, 2008 (Latvian)
Leta. "Valsts pārņems "Parex bankas" akciju kontrolpaketi" — Financenet, November 8, 2008 (Latvian)

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Sarkozy ends French job ban for Eastern Europeans

Thu, 29 May 2008 12:07:27 GMT

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Nicolas Sarkozy at the Charlemagne Prize ceremony in 2008.
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During a one-day visit to Warsaw on Tuesday French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that his country would lift job restrictions on the citizens of some of the European Union's former communist states. He also promised a deal aimed at bringing Ukraine closer to the bloc but seemed to play down its chances of membership.

France was part of a majority of EU states that imposed employment restrictions on citizens of Poland and other countries that joined the European Union in 2004. The limits now in place for workers from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia will be lifted on July 1. However, jobs in France will remain restricted for workers from Romania and Bulgaria, which joined the EU in 2007.

"I am going to announce this during my speech in Parliament," Sarkozy said when asked about media reports on the matter. "Poland is one of the six great countries of Europe. The EU is based on the free movement of people. Poland is also our strategic partner." Of "old EU" member states, only Austria, Belgium, Denmark and Germany now maintain the ban. Norway and Liechtenstein – non-EU countries that are part of the European Economic Area – also restrict access to their job markets for citizens of the countries that joined the union in 2004. Switzerland, which has bilateral agreements with the EU on free movement of people, also restricts employment for those countries. Under EU law, these restrictions must be lifted by 2011.

Sarkozy also told a joint news conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday that Ukraine would be offered closer cooperation with the European Union during a French presidency of the bloc, which starts on July 1, but said Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko told him that Ukraine did not want to join the EU outright.

"I've met with the president of Ukraine and his objective is not membership, rather closer cooperation on various levels. I will have opportunities to make such proposals," he said.

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"Sarkozy Ends French Job Ban" — New Warsaw Express, May 29, 2008
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Dima Bilan wins the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest for Russia

Sun, 25 May 2008 12:56:47 GMT

Sunday, May 25, 2008

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"Medvedev, Putin congratulate Bilan on Eurovision win: "One more triumph for all Russia"" — International Herald Tribune, May 25, 2008
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"TERÄSBETONI Places 22nd In EUROVISION Finals" — Blabbermouth.net, May 25, 2008
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"Sweden tipped to win Eurovision" — BBC News Online, May 20, 2008

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Anti-government protests in Riga, Latvia cause riots[edit]

Obama will close Guantanamo Bay in his first week say advisers[edit]

Greek shipping magnate kidnapped in Athens[edit]

Microsoft permits additional Windows 7 beta downloads[edit]

Cristiano Ronaldo crowned Footballer of the Year[edit]

Change of mind: Democrats accept Burris[edit]

Obama inauguration to appear in Lego form[edit]

Latvian government takes majority stake in Parex Bank

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Sarkozy ends French job ban for Eastern Europeans

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