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NewsvineSarkozy's Crisis: A Weary French President Battons Down Hatches for Tough Regional Elections
Spiegel Online : International: 1 day ago
He's unpopular, he's isolated and he has made enemies within his own party. President Nicolas Sarkozy is having trouble finding any success. Regional elections across the country threaten to turn into a debacle for the French leader's conservative ... ...read article
He's unpopular, he's isolated and he has made enemies within his own party. President Nicolas Sarkozy is having trouble finding any success. Regional elections across the country threaten to turn into a debacle for the French leader's conservative ... ...read article
Sarkozy's Crisis: A Weary French President Battons Down Hatchets for Tough Regional Elections
Spiegel Online : International: 2 days ago
He's unpopular, he's isolated and he has made enemies within his own party. President Nicolas Sarkozy is having trouble finding any success. Regional elections across the country threaten to turn into a debacle for the French leader's conservative ... ...read article
He's unpopular, he's isolated and he has made enemies within his own party. President Nicolas Sarkozy is having trouble finding any success. Regional elections across the country threaten to turn into a debacle for the French leader's conservative ... ...read article
Reconstruction of a Mass Hysteria: The Swine Flu Panic of 2009
Spiegel Online : International: 2 days ago
Swine flu kept the world in suspense for almost a year. A massive vaccination campaign was mounted to put a stop to the anticipated pandemic. But, as it turned out, it was a relatively harmless strain of the flu virus. How, and why, did the world ... ...read article
Swine flu kept the world in suspense for almost a year. A massive vaccination campaign was mounted to put a stop to the anticipated pandemic. But, as it turned out, it was a relatively harmless strain of the flu virus. How, and why, did the world ... ...read article
Killer App: Drones Are Lynchpin of Obama's War on Terror
Spiegel Online : International: 2 days ago
CIA drones are killing terrorists -- and civilians -- in Pakistan almost every day. The unmanned aircraft are becoming the weapon of choice in the fight against al-Qaida and its allies. But the political, military and moral consequences are ... ...read article
CIA drones are killing terrorists -- and civilians -- in Pakistan almost every day. The unmanned aircraft are becoming the weapon of choice in the fight against al-Qaida and its allies. But the political, military and moral consequences are ... ...read article
Remote Warriors: How Drone Pilots Wage War
Spiegel Online : International: 2 days ago
Drone pilots sit in air-conditioned rooms far away from the anti-terror wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They guide their weapons systems with joysticks and monitors. The remote warriors work with a high degree of precision -- and at a fraction of the ... ...read article
Drone pilots sit in air-conditioned rooms far away from the anti-terror wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They guide their weapons systems with joysticks and monitors. The remote warriors work with a high degree of precision -- and at a fraction of the ... ...read article
The Debate on Push-Button War: Are Drones Worth Their Drawbacks?
Spiegel Online : International: 2 days ago
Although the United States' drone war has succeeded in killing a number of terrorist leaders, many worry that the price in civilian casualties is too high and its ultimate effectiveness too illusory. But that isn't stopping the Obama administration ... ...read article
Although the United States' drone war has succeeded in killing a number of terrorist leaders, many worry that the price in civilian casualties is too high and its ultimate effectiveness too illusory. But that isn't stopping the Obama administration ... ...read article
'Finger of God': The German Army's Enthusiasm for Drones
Spiegel Online : International: 2 days ago
For a long time the German army in Afghanistan only used drones to spy on the Taliban. But since German officers experienced their potentially lethal impact in a strike last year, they have been enthusiastic about these silent, airborne weapons. ...read article
For a long time the German army in Afghanistan only used drones to spy on the Taliban. But since German officers experienced their potentially lethal impact in a strike last year, they have been enthusiastic about these silent, airborne weapons. ...read article
Interview with a Drone Pilot: 'It Is Not a Video Game'
Spiegel Online : International: 2 days ago
US Major Bryan Callahan is a pilot. But while he sits in front of a monitor in America, his plane is flying over Afghanistan. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, he speaks about what flying drones is like, the difficulties of waging war in shifts ... ...read article
US Major Bryan Callahan is a pilot. But while he sits in front of a monitor in America, his plane is flying over Afghanistan. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, he speaks about what flying drones is like, the difficulties of waging war in shifts ... ...read article
Interview with Defense Expert P.W. Singer: 'The Soldiers Call It War Porn'
Spiegel Online : International: 2 days ago
US defense expert P.W. Singer from the Brookings Institution talks to SPIEGEL ONLINE about the stresses that drone pilots are subjected to and the risk of emotional exhaustion and burnout. The whole experience of war is being changed by the new ... ...read article
US defense expert P.W. Singer from the Brookings Institution talks to SPIEGEL ONLINE about the stresses that drone pilots are subjected to and the risk of emotional exhaustion and burnout. The whole experience of war is being changed by the new ... ...read article
The World From Berlin: 'There is No Alternative' to the Euro
Spiegel Online : International: 2 days ago
Another general strike in Greece shut the financially beleaguered nation down on Thursday. But German commentators see a glimmer of hope, and now nobody -- including Germany's finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble -- believes there is any danger to ... ...read article
Another general strike in Greece shut the financially beleaguered nation down on Thursday. But German commentators see a glimmer of hope, and now nobody -- including Germany's finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble -- believes there is any danger to ... ...read article
Germany's Catholic Private School Abuse Scandal: 'The Church Is Not a Criminal Organization'
Spiegel Online : International: 2 days ago
Accusations of abuse have been reported in 20 of 27 German Catholic dioceses. Has abuse of children become systematic? In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, Johannes Siebner, director of the College St. Blasien, discusses failures of the Church in dealing ... ...read article
Accusations of abuse have been reported in 20 of 27 German Catholic dioceses. Has abuse of children become systematic? In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, Johannes Siebner, director of the College St. Blasien, discusses failures of the Church in dealing ... ...read article
Waiting for the Rain: Haiti's Next Disaster Looms
Spiegel Online : International: 3 days ago
Only weeks after the country was hit by an earthquake, Haiti is threatened by the next potential calamity. The upcoming rainy season could turn overcrowded refugee camps into hotbeds of disease. And there has been criticism of the local government ... ...read article
Only weeks after the country was hit by an earthquake, Haiti is threatened by the next potential calamity. The upcoming rainy season could turn overcrowded refugee camps into hotbeds of disease. And there has been criticism of the local government ... ...read article