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French Socialist party member and Lille mayor Martine Aubry, left, speaks to reporters after she cast her ballot, as French Socialists choose a new leader Friday Nov. 21, 2008 in Lille, northern France. French Socialists were choosingbetween two women to become party leader, with the winner facing the task of remolding the splintered party to take on President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012. Vying for the job are ex-presidential candidate Segolene Royal and lawmaker Au

Aubry wins French Socialist battle by tiny margin

Canada Dot Com

PARIS - Martine Aubry, the architect of France's 35-hour work week, has won a ballot for the leadership of the opposition Socialists by the tiny margin of 42 votes, the party said in a statement early on Saturday. Supporters of her arch rival Segolene Royal immediately contested the result and demanded a rerun, raising the prospect of prolonged...

photo: AP / Michel Spingler

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How to get out of the mess in Afghanistan

International Herald Tribune

Afghanistan's swift unraveling has created new - and in some quarters unrealistic -...

Patients' secrets will still be safe under the new NHS constitution

The Guardian

You report that the new NHS constitution would allow researchers for the first time to write to...

Car industry bail-out: how Detroit took wrong road

The Guardian

The once mighty US car industry had been in decline long before the financial crisis led to the...

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DR Congo appeals for Angola support

Internally displaced Congoleses wait for food distribution in Kibati, outside Goma, eastern Congo, Friday Nov. 21, 2008. The UN refugee agency has had to suspend plans to move about 67,000 refugees who have overrun the village just north of Goma in recent wee

Al Jazeera

Joseph Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has travelled to Angola to gain support from Jose Eduardo dos Santos, his counterpart, over the conflict with rebels in the east of the country. A statement made after the two leaders...

photo: AP / Jerome Delay

Bush and Hu meet at Apec summit

U.S. President George W. Bush and President Hu Jintao of China shake hands before their meeting at the APEC Summit in Lima, Peru, Friday, Nov. 21,

BBC News

US President George W Bush has met his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Peru on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific economic summit. The two discussed North Korea's nuclear programme and the global financial crisis, a White House spokeswoman said....

photo: AP / Lawrence Jackson

Chávez faces test in regional elections

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves to supporters as he enters the National Assembly for his annual state-of-the-nation address in Caracas

The Guardian

President Hugo Chávez faces an important test of his self-styled socialist revolution tomorrow when Venezuelans vote in regional and local polls after a tumultuous election campaign. Opinion polls suggest a resurgent opposition could win...

photo: AP / Howard Yanes

Solana hopes EU Kosovo mission deployed early December

International Herald Tribune

By Louis Charbonneau European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Friday he hoped a new EU justice and police mission would be deployed in Kosovo by early December. In February, the EU agreed to send the mission, known as...

photo: UNMIK/DPI

GM Tries Taxpayers, After Exhausting Private Sector

Wall Street Journal

General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner's case for a taxpayer handout to his firm is a lemon ("Why GM Deserves Support," op-ed, Nov. 19). The bulk of it is annual report-style bragging about GM's wondrous innovations at lowering costs and improving product...

photo: WN / James

Gates Calls for More Troops Ahead of Afghan Elections

An Afghan military officer stands guard at a checkpoint near a poster of President Hamid Karzai which says "We want peace and national unity in all over of our dear country" in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 1, 2004. Afghan forces and NATO troops have mounted extra patrols and roadblocks since unidentified armed men on Thursday kidnapped Filipino diplomat Angelito Nayan, and two women - Kosovan Shqipe Habibi and Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland. All work for a joint U.N.-Afghan commission overseeing landmark presidential elect

Voa News

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he wants additional troops in place ahead of Afghanistan's national elections set for next year. Gates also says the United States wants to move at least four combat brigades each having 3,500 to 5,000...

photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti