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The fashion magazine Vogue Italia has come under fire over its use of a U.S drug and rehabilitation centre in an editorial fashion spread.
Its July edition featured models being dragged along the floor of an institution by attendants in white coats. … Read More »
New writer Susie Lipscomb – see self-portrait for EUAustralia — likes to experiment with her camera to see what it can do. … Read More »
After warming up awareness of climate change this Northern Summer with its no-clothes demonstration in the Swiss Alps (picture), the Greenpeace organisation this week launched a fresh move on GMOs.
Greenpeace has put a legal submission to the European Commission (28.8.07) challenging its move to over-rule a new Polish law that would block the production of genetically-altered products. … Read More »
COMMENTARY: Winding up of the holiday month and the rentree brings signs of arousal on the political front, with decisions projected on Iran, Turkey and the IMF.
The new President of France Nicolas Sarkozy remains under the microscope, observers looking to see what new directions he might try to set. … Read More »
COMMENTARY: The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists has expressed satisfaction at news of arrests being made in connection with the murder of Anna Politkovskaya in Russia — while demanding to know more. … Read More »
OPINION:
If there is one thing that can cut Germany to the quick, then it’s far-right political extremism.
On 18-19.8.07 racist attacks in two small towns in both East and West Germany have disgusted the country, says our German writer Nina Plonka: … Read More »
The new outbreak of forest fires in Greece has taken a nasty turn with fifty people reported killed over the weekend. … Read More »