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COMMENTARY: Shock and distaste has followed the revelation, 7.2.13, of widespread doping in Australian sport with penetration by organised crime. … Read More »
A tug-o-war is under way at the new year’s first European Union summit, in Brussels, over how many Euros to allocate in the forthcoming seven-year budget of the EU. … Read More »
The vote in Britain’s House of Commons, 5.2.13, 400-175, supporting the right of same-sex couples to marry, was the first step in a legislative process that must include a debate in the unelected House of Lords. … Read More »
Voting is getting under way early in this month’s Italian elections (24-25.2.13), at the opposite end of the Earth.
Expatriate Italians vote in large overseas constituencies, and among the biggest is the zone designated Asia-Australia-Antarctica, taking in 117000 Italians who are registered in Australia. … Read More »
The Europol police agency has sourced a betting ring engaged in massive Football match-fixing, to a Singapore-based gambling cartel, with Russian participants and European “facilitatorsâ€. … Read More »
The skeleton found under a Leicester car park, in England, has been identified “beyond reasonable doubt†as that of King Richard III.
The man was killed in a civil war battle close to the city in 1485, and buried by monks at a church that was later demolished, during the religious purges of Henry VIII. … Read More »
 
On the weekend: Vice President Joe Biden said at Munich, 2.2.13, that Europe remained America’s first concern, outside its own borders; President Francois Hollande was away, in Timbuktu, receiving thanks for French intervention in the fighting in Mali; and Queen Juliana, abdicating, promised her many admirers she was not giving in to the burdens of life. … Read More »