The potential European holiday destinations for diehard British puffers looking to escape the smoking ban are dwindling in number.
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/ 5 September 2006
As the entry of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union edges closer, the condescension towards Eastern Europeans and their countries of origin grows. The double standards could not be more glaring. Bulgaria and Romania are routinely portrayed as backward, mafia-ridden hellholes that will infect the rest of the continent.
Iran’s new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is one. So are Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. These men, we are told by CNN, the Wall Street Journal and the London Financial Times, are "hardliners". But what exactly is a hardliner — and why are some world leaders hardliners and others not?
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/ 29 September 2004
Many will not need to be convinced of the link between United States corporations now helping themselves to Iraqi state assets and the military machine that prised Iraq open for global business. But what is less widely known is that a similar process is well under way in a part of the world where B52s were not so long ago dropping bombs in another ”liberation” mission.