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Banon alleged sexual assault case against Strauss-Kahn dropped

  By RFI French prosecutors have dropped the sexual assault case brought against former IMF chief Dominque Strauss-Kahn by French writer Tristane Banon. They said they had prima facie evidence that a sexual assault took place, but the case was too old to prosecute. More:  http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/ 20111013-banon-alleged-sexual-assault-case-against-strauss-kahn-dropped  

Finance bosses meet in Berlin as bank-saving plans advance

  By RFI   The European Union is preparing coordinated action to prop up panic-stricken banks, as world financial chiefs meet in Berlin Thursday. Meanwhile, French and Belgian local authorities are locked in talks with governments and financial players over the crisis-hit Dexia bank. Details:http://www.english.rfi.fr/economy/20111006-finance-bosses-meet-berlin-bank-saving-plans-advance

Why men are in trouble

Editor’s note: William J. Bennett, a CNN contributor, is the author of “The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood.” Bennett is the Washington fellow of the Claremont Institute. He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 and was director of the Office of National Drug […]

Fear of an Islamic Planet

by JOHN FEFFER Foreign Policy in Focus. Institute of Policy Studies. It’s easy to make fun of Michele Bachmann: her history gaffes, her Christian extremism, her ludicrous political positions. Journalists, though, would be sad to see her leave the Republican primary race, since she can be reliably counted on to […]

Putin and Medvedev forever

If United Russia Party wins the parliamentary elections, and if opposition parties do not nominate a worthy candidate, then the country will have a new government and the new president during the upcoming six years. The intrigue with the presidential election in Russia has been unveiled. The scenarios of election […]

Strauss-Kahn faces French sex assault accuser

France 24.   In the first face-to-face encounter since his May 14 arrest in New York, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is Thursday set to face Tristane Banon (right), a French writer who has accused the former IMF chief of attempted rape in 2003. Details.  http://www.france24.com/en/20110929-strauss-kahn-french-writer-sex-assault-accuser-tristane-banon-justice-paris-france