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Cyril VANIER
financial crisis - New York - unemployment - US economy - USA
New York's slow recovery
New Yorkers are used to working hard. But with unemployment nearly doubling over the last year, many find they’re working harder than ever to keep their job, or just to find one.
HEALTHCARE REFORM
Being sick in America
The United States is the only country in the industrialised world without universal health coverage. The result: 47 million Americans are uninsured. If they fall ill, they can count on no one but themselves.
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Communist parties - Moldova - political crisis - Russian politics - unrest
Storm brewing in Moldova
The political crisis in Moldova is bubbling over into a diplomatic feud with Romania. What's behind the unrest? We talk to George Frederick Jewsbury, a researcher at CERCEC.
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MADAGASCAR
Madagascar: ask our correspondents
Andry Rajoelina, former mayor of Madagascar's capital, has been confirmed as acting president, replacing his political rival Marc Ravalomanana. FRANCE 24’s Cyril Vanier (pictured) and Virginie Herz answer readers’ questions about the situation.
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Afghanistan - insurgency - NATO - Taliban
Troop surge in Afghanistan: Will it work?
Seven years after international forces toppled the Taliban regime, the insurgency is going from strength to strength. Does Afghanistan need more soldiers…or an entirely different strategy?
Caroline Kennedy - Edward Kennedy
Kennedy: dynastic politics?
Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is making her debut in politics. Is she fit for the job or is she using her family name to leap-frog into the Senate?
climate change
Crisis chills climate change talks
Delegates from all over the world will be at the United Nations environmental conference in Poland for the next two weeks to begin negotiations on a new treaty on climate change.
India - Mumbai attacks - Pakistan
Mumbai: a Pakistani connection?
Pranab Mukherjee, India's foreign minister, has said that: "Pakistani groups are responsible" for the attacks in Mumbai. So, is Pakistan to blame?
India - Mumbai attacks - Pakistan
Mumbai: India suspects Pakistan
India says foreign groups had a hand in the Mumbai attack. What does this mean for India-Pakistan ties? Are we on the verge of another crisis?
economy - rescue
EU eases its stability pact
Europe unveils today its economic rescue plan. It will allow countries to have a bigger public deficit than was authorized by the 1997 Stability and Growth Pact.
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