EU leaders are anticipating a dinner on Thursday night with a very heavy course: relations with Turkey. They are expected to ask for the preparation of additional sanctions against the country, following an earlier decision at a meeting in October. But it won’t be easy to agree how far to go. The latest draft text […]
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A tough course to digest: EU leaders ponder Turkey sanctions over dinner
New NASA find suggests Mars resembles Earth more than previously thought
READ MORE: NASA: Unexpected discovery on Mars may revolutionize planet’s history “The only ways on Earth that we know how to make these manganese materials involve atmospheric oxygen or microbes,” said Nina Lanza, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, while commenting on the potentially groundbreaking discovery. The researchers point out that, […]
Swiss Ponder Battle Over Runaway Franc
Simone MeierBloomberg August 16, 2011 Switzerland, the nation that hasn’t gone to war with a foreign power since Napoleon, is reluctantly debating a generational taboo: ceding monetary independence to win a battle over its runaway currency. Swiss National Bank Vice President Thomas Jordan said the central bank is assessing “a whole range of options” […]