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By Barnaby Phillips in Europe on November 13th, 2010
Greek students have been holding regular protests against planned education reforms and government austerity measures [AFP]

I spent one day last week interviewing young Greeks who are desperate to leave this country. The two women whom I met in Athens  are intelligent  graduates, in their twenties, looking to launch their careers.

They speak six languages between them. But in this recession-hit economy, they see no prospects. Their pessimism is understandable; new figures show that unemployment for Greeks in their early 20s has reached an appalling 30.8 per cent. The women I met have come of age at just the wrong time, and are now planning to go elsewhere in Europe.

In fact, by the time you read this, one of them will already be in Sweden, looking for work there.

But Greece is full of ironies. Because just the following day, I was up on the Greek-Turkish border, with an EU police force struggling to control the flow of illegal migrants who are desperately trying to get into this country.

By Alan Fisher in Europe on September 16th, 2010
Benedict celebrated Mass on Thursday in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park [AFP photo]

 
They came in their tens of thousands - for a while the scandals, the controversies the arguments forgotten.
 
In the warm early autumn sunshine – unseasonably nice for Glasgow - they waited patiently for the man they all want to see.
 
It's a curious mix. One of our team said it felt like a music festival, with the strains of the organ rising above the general chatter of an excited crowd.
 
With the flags and the smell of burgers hanging in the air, the vendors pushing their programmes, to me it felt more like a football match.
 
Looking across the crowd – and there are easily 60,000 here, there are flags from Spain and France, from Ireland and Sweden, from Denmark and even India.
 
And there are the flags of the Vatican City, the world's smallest nation and of course, the white cross on the blue background, the Scottish Saltire.
 

By Gregg Carlstrom in Middle East on May 31st, 2010
Protesters in Istanbul wave Palestinian flags after the raid (Photo: AFP)

Early Monday morning, Israel attacked a flotilla of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip; up to 10 people were killed in the pre-dawn raid, according to organisers and media sources.

We'll be live-blogging the aftermath of this incident throughout the day; keep checking back for international reaction, news from our correspondents on the ground, photos and video. (All times are GMT, except where noted.)

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By Nour Odeh in Middle East on November 17th, 2009

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Palestinians are getting ready for the biggest diplomatic battle of their recent history. This is becoming apparent, in light of the high-tone of political statements exchanged by Palestinian, Israeli, and other officials.

Senior Palestinian officials have announced that they intend to go to the United Nations Security Council and secure a resolution recognizing a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Such a resolution would by no means change the rules of the game or the already accepted terms of a resolution to the conflict, Palestinians argue.

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