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Every day brings the bankruptcy of Greece and its exclusion from the eurozone a step closer, with incalculable consequences for the European and global financial system.

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault unveiled France’s new interim government yesterday.

The Quebec Liberal government introduces emergency legislation aimed at breaking the 14-week student strike.

Two British soldiers were shot dead last week by Afghan policemen, the latest in a rising tide of “green-on-blue” attacks on foreign forces in Afghanistan by supposed allies in the more than decade-long occupation and counterinsurgency.

Several days of clashes in and around Tripoli between Sunni Islamists and Alawites have left 10 people dead, 50 wounded and several kidnapped.

A federal district court judge in New York City issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday barring enforcement of a section of the National Defense Authorization Act that permits the US president to order indefinite military detention of any individual he designates as associated with terrorism.

Oklahoma and Tennessee join a growing list of states that will require drug testing of welfare applicants.

As part of the whitewashing of police violence against student protesters, the UC system has released a shallow and hypocritical report on how campus police should respond to demonstrations.

Budget cuts to legal defense programs have fundamentally undermined the constitutional right of the poor to adequate counsel.

As escalating price increases impact on Sri Lanka workers, the banks and other major corporations are amassing huge profits.

General Motors and the company’s European trade unions are preparing the next round of cuts at its European subsidiaries—Opel and Vauxhall.

While publicly insisting that it is only providing “non-lethal” aid to elements seeking the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria, Washington is coordinating the shipment of arms into the country and working to expand the deadly conflict.

In just four trading days since JPMorgan Chase’s announcement of massive losses in derivatives trading, the estimated toll has risen from $2 billion to more than $3 billion.

The Socialist Equality Party opposes the uncontrolled application of hydraulic fracturing by private corporations whose sole aim is the maximization of profits at any cost.

Biographer Dan Callahan makes a convincing case for finding the source of Barbara Stanwyck’s acting style and depth in her childhood and adolescence. His analyses of her performances are highly observant and passionately written.

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Missile strikes by US drones claimed the lives of at least a dozen civilians in Yemen’s southern Abyan province Tuesday.

The failure of efforts to form a government with a working majority after May 6 elections in Greece has intensified the crisis in Europe.