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- Greece condemns far-right party's Holocaust denial
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's government and Jewish community on Monday condemned the leader of a far-right party for saying there were no gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps. Nikolaos Mihaloliakos, whose Golden Dawn party became potential kingmakers after an inconclusive election on May 6, also challenged the view that six million Jews were killed in World War Two. "There were no ovens, this is a lie ... there were no gas chambers either," Mihaloliakos said on Sunday in an interview on the private Mega television station. ...
- Sacha Cohen's movie a minstrel show
Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie, "The Dictator," is a modern-day minstrel show judging from the trailer and Cohen's comments promoting the film while dressed as the film's star, "Gen. Shabazz Aladeen," the leader of a fictitious Arab country.
- Sematech expects continued growth in 2012
Fifty companies participated in Sematech programs in 2011, according to Sematech’s just released annual report.
“2011 was a year of new growth and new connections for Sematech as we continued to push the envelope of creative collaboration,” said Dan Armbrust, president and CEO of Sematech, in the report.
Sematech is a consortium of computer-chip manufacturers based at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany, New York.
In 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy awarding Sematech...
- Laos extradites suspect to China in Mekong massacre case
BEIJING (Reuters) - Laos on Thursday handed over the suspected leader of a drug gang accused of killing 13 members of Chinese boat crews on a lawless stretch of the Mekong River, an incident that caused Beijing to send gunboat patrols to the region downstream from its borders. Naw Kham, a Burmese man in his 40s notorious for his role in suspected drug smuggling in the "Golden Triangle" region where the borders of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos meet, was handed over to China, state-run news agency Xinhua said. ...
- Greek media accuse far-right party of bullying
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek journalists on Tuesday accused the ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn party of intimidation after they became the first far-right group to enter parliament since military dictatorship ended. At a news conference after securing 7 percent of the vote on Sunday, Golden Dawn members ordered journalists to stand to attention for party leader Nikolaos Mihaloliakos. Many journalists left the room in protest. Mihaloliakos also marched down the street on Sunday flanked by muscular men with shaved heads and tight t-shirts, and yelling "liars!" at the foreign journalists following ...
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An Israeli company has written off its entire 12.5 percent investment in the company that sold Egyptian natural gas to Israel before Egypt terminated the exports.
The European Union observer mission has called Algeria's parliamentary elections an important step toward reform.
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