Francois Hollande has been elected president of France, the country’s first Socialist leader in nearly two decades. Addressing jubilant supporters in the French capital, Paris, he called for a change in Europe’s austerity direction. Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons reports.
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The Chen Guangcheng Controversy: Human Rights Denied In China
The blind Chinese dissident who boldly fled house arrest and placed himself under the wing of US diplomats balked Wednesday at a deal delicately worked out between the two countries to let him live freely in China, saying he now fears for his family’s safety unless they are all spirited abroad. (via the AP) Read [...]