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Hrdlicka Dead: Austrian Artist Dies

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 12.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Hrdlicka Paintings, Hrdlicka Dies, Art, Austria, Memorial Against War and Fascism, Sculpture, Artist, Hrdlicka Dead, Vienna, Alfred Hrdlicka, Home News

VIENNA — Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka, whose controversial works in metal, paint and pencil alienated as much as attracted the public died Sa...

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Vienna Declaration: Press Freedom and Security Compatible in Fight Against Terrorism

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media

Read More: International Federation of Journalists, First Amendment, Human Rights Watch, Pakistan, United Nations, World Press Freedom Committee, Lebanon, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Media, Jakarta Post, London, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Indonesia, Salzburg, Maharat Foundation, Committee to Protect Journalists, Austria, Vienna, Center for International Legal Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Article 19, Geo TV, Germany, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, University of Vienna, BBC World News, International Press Institute, Al Jazeera International, Der Standard, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Freedom of Expression, The Muslim Council of Britain, ZDF German Television, Terrorism, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Mainz, Orf, Media News

Security and press freedom can coexist, with the free flow of information recognized as the best weapon against terrorism, international media experts argued in a final declaration published this week.

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Steaming Up Irving Place: Typically unshaven Daily News real estate...

Curbed | Curbed | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home

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Typically unshaven Daily News real estate atom bomb Jason Sheftell has a huge piece on the glassy and new 57 Irving Place today, and he discovers th...

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Nursing a Memoir to Publication: Finding a Niche, Defining a Life

Monroe Price | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Yale University, Memoir, Vienna, Jewish, Yale, Holocaust, Refugees, Books News

When I wrote this book, Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams, there was a question of genre: Was this a Holocaust or refugee book?

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Iran TV: Tehran to respond to nuclear draft deal on Thursday

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home

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Iran's envoy to the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency will present Tehran's position on a draft nuclear fuel deal in Vienna on Thursday, the semi...

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Obama in the Thicket of "Afghaniranistan"

William Bradley | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Britain, Cia, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Mi-6, Nobel Peace Prize, Iaea, Mossad, Moscow, Tehran, Israel, Iraq, Vienna, Special Forces, Taliban, Sayeret, Al Qaeda, Revolutionary Guard, Iranian Nuclear Program, Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Soviet Union, Jihadism, Post-Soviet Space, Somalia, Cairo Address, John Kerry, World News

Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.

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The 3-minute video that may prove Iran's nuclear intentions

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.15.2009 | Home

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VIENNA - The last place you would expect to hear the apocalyptic soundtrack of the movie "Chariots of Fire" would be Iran. This 1981 film recou...

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Dollar loses punch and crude hits $75 at the close

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

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NEW YORK — Oil prices on Wednesday rose above $75 a barrel for the first time in a year because of a weak dollar and the belief that the upcoming holiday shopping season will bring more traffic to the roads.

Benchmark crude for November delivery added $1.03 to settle at $75.18 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The last time crude finished above $75 a barrel was Oct. 14, 2008, exactly one year ago.

Also helping to lift energy prices was the Dow Jones Industrials Average, which hit a new annual high and pushed past the 10,000 mark for the first time in more than a year.

Oil prices have wavered mostly between $50 and $70 a barrel since May with signs of an economic recovery emerging slowly. But a plunge in the dollar convinced many investors to pump money into crude and other commodities as a hedge against inflation.

Still, there are scant signs of definitive uptick in demand for fuel and refiners have been shutting down facilities for that reason.

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Who Works The Least? The French, According To UBS Study

Posted 09.19.2009 | Business

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Oslo, Copenhagen, Zurich, Geneva and Tokyo are more expensive than New York, according to a new study released Wednesday by UBS. The study analyzes...

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Top 10 Places I Want to Travel to Before I Die

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Top Ten List, Travel, Australia, Morocco, Austria, India, Czech Republic, Mongolia, Vienna, Prague, Jerusalem-Israel, Israel, Sydney-Australia, Living News

I am going to share my list of the top 10 places I want to go to before I die (in no particular order, although I hope dying comes last).

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Walter: Everywhere and Forever

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Paris, CBS News, Nairobi, Vienna, New York, Concorde, Walter Cronkite, Media News

My memories of Walter Cronkite are very precious. We met just over 30 years ago, when I was a junior correspondent in the Paris bureau of CBS News.

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Syria: New Uranium Traces Found, Says UN

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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VIENNA — The U.N nuclear agency on Friday reported its second unexplained find of uranium particles at a Syrian nuclear site, in a probe launche...

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OPEC Meets Pumping Billows of Hot Air While Curtailing Production of Oil

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Supertankers, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Oil Minister Al Naimi, Politcs, Sigmund Freud, Oil, Opec, Energy, Business, Vienna, Media, Sovereign-Wealth-Funds, Business News

The good nabobs of OPEC are going to Vienna to munch their strudel, lamenting about the urgency to push prices to the $75-80/bbl level before they can order a second course.

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Vienna: Sikh Preacher Dies After Temple Attack, Sparking Riots

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

VIENNA — Investigators believe a sermon at a Sikh temple set off an attack that saw worshippers use a frying pan and microphone stands to fend o...

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Bill Clinton's Viennese Ball

Sabine Heller | Posted 06.20.2009 | Style

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Life Ball, Bill Clinton, Clinton Global Initiative, Slideshow, Vienna Life Ball, Clinton Global Initiative AIDS, Fran Drescher, Bill Clinton AIDS, Maggie Rizer, Bill Clinton Life Ball, Austria, Vienna, Style News

After the concert, in typical Clintonian manner, the empathetic former president warmed the room by bowing to and hugging the lead violinist. The gathering focused attention on the real reason behind the celebration -- raising money for the fight against AIDS.

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Video: High 'barks' for pet friendly ER

MSNBC | MSNBC | Posted 06.11.2009 | Home

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May 11: Pet emergencies, like human ones, can happen outside regular office hours. NBC's Wendy Jones, visited one pet e-r in Vienna, Virgina. (Ni...

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The World In Photos: April 24, 2009

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, South Asia, Slideshow, Armenia Genocide Anniversary, Jacob Zuma South Africa, Armenia, South Africa, Jacob Zuma, Austria, Jerusalem, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Africa, Armenia Genocide, Vienna Austria, Europe, Vienna, World Photos, World News

Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

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Nuclear Energy Officials Look to Grow Past Financial Crisis

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.21.2009 | Home

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The head of the UN atomic watchdog warned here Monday that the world's growing appetite for nuclear energy could lead to dangers associated with unsaf...

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A Mother, Her Son and a Test of America's New Foreign Policy

Steve Ralls | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aeryn Gilleran, Austria, Missing Persons, Kathy Gilleran, Pflag, Vienna, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Politics News

Because until the search for Aeryn is taken seriously, we cannot truly say that LGBT equality - and respect for the dignity of LGBT people - is a pillar of U.S. foreign policy.

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Harm Reduction and Allan's Diplomatic Faux Pas, on the Final Day of the U.N. Drug Treatment Conference, Vienna

Allan Clear | Posted 01.22.2009 | World

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At last, my final day in Vienna attending the United Nations' "Technical Seminar on Drug Addiction Prevention and Treatment: From Research to Practice" conference.

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Vienna U.N. Drug Treatment Meeting Day Two: The Clockwork Orange Brainwashing Day

Allan Clear | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

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Cross posted from from the Stop the Drug War Chronicle Blog (12/18/08) Ah, the Clockwork Orange brainwashing day. (For my preamble, click here. For c...

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Why Should You or Anyone Care About This Week's U.N. Anti-Drug Meeting?

Allan Clear | Posted 01.18.2009 | World

Read More: United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, Addiction, Harm Reduction, Treatment, Drugs, Drug Policy, Vienna, United Nations, Foreign Policy, World News

Are the collected nations going to sign on to yet another tour of duty with the War on Drugs? Or will this new Declaration finally shift the focus of international drug policy towards a human rights, public health-based approach?

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Quest for an Inquest as a Mother Searches for her Son Abroad

Steve Ralls | Posted 12.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Aeryn Gilleran, Parliament, Austria, Missing Persons, Kathy Gilleran, Civil Rights, Vienna, Living News

Aeryn Gilleran, a gay man who was living abroad in Vienna while working for the United Nations International Development Organization, disappeared just over a year ago, and his case remains unsolved.

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