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Norwegian mass murderer in human rights appeal case

  HELSINKI / AP Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, is returning to court this week as the government appeals a ruling that his isolation in prison breaches the European Convention on Human Rights. The 37-year-old right-wing extremist, who admitted to the killings that Prime Minister Erna Solberg has ...

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Obama’s unforced errors on foreign policy

  When Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years. Wilson’s embittering foreign policy failure was the Senate’s rejection of the US participation in the embodiment of Wilsonian aspirations, the League of Nations. ...

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S’pore landlord hears its investors knocking

  Global Logistic Properties Ltd., (GLP) a Singapore-traded landlord with a $40 billion warehouse portfolio in China, Japan, Brazil and the US, was crying out for some honest-to-goodness investor activism. A little belatedly, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund is prodding it to release what could be billions of dollars of trapped shareholder value. It’s still not too late for GLP to ...

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