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Jeune Afrique, France Shower of Dollars on the Presidential Campaign Original Article (French)

der Standard, Austria Romney's Republican Primary Dilemma Original Article (German) ""...religious conservatives and the tea party movement still don't trust the party establishment's choice. While they can't endanger Romney's nomination, he still needs those people in his battle against Barack Obama in November...." "

The Telegraph, U.K. Obama's War on the Catholic Church Isn't Just Insensitive – It's Un-American "It’s one thing to ask Catholic organizations to provide contraception coverage. It’s another thing to order them to do it. "

The Economist, U.K. The Santorum Surge "More importantly, this Santorum surge, after his earlier victory in Iowa, is the latest reminder that Mr Romney has a problem with evangelical and blue-collar conservatives in general, and with the midwest in particular. "

The Economist, U.K. A Game of Two Halves "The report was greeted with relief bordering on joy by the stockmarket and, no doubt, by Mr Obama’s campaign team. But their happiness should be tempered by the reflection that in both 2010 and 2011, job growth started out briskly only to fizzle out again. "

The Economist, U.K. Closer to Take-Off "Mr Obama will be mindful that an attack would dominate his bid for re-election in November—though it is unclear whether he would gain as a war president or lose ground because of a surge in oil prices and an economic reversal. "

The Moscow News, Russia Whither Entrepreneurship in Russia? "'Corruption, lack of patent enforcement, rule of law issues and lack of transparency discourage investment. English-language skills are lacking. Any venture that hopes to come to the U.S. or Europe for capital must be fluent in English. Skolkovo Foundation recently brought 12 of their 100 Information Technology companies to the Valley for a chance to pitch. Were they chosen on merit? No, they were the only ones who spoke English.' "

The Moscow Times, Russia Putin Chasing Imaginary American Ghosts "'Here we go again — another round of anti-Americanism from the Kremlin and state-controlled media. We have heard claims that the United States is trying to orchestrate an Orange Revolution in Russia many times before, but it was never this intense.' "

The Moscow Times, Russia Realpolitik Without Realism "'Kremlin leaders are paranoid about a "color revolution" in Russia, in contrast to their simulated concerns over U.S. missile defense plans, which they understand does not pose a threat to the country's nuclear deterrence. Russia's leaders are prepared to battle the "orange plague" wherever it appears in the world. The Americans executed regime change in Iraq and Libya. Now they want the same in Syria — and are planning the same for Russia.' "

Pravda, Russia Georgia’s SOS Synagogue Of Satan Brian Kemp "'But, the first guarantee he made to the People of Georgia was that he would protect and defend the US Constitution. Any judgments thrown upon him after that oath he took, pledging, promising to protect our constitution had to be guided by that oath. Any judgment that he would make that conflicted with that promise would prove he is a liar and a con man.' "

The Moscow Times, Russia Russia Gets Bad Rap Over Syria "'The real "travesty" — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's term to attack the Russian and Chinese vetoes — is the camouflaging of ulterior objectives like cornering Iran in the name of human rights of Syrian citizens.' "

Irish Times, Ireland Gay Marriage in the US "'Over the last week proponents of gay marriage in the US have won two significant victories in the bitter state-by-state battle that has come to epitomise the culture war between liberal and conservative America.' "

Irish Examiner, Ireland US Business Forum - Ireland Inc is Open for Business "'Never was there a greater need to sell Ireland abroad. That fact of economic reality underlines the importance of the Government’s promotional visit to the US.' "

RiaNovosti, Russia Uncertain World: Anti-Americanism in Russia "'There has been an uptick in anti-American sentiment in the Russian blogosphere recently. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that the failure of the Phobos-Grunt mission – far from the only Russian space mishap in recent years – could have been caused by emissions from an American radar station.' "

die Zeit, Germany Anti-Capitalist TV Puppets Original Article (German)

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany Republican Conspiracy Theories Original Article (German)

die Presse, Austria Public Enemy Number One? Original Article (German)

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Asharq Al-Awsat, Saudi Arabia Russia is Battling America, Not the Arabs Original Article (Arabic) ""Perhaps the West has not yet realized that Russia wishes to return to the old manner of speaking, a coarse pre-1988 language of bartering and speaking openly about strategic interests. And Tartus [a Syrian port city, home to a Russian naval base] is by no means the greatest of these interests." "

Gulf Daily News, Bahrain Demonstrators Rap Foreign Interference "We can select our own democracy by ourselves without the help of anyone but we have to be left alone to be able to solve our problems. "

Dar al-Hayat, U.K. American Coercion Original Article (Arabic) "This test of relations between the two countries is the first since the regime change in Egypt, but coercion and threats of cutting aid are not new. "

The Jerusalem Post, Israel American Military Spending and Oil Dependency

The Jerusalem Post, Israel A New American Strategy "The Mubarak-Pentagon axis must be replaced by a Tahrir-Harvard one. "

Israel National News, Israel The Anti-Obama Silent Majority

Yedioth Ahronot , Israel Will America Sacrifice Israel?

Yedioth Ahronot , Israel Obama's Russia Failure "America’s Russia policy badly out of whack, falsely sees Moscow as defeated power. "

The Daily Star, Lebanon American Democracy Cannot Exist with Islamophobia

Arab News, Saudi Arabia Russia Stands to Lose

Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Saudi Arabia Meetings between the Taliban and American Officials in Doha Original Article (Arabic) "'We are prepared for negotiations, and in regards to Afghanistan, we are prepared to contribute to and encourage any peaceful solutions that unite Afghans.' "

The Herald, Zimbabwe Why the West Killed Lumumba

Akhbar Al-khaleej, Bahrain What Do the US Embassy Warnings Mean? Original Article (Arabic)

The Tripoli Post, Libya Israel's Frustration "Israel could not hope to engage the Arab states alone. The difficulty for Israel was how to induce the United States to implement the plan for Israel’s domination of the Middle East. "

The Herald, Zimbabwe America's Slide from Democracy to Corporatocracy

The Star, South Africa Occupiers Will Achieve Nothing without Vision "So there is reason to be angry. And the rest of the Pigs are not much better off (Portugal-Italy-Greece-Spain). Yet, what did Occupy achieve? Exactly nothing! It may get the people on to the street waving placards and shouting slogans, but then they go home! Because they have to make dinner. It seems there is no Occupy spokesman who is able to give guidance as to any 'great plan.' "

The Herald, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe: Beware of Uncle Sam’s Motive

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Proceso, Mexico Impossible Bipartisanship Original Article (Spanish)

Korean Central News Agency, North Korea Japan-US Joint Military Drill in Japan under Fire

Vietnam News, Vietnam VN Denies US Dumping Claims

The Nation, Pakistan The Drone Dilema "The use of drones raises some interesting questions: Are drones any less intrusive than sending troops in? Don’t they constitute cross border violations? And do these strikes violate international laws? "

Dawn, Pakistan The Afghan Quagmire "The US and the Taliban cannot be the only players in the room. Afghanistan’s neighbours, which include Iran, Pakistan, the Central Asian republics, Russia and China will need to be engaged too. Although an Indian role in Afghanistan is decried by Pakistan, it cannot be ignored. "

The Nation, Pakistan Untangling Balochistan " The USA has taken an interest in Balochistan ever since it feared a Soviet drive towards ‘warm waters’ in the 1980s after its invasion of Afghanistan, and its importance to it has increased with the building of Gwadar port, where it does not wish to see a Chinese presence. "

The Straits Times, Singapore Tomorrow's Pax Pacifica "Although the relationship between China and the United States is critical to Asia's future, this does not mean that the region will become a Sino-American duopoly. "

Korean Central News Agency, North Korea DPRK Papers Hit at US-Japan-S. Korea Military Nexus

Gulf Daily News, Bahrain Special Interest Money is Killing US Democracy "When Newt Gingrich called Palestinians "invented people" last December, most did not realise it was his deep pockets, not his brain lateralisation, which transmitted the claptrap through his mouth. "

MacLeans, Canada How Super PACs Are Changing the US Presidential Race "Together, the rulings paved the way for the rise of the super PACs—groups that can now accept unlimited amounts of money from anyone and then spend as much as they see fit to help a single favored candidate, as long as it stays formally independent of his official campaign. "

The Globe and Mail, Canada US Arms Sale to Bahrain Raises Eyebrows

Calgary Herald, Canada Obama’s Secularism Threatens to Hurt the Poor "If federal policies make it impossible for religious non-profits and hospitals to work in conjunction with federal, state and local agencies in providing social services, millions of poor and vulnerable Americans — Catholic and non-Catholic, religious and non-religious — would suffer. The task of building alternatives would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and lack the distinctive human touch provided by religious groups. "

The Globe and Mail, Canada Republican Base Shuns Romney in Caucuses

Calgary Sun, Canada Santorum's Surge Fills Pocketbook, Turns GOP Race on Its Head...Again

National Post, Canada Torture Is Inhumane, Ineffective and Immoral "He called torture of insurgents in Iraq 'counter-productive,' since it produced garbage intelligence and prompted reprisals against American troops. The FBI and the U.S. Army differed over debriefing techniques at Guantanamo. But the takeaway was that every time the military opened a can of whoop-ass on someone, the flow of usable intelligence dried up. "

MacLeans, Canada Santorum, Seriously?

The Globe and Mail, Canada A Rocky GOP Race: How Each Campaign Is Shaping Up "But the Republican leadership contest is as fluid and unpredictable as ever with Rick Santorum’s Midwest sweep of three states, delivering a dramatic twist to the race. "

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Major Foreign Press Sources and their Home Pages

Europe

Middle East

Africa

Algeria — La Nouvelle Republique (French) Auto-translation
La Nouvelle Republique (French) Auto-translation
L'Expression (French) Auto-translation
Liberte (French) Auto-translation

Angola — Apostolado (Portuguese) Auto-translation
Jornal De Angola (Portuguese) Auto-translation

Botswana — Mmegi (English)

Cape Verde — Expresso das ilhas (Portuguese) Auto-translation

Cameroon — The Post News (English)

Congo — Le Potentiel (French) Auto-translation
Djibouti — La Nation (French) Auto-translation

Gabon — Gabon Eco (French) Auto-translation

Ghana — Ghana Web (English)

Kenya — Daily Nation (English)
The Standard (English)

Liberia — The Analyst (English)
The Liberian Observer (English)

Libya — Libya Jeel (Arabic) Auto-translation
The Tripoli Post (English)

Morroco — Al Bayane (French) Auto-translation
Al Massae (Arabic) Auto-translation
La Matin (French) Auto-translation
L'Opinion (French) Auto-translation
L'Economiste (French) Auto-translation

Malawi — The Nation (English)

Mozambique —

Namibia — Allgemeine Zeitung Namibia (German) Auto-translation
Informante (English)
The Namibian (English)

Nigeria — The Daily Independent (English)
The Guardian (English)
The Punch (English)
This Day (English)
The Sun (English)

South Africa — Business Day (English)
Cape Times (English)
Financial Mail (English)
Mail & Guardian (English)
The Star (English)
The Sunday Independent (English)
The Sunday Times (English)

Sudan — Sudanese Media Center (Arabic, English, French) Auto-translation
Sudan News Agency (English)

Tunisia — La Presse (French) Auto-translation

Zimbabwe — The Herald (English)
The Independent (English)
The Sunday Mail (English)

Central America

Belize — Amandala (English)
The Belize Times (English)
The Guardian News (English)
The Reporter (English)

The Bahamas — The Nassau Guardian (English)

Costa Rica — Al Dia (Spanish) Auto-translation
Capital Financiero (Spanish) Auto-translation

Cuba — Ahora (Spanish) Auto-translation
Granma (English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish)
El Economista (Spanish) Auto-translation
Escambray (English, Spanish)
Juventud Rebelde (Spanish) Auto-translation
Periodico 26 (English, Spanish)
Radio Havana (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese)

Dominican Republic — El Caribe (Spanish) Auto-translation
El Nacional (Spanish) Auto-translation

El Salvador — Diario Co Latino (Spanish) Auto-translation
El Mundo (Spanish) Auto-translation

Guatemala — Prensa Libre (Spanish) Auto-translation
Siglo Vientiuno (Spanish) Auto-translation

Haiti — Haiti Press Network (French) Auto-translation

Honduras — La Prensa (Spanish) Auto-translation
La Tribuna (Spanish) Auto-translation

Nicaragua — El Nuevo Diario (Spanish) Auto-translation
La Prensa (Spanish) Auto-translation

Panama — Critica (Spanish) Auto-translation
Panama America (Spanish)
Prensa (Spanish)

Trinidad & Tobago — The Trinidad Guardian (English)
Trinidad & Tobago Express (English)

North America

Canada — Globe and Mail (English)
L'actualite - Quebec (French) Auto-translation
Le Devoir - Quebec (French) Auto-translation
Le Droit (French) Auto-translation
MacLeans (English)
Ottawa Citizen (English)
The Canadian (English)
Toronto Star (English)
The Toronto Sun (English)
The National Post (English)
The Calgary Sun (English)

Mexico — El Universal (Spanish, English) Auto-translation
Excelsior (Spanish) Auto-translation
La Cronica De Hoy (Spanish) Auto-translation
La Jornada (Spanish) Auto-translation

South America

Asia

Azerbaijan — Baku Today (English)
Azer News (English)
Today (English)
Zaman (Azerbaijani)

Afghanistan — Bissirat (French) Auto-translation

Bangladesh — The Daily Star (English)
The New Nation (English)

Brunei — The Brunei Times (English)

China — China Daily (English, Chinese)
China News (English, Chinese)
Creaders (English, Chinese)
Guangming Daily News (Chinese) Auto-translation
Huanqiu (Chinese) Auto-translation
Nanfang Daily (Chinese) Auto-translation
Oriental Morning Post (Chinese) Auto-translation
PLA Daily (English, Chinese)
The People's Daily (English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Russian, Arabic)
Sina (Chinese) Auto-translation
Shanghai Daily (English, Chinese)
Sohu (Chinese) Auto-translation
Xinhua (English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Russian, Arabic)
Zaobao (Chinese) Auto-translation

Hong Kong — Asia Times (English, Chinese)
Ming Pao (Chinese) Auto-translation
The Standard (English)
Takungpao (Chinese) Auto-translation
Wen Wei Po (Chinese) Auto-translation
Yazhou Zhoukan (Chinese) Auto-translation

India — The Central Chronicle (English)
Financial Express (English)
Greater Kashmir (English)
Indian Express (English)
NDTV Khabar (Hindi)
Outlook India (English)
The Times of India (English)
The Hindu (English)
The Hindustan Times (English)
The Tribune (English)

Indonesia — The Jakarta Post (English)
Tempo Magazine (English)

Japan — Asahi Shimbun (English, Japanese)
Daily Yomiuri (English, Japanese)
Kyodo News Service (English, Japanese, Chinese)
Mainichi Daily News (English, Japanese)
The Japan Times (English)
Sankei Shimbun (Japanese)
Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Japanese)
Yomiuri Shinbun (Japanese)

Macau — Hoje Macau (Portuguese) Auto-translation
Journal Tribuna of Macau (Portuguese) Auto-translation

Malaysia — Bernama (English)
New Straits Times (English)
Sin Chew Daily (Chinese) Auto-translation
The Star (English)

North Korea — Korean Central News Agency (English)

South Korea — The JoongAng Ilbo (English)
The Korea Herald (English)
The Korea Times (English)
Dong-a Ilbo (English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese) Auto-translation
The Choson Ilbo (English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese)
Hankyung (Korean) Auto-translation
Kyunghyang (Korean) Auto-translation
Segye (Korean) Auto-translation

Pakistan — Daily Ausaf (Urdu)
Daily Jang (Urdu)
Dawn (English)
Khabrain Daily (Urdu)
Nawa-i-waqt (Urdu)
The Nation (English) (English sister paper of Nawa-i-waqt)
Pak Tribune (English)
The Frontier Post - Peshawar & Quetta (English)
The News (English)

Philippines — The Manila Times (English)

Singapore — The Straits Times (English)
The Zaobao (Chinese) Auto-translation

Sri Lanka — The Sunday Observer (English)
The Sunday Times (English)

Taiwan — China Times (Chinese) Auto-translation
The China Post (English)
The Taipei Times (English)
TVBS (Chinese) Auto-translation
The United Daily News (Chinese) Auto-translation

Thailand — Bangkok Post (English)
The Nation (English)

Vietnam — Lao Dong (Vietnamese) Auto-translation
Thanh Nien News (English)
Tuoi Tre (English, Vietnamese)
Saigon Times Daily (English)
Sai Gon Giai Phong (Vietnamese) Auto-translation
Tuoi Tre (English, Vietnamese)
Vietnam News (English)

Oceania & Antarctica

Australia — The Age (English)
The Australian (English)
The Daily Telegraph (English)
The Sydney Morning Herald (English)

New Zealand — The New Zealand Herald (English)

Antarctica —

""...religious conservatives and the tea party movement still don't trust the party establishment's choice. While they can't endanger Romney's nomination, he still needs those people in his battle against Barack Obama in November...." "

"It’s one thing to ask Catholic organizations to provide contraception coverage. It’s another thing to order them to do it. "

"More importantly, this Santorum surge, after his earlier victory in Iowa, is the latest reminder that Mr Romney has a problem with evangelical and blue-collar conservatives in general, and with the midwest in particular. "

"The report was greeted with relief bordering on joy by the stockmarket and, no doubt, by Mr Obama’s campaign team. But their happiness should be tempered by the reflection that in both 2010 and 2011, job growth started out briskly only to fizzle out again. "

"Mr Obama will be mindful that an attack would dominate his bid for re-election in November—though it is unclear whether he would gain as a war president or lose ground because of a surge in oil prices and an economic reversal. "

"'Here we go again — another round of anti-Americanism from the Kremlin and state-controlled media. We have heard claims that the United States is trying to orchestrate an Orange Revolution in Russia many times before, but it was never this intense.' "

"'The real "travesty" — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's term to attack the Russian and Chinese vetoes — is the camouflaging of ulterior objectives like cornering Iran in the name of human rights of Syrian citizens.' "

"'Over the last week proponents of gay marriage in the US have won two significant victories in the bitter state-by-state battle that has come to epitomise the culture war between liberal and conservative America.' "

"'Never was there a greater need to sell Ireland abroad. That fact of economic reality underlines the importance of the Government’s promotional visit to the US.' "

""Perhaps the West has not yet realized that Russia wishes to return to the old manner of speaking, a coarse pre-1988 language of bartering and speaking openly about strategic interests. And Tartus [a Syrian port city, home to a Russian naval base] is by no means the greatest of these interests." "

"We can select our own democracy by ourselves without the help of anyone but we have to be left alone to be able to solve our problems. "

"This test of relations between the two countries is the first since the regime change in Egypt, but coercion and threats of cutting aid are not new. "

"The Mubarak-Pentagon axis must be replaced by a Tahrir-Harvard one. "

"America’s Russia policy badly out of whack, falsely sees Moscow as defeated power. "

"'We are prepared for negotiations, and in regards to Afghanistan, we are prepared to contribute to and encourage any peaceful solutions that unite Afghans.' "

"Israel could not hope to engage the Arab states alone. The difficulty for Israel was how to induce the United States to implement the plan for Israel’s domination of the Middle East. "

"The use of drones raises some interesting questions: Are drones any less intrusive than sending troops in? Don’t they constitute cross border violations? And do these strikes violate international laws? "

"The US and the Taliban cannot be the only players in the room. Afghanistan’s neighbours, which include Iran, Pakistan, the Central Asian republics, Russia and China will need to be engaged too. Although an Indian role in Afghanistan is decried by Pakistan, it cannot be ignored. "

" The USA has taken an interest in Balochistan ever since it feared a Soviet drive towards ‘warm waters’ in the 1980s after its invasion of Afghanistan, and its importance to it has increased with the building of Gwadar port, where it does not wish to see a Chinese presence. "

"Although the relationship between China and the United States is critical to Asia's future, this does not mean that the region will become a Sino-American duopoly. "

"When Newt Gingrich called Palestinians "invented people" last December, most did not realise it was his deep pockets, not his brain lateralisation, which transmitted the claptrap through his mouth. "

"Together, the rulings paved the way for the rise of the super PACs—groups that can now accept unlimited amounts of money from anyone and then spend as much as they see fit to help a single favored candidate, as long as it stays formally independent of his official campaign. "

"But the Republican leadership contest is as fluid and unpredictable as ever with Rick Santorum’s Midwest sweep of three states, delivering a dramatic twist to the race. "