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Jordan says more air strikes to come

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JORDAN, Amman – UAE is to join the bombing campaign against ISIS. Jordan says it has hit ISIS targets with 56 air strikes in three days in response to a video showing the ‘burning alive’ of its held pilot which was thought to have been filmed on January 3. Jordan is thought to have struck targets in Raqqa, Syria.

The Greek Question TEMPLATE ANALYSIS

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During the Greek War of Independence, the Sultan who was blamed for many massacres was famously slow to accept defeat and thus allow the rebels their freedom.

Some seventy years later, when Greece was routed by an Ottoman army, the way was open for the reconquest of those lands.

The Sultan though showed no interest in doing so.

For by then, Greece like the other newly created Balkan states were a problem for everyone, including the very European states that had championed their cause.

Today, European Central Bankers are debating the merits of taking Greece out of the Euro, as politicians in Athens are trying to form a government.

Should they stay or should they go – there will be huge implications whatever route is taken, which is why those who make make decisions should like the Sultan also consider their long term implications.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18046280

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Gr-exit (or what to do with Greece) TEMPLATE ANALYSIS

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You know that there’s a problem when reporters are asking any Greek citizen that appears on television how the next generation intends to behave, will they have learned that you can’t get something for nothing.

You know that there’s a problem when reporters point out that Greek doctors who are known to earn in excess of a million euros, file tax returns claiming that they earn just 14, 000 a year.

Here is a corrupt country blocking the arteries of Europe.

And you know that there’s a problem when another nation’s PM, namely our own David Cameron, frustrated at how Greek politicians have failed to form a government or to indicate whether they intend to implement the next round of austerity cuts to this already austerity battered country, warns Athens  that there are plans for a Greek exit out of the Eurozone.

But how realistic is such a prospect, how would any one have confidence in the…

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Greece needs loan, not bailout – PM

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GREECE, Athens – Greece can not service its debt of 323bn Euros and requires a bridging loan instead of a bailout – PM Alexis Tsipras told Greek Parliament today. EU officials have rejected attempts by the leader of the left wing Syriza party to renegotiate terms of the bail out. Greece’s debt stands at 174% of total economic output. The current programme of loans to Athens ends on February 28.

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Jordan says it has launched 56 air strikes in the last three days

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