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| BETRAYER AND BETRAYED New Documents Reveal Truth on NATO's 'Most Damaging' Spy For years, from his senior position in Estonia's Defense Ministry, Herman Simm leaked highly sensitive NATO intelligence and the names of Western spies to Russia's foreign intelligence service. In a classified damage analysis, NATO concludes that the former KGB colonel was one of the "most damaging" spies in the history of the alliance. |
| MAY DAY TOURISM IN BERLIN Anti- Capitalist Tour Guide Offers Riot Sightseeing The May 1 riots in Berlin's Kreuzberg district have become an annual ritual in the German capital. Now an American anti-capitalist activist has started giving tours of the neighborhood's hot spots to foreign visitors. |
| THE BEST TRANSLATION PROGRAM YET Google Delivers Foreign Tongues at the Press of a Button A German scientist has developed one of the first translation programs suitable for everyday use. Sheer computing power gives the Google software surprisingly good results -- perhaps the best yet seen created by a machine. |
| THE WORLD FROM BERLIN 'The Financial Industry Doesn't Give a Damn about Politics' The bailout package for Greece came closer to completion on Friday, but criticism of the handling of the crisis by the European Union and Germany continues to grow. German newspapers on Friday weigh in on apathy, deliberate stalling and irresponsibility in addressing the euro crisis. |
| DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST RIBAL AL-ASSAD 'Syria Is Today a Vassal State of Tehran' Ribal al-Assad, the cousin of Syrian President Bashar Assad, is an advocate of greater democracy in Syria. He talks to SPIEGEL ONLINE about Iran's influence on the country, allegations that Damascus supplied Hezbollah with weapons and the conditions for a peace deal with Israel. |
| FEARS OF EURO ZONE DOMINO EFFECT Will Greek Contagion Bring Portugal Down? Will the Greek malaise spread to Portugal? Fears of a national bankruptcy are now also growing in Lisbon, even though the country is capable of getting its debt under control by itself. The problem is that markets no longer have faith in the Portuguese to fix their own affairs. |
| BELGIUM'S BURQA BAN Divided Country Finds Consensus on Islamic Veils Belgium's lower house of parliament has approved a radical ban on Islamic face-covering veils. If approved by the Senate, the country would become the first in Europe to prohibit the burqa and niqab. Currently, it seems to be one of the few issues uniting the linguistically divided country. |
| IMMIGRATION IN THE US 'Arizona May only Be the Beginning' In the United States, a large number of people support a strong clampdown on immigration -- including a controversial Arizona law that allows people to be detained if they do not have proper paperwork. Political scientist Jens Hainmueller argues the debate will get more heated in the coming months. |
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