This obscenity is a wake-up call for Europe
It ought to inspire shame throughout Europe that dozens of African immigrants spent an entire night in the open sea while Maltese and Libyan officials, aware of their plight, argued over whose responsibility they were. It may not. Even the most powerful images of stranded or dead illegal migrants seem to have lost the power to shock. People in the Canary Islands, or on Lampedusa, off Sicily, have become depressingly inured to the sight of the bloated corpses of sub-Saharan Africans washed up on their shores.
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Slovenia, Croatia, the EU and Piran Bay
by Anes Alic
A long-running dispute over a 20-square-kilometer bay has no end in sight without international arbitration, as Croatia and Slovenia trade venom, with the latter threatening to bloc the former’s EU entry.
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Star Wars: May the Merch Be with You
Signs outside the Los Angeles Convention Center read: “No Camping Allowed.” It’s the first clue that this is not a boat show or a conference of urologists. It is Celebration IV, the world’s largest party for Star Wars fans. The five-day festival opened May 25 to the general public, 30 years to the date of the original film’s premiere. It’s the fourth in a series of semiannual conferences, officially sanctioned by Star Wars creator George Lucas.
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Farewell to The Sopranos
by David Remnick
Everyone in “The Sopranos” has grown older (and we along with them). One after another, the made men and crew members disappear from the stage—an accelerated version of what happens naturally. “Hope comes in many forms,” Dr. Melfi tells Tony in one of their first sessions. “Well, who’s got the time for that?” he replies. The end is a mystery, but we know one thing: “The Sopranos” defied Aristotelian conventions. It is a comedy that ends with a litany of the dead and missing. Whaddya gonna do?
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Vraćaju se devedesete
Aleksandar Saša Zeković jedan je od najpoznatijih crnogorskih aktivista u nevladinim organizacijama, član je Državnog savjeta za građansku kontrolu policije i priznati istraživač kršenja ljudskih prava u Crnoj Gori. Posljednjih tridesetak dana živi pod svojevrsnim presingom i ne ide nikamo izvan Podgorice, budući da je u tom razdoblju doživio mnoštvo telefonskih prijetnji kojih je krajnja poruka bila da ga čekaju “patike Ivana Stambolića“.
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Borovina krepi menadžere
SAMO jedan boravak u novovaroškom selu Vraneša, u vikendici beogradske porodice Zeković, bio je dovoljan da se Slovenac Leon Srnec, vlasnik firme „L-sistem“ iz Celja, zaljubi u krajolike na obudu klisure Uvca i koji mesec kasnije kupi 40 ari zemlje i započne gradnju srpskog etnosela.
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Treating (or Not) the Tiniest Babies
by Peter Singer
In February, newspapers hailed “miracle baby”Amillia, claiming that she is the earliest-born surviving premature baby ever recorded. Born in October at a gestational age of just twenty-one weeks and six days, she weighed only 280 grams, or ten ounces, at birth. Doctors did not expect Amillia to live, as previously no baby born at less than twenty-three weeks had been known to survive. But, after nearly four months in a Miami hospital’s neonatal intensive-care unit, and having grown to a weight of 1,800 grams, or four pounds, doctors judged her ready to go home.
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Appeasing Serbia
by Mabel van Oranje and Nataša Kandic
This month has been a bad one for the cause of human rights in Europe, as Serbia was allowed to begin its six-month presidency of the Council of Europe, the Continent’s oldest political body. With Serbia at the helm, the Council, which aims to promote human rights and the rule of law, is now overseen by a state that thumbs its nose at the Genocide Convention and harbors an indicted war crimes suspect, former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic. Moreover, the European Commission has indicated that it is ready to resume talks aimed at bringing Serbia closer to the European Union as soon as a reform-oriented government is formed in Belgrade.
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