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Kate Farmer

Cutting to the chase

13.03.2012
Nicholas Sarkozy

Sarkozy's Gaddafi connection

Reality Check: Sarkozy targeted in scandal campaign, Tunisia's salafis, Human rights and anti-terror laws, the workings of Wikipedia, Austria's first Buddhist priest.

12.03.2012
Hamid Karzai

Shock at US soldier's rampage

Reality Check: US soldier kills 16 in Kandahar, Kony 2012 reactions, Slovakia elections, El Salvador elections, mobile euthanasia.

08.03.2012
Militärführer Josef Kony

Will the viral video of 2012 catch a virtual cold?

Reality Check: Kony 2012, Syrian minister defects, International Women's Day

07.03.2012
Mitt Romney

Not-so-super Tuesday didn't unite Republicans

Reality Check: Super Tuesday, Sarkozy moves to the right, Eastern Libya calls for autonomy, Respekt.net helps Guantanamo detainees, Pussy Riot

06.03.2012
Opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, is arrested during a "for fair elections" demonstration in Moscow

Is economic mis-management a crime?

Reality Check: Iceland puts former PM on trial for mis-managing the economy, protests in Russia continue, Iran's potential revolution, why aquatic mammals need human rights, Costa Rica's "Envision" festival.

05.03.2012
Putin supporters celebrate his victory in the Presidential election.

Russian roulette?

Reality Check: Putin returns to the Kremlin, Syria latest, Iran and the west, tribute to conceptual designer, Ralph McQuarrie.

02.03.2012
Putin

Russia: on the brink of change?

Will another Putin presidency mean more of the same, or is the pressure of the protests going to set a new tone?

Putin

Is Russia softening its stance on Syria?

Reality Check: Russia-Syria, Andrew Breitbart obit, Attac meeting in Greece, US summit fatigue, social impact awards

29.02.2012
geld

Microfinance: the down side of the life saving loan

Reality Check: European Trade Union Confederation day of action, microfinance suicides, Republican primaries, Beate Klasfeld, cycling safety.

28.02.2012

Syria: the "wild west" of the Middle East?

Reality Check: Syria, Occupy St Pauls evicted, Americans on trial in Egypt, Google privacy changes.

27.02.2012

What's in a *?

Reality Check: Serbia and Kosovo reach a compromise, Syria's referendum, blacked out tax documents submitted to parliamentary corruption inquiry, Iran's peaceful protests, Weymouth prepares for the Olympics

22.02.2012
Ambulanzwagen

Ammonia alert

Reality Check: Response to ammonia leak in Vienna, corruption and politicians, Iran and the IAEA, the end of war, facebook and politics.

21.02.2012
Frau macht Yoga

Yemen's one-horse race

Reality Check: Presidential election in Yemen, Tibetan new year, Greece's military spending, Kurdish attacks on Turkish newspaper, yoga and wealth.

20.02.2012
Trade Unionists protested near the city hall at Cibeles Square, Madrid

Guns 'n' espressos

Reality Check: US gun law and the elections, portrait of Joachim Gauck, Vati-leaks scandal in the Vatican, protests in Spain, Scotland and the EU.

15.02.2012
Palestinians hold pictures of their relatives held by Israel in "administrative detention" in a protest in support of hunger striker, Khader Adnan

A faint new hope for the Middle East?

Reality Check: How one hunger striker could change the Middle East, BZÖ and Telekom Austria, Golan Heights and Syria, US elections and contraception, Saudi blogger.

14.02.2012

Xi Jinping: a smiling face, but the same policies

Reality Check: Xi Jinping - Beijing's heir apparant, US budget - taxing the rich, Bahrain protests, ratings agencies, deal to limit generic drugs in the developing world

13.02.2012

The "new poor" of Greece

Reality Check: Greece austerity, Venezuela opposition, ACTA, Pakistan power struggle, Occupy movements moves to new territory.

10.02.2012
Sparschwein

Who pays for the "Sparpaket"?

Reality Check: "Sparpaket", "Gorilla" protests in Slovakia, China crackdown, dangers facing Egyptian journalists, crowd control.

09.02.2012

Children and teenagers targeted in Syria

Reality Check: Life on the ground in Syria, Capello resigns, FPÖ in Chechnya, life sentences for children in US, same sex marriage legalized in Washington State.

08.02.2012

Syria's sectarian divides

Reality Check: Syria's Alawites, Romanian protests, anti-gay bill debated in St Petersburg, pay-day loans, Max Schrems and Facebook.

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