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Kate Farmer

Cutting to the chase

07.02.2012

Who'll call the bluff?

Reality Check: Israel-Iran, Arigona, 50 years US embargo on Cuba, Falkland Islands renewed tension, The Data Thief.

06.02.2012

Greece's neverending story

Reality Check: More bailout talks in Greece, pro- and anti-Putin demonstrations in Moscow, UNSC resolution on Syria vetoed, TripAdvisor's allegedly unreliable advice, Dickens' bicentenary.

02.02.2012
Feuer, Menschen die flüchten oder die Stühle tragen

"Ultra"-violence and angry protests

Reality Check: Football riots in Egypt, Israel to deport Sudanese refugees, Merkel in China, Untersuchungsausschuss, smoking returns to the Netherlands.

01.02.2012
Vladimir Putin

Security above democracy?

Reality Check: Why Russia is rejecting pressure for regime change in Syria, Mexico drug war, Florida primary, Facebook IPO, Hungary's controversial theatre director.

27.01.2012
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin E. Dempsey

Boots OFF the ground in US military

Reality Check: US military cutbacks, WKR ball, Austrian sparpaket, Darfur refugees, children in detention

randalierende Jugendliche in GB

Crime and punishment

How justice systems fail young offenders

26.01.2012
Abdel Hafiz Ghoga

Libya: a decade away from stability?

Reality Check: Militias out of control in Libya, French presidential elections, Mein Kampf, Parliamentary reform, Kill kangaroos to save the mice!

24.01.2012
Demonstranten mit Türkei-Fahnen

Turkey's war of words

Reality Check: Turkey's fury at France, immigrant jobs, ICC to try Kenyan presidential hopefuls, vulture funds

23.01.2012
Öltanker

Iran: it's all about recognition

Reality Check: Oil embargo against Iran, Republican race, Croatia's land mines, Greece's tax evaders, the British Buddhist monk.

18.01.2012

The Lucas empire strikes back

Reality Check: Wikipedia black out, tax havens and the developing world, how safe is Ethiopia?, George Lucas challenges Hollywood racism, contacting alien life forms.

17.01.2012

"The greatest" at 70

Reality Check: Diplomatic passports, Israeli cyber attacks, Romanis protests, Hungary-EU, Muhammad Ali is 70

16.01.2012

What's an "A" between Euro-friends?

Reality Check: Austria loses it's AAA rating, limiting nuclear enerty in Austria, Costa Concordia disaster, EU oil embargo on Iran, young social entrepreneurs in Austria.

13.01.2012
Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Tunisia - the lingering aroma of jasmine

Reality Check: Tunisia, prisoner releases in Burma, early pensions in Austria, Republican candidates Perry and Gingrich, comedy show The Second City.

12.01.2012
protesters

Petrol protests and private drones

Reality Check: Nigeria riots, inside North Korea, US military scandal, CES in Las Vegas, Jon Huntsman

11.01.2012

Guantanamo - the problem that won't go away

Reality Check: 10 years Guantanamo, "Schuldenbremse", 2 years Haiti earthquake, EU forces changes in Hungary, Republican candidate Ron Paul

10.01.2012

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows

Reality Check: Iran's one-upmanship, Republican primaries - Rick Santorum, Syria's Assad addresses the people, Alpine plants under threat, Jamie Oliver on casual cooking

23.12.2011
Hillary and Bill Clinton at Havel's Funeral

The Havel legacy

Reality Check; Funeral of Vaclav Havel, Fukushima clean-up, Fatah-Hamas talks, secret Santa, uncertains future of frankincense

22.12.2011
Medvedev

Medvedev's promises and Putin's prospects

Reality Check: Dmitry Medvedev gives his "state of the nation" speech, media restrictions in Hungary, data retention law, Bradley Manning update, universtity fees debate.

21.12.2011
Women in Iran

Iraq's government is already crumbling

Reality Check: Iraq, Women protest in Egypt, new allegations against Grasser, Amber Med, 40 years MSF.

20.12.2011
trauernder nordkoreaner

Farewell, dear leader

Reality Check: Death of Kim Jong Il, death of Vaclav Havel, prominent journalist murdered in Dagestan, tax evasion in poor countries

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