The media is finally paying more attention to the Rohingya. The Christian Science Monitor published a review of a new book on the people, and it supplies more background on the status of the Rohingya in Burma.
Greece is facing two deadlines (11 and 16 November) which could determine whether it remains a member of the eurozone. The Greek government is considering a budget that the “troika” (the European Central Bank, the EU, and the IMF) will have to approve before it releases money Greece needs to pay back its creditors on those two dates. But many Greeks are fundamentally opposed to the austerity budget, and labor unions have voted to hold nation-wide strikes in protest.
Viktor Yanukovych and his Party of the Regions have apparently won the right to form a government in Ukraine. Yanukovych is not very popular because he was instrumental in jailing his former rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, and his persistent attempts to stifle a democratic movement in Ukraine. More worrying is the number of votes received by Svoboda, a far-right nationalist party often compared to the National Front in France. Democracy is still far away in Ukraine.
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