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Will Propping Up Portugal Halt Spread of Insolvency in Europe?

ATHENS, Greece -- Following Greece and Ireland, Portugal, too, has requested a bailout from its European peers. But will Spain, a larger economy with stronger significance to global finance, follow? And more important, has European aid done anything to solve what appears to be a growing solvency problem. In answering at...

Portugal Seeks Bailout, Europe Debt Crisis Spreads

LISBON, Portugal -- Portugal asked for a bailout Wednesday to relieve its crushing debt, joining Greece and Ireland by becoming the third European nation to ask for outside help amid a bruising European financial crisis. Prime Minister Jose Socrates went on national television to announce that Portugal must take...

Activists: Hundreds of Animals Dying at Kiev Zoo

The Kiev Zoo was once a source of pride for Ukraine's capital city, but activists are now crying foul against what hardly seems like an animal sanctuary. Animal rights groups say that possibly hundreds of animals have died at the Kiev Zoo in recent years as a result of poor living conditions, malnutrition and inadequate...

Japan Disaster Reignites Nuclear Debate Around the World

LONDON -- Japanese authorities are battling to stop radiation from leaking from Fukushima's quake-ravaged atomic power plant. But the economic and political fallout from the disaster has already spread far beyond the Land of the Rising Sun. Governments in Europe and Asia are tearing up or reviewing plans to build new...

Is Your Cell Phone's Radiation Level Safe? Don't Call the FCC

More than 200 million people in the U.S. talk on cell phones a total of at least 12 hours a month -- some double or triple that amount. Almost everyone admits that cell phones emit radiation when they link to the closest tower. What almost no one can agree on is whether that radiation is harmful to those holding their...

Background on europe

Europe ( or ) is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.

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