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The gang had spread its tentacles across many countries and even used artificial intelligence methods to forge documents

There was little chance of the government changing the economic policy mix it has relied on for the past four years in the runup to elections. Instead, it remains capable only of running up excessive primary surpluses through overtaxation while failing completely to revive the real economy.

Chancellor Angela Merkel called Jan. 26 for a quick end to the last stretch of tortuous negotiations to forge a government for Germany, in a race against time to stop her power slipping away at home and abroad.

After the timeless story of a close bond between a Turkish soldier and a Korean girl captured people’s hearts, another Turkish veteran hopes to re-forge a similar bond.

It is not the first time that a government of this country, this time the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition, is seeking to bring a part of the news media under its control. Others have tried to do the same before, and the outcome has always been dire.

The past few days have shown that some people inside Greece’s main leftist opposition party do in fact seem to grasp just how critical a position the country finds itself in right now and the need to forge at least a minimum consensus with the conservative-led government on key national and economic issues.