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PARIS - Leaders of the 27 nations that comprise the European Union have opened a summit aimed at solving the bloc's debt crisis. The dinner summit in Brussels will be dominated by increasing calls for growth measures, the creation of jobs and stimulating the troubled eurozone economy, which has been hit with grim news. This week, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned that the eurozone risked severe recession. The EU's focus has shifted ...

All eyes are on Egypt this week as the democratic birth-pangs that began with last year’s Tahrir Revolution undergo their final convulsion. Two days of voting May 23 and 24 mark the main event – the heavily anticipated presidential election, the first after the ouster last of long-time president Hosni Mubarak. With this week’s round of votes and a presumed run-off next month, the nation of more than 80 million will decide on which man will set the tone of executive leadership in Egypt’s new ...