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| A Pro-US President |
 FRANCE is glad to be rid of
Nicolas Sarkozy, who lost the
country's presidency in a runoff
election this weekend to the
Socialist candidate, Francois
Hollande. He was ineffective in office
and prone to gaffes in public.
But the French will miss him more
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| MANDATE FOR
CHANGE IN EUROPE |
 THE French are revolting.
The Greeks, too. And it's
about time. Both countries
held elections on Sunday
that were in effect referendums
on the current European
economic strategy, and in both
countries voters turned two
thumbs down.
It's far from clear how soon the
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UN N-inspector killed in car crash
AP
TEHRAN A UN NUCLEAR inspector from South Korea was killed on Tuesday and a colleague was injured in a car crash near a reactor site in central Iran, the nuclear watchdog agency said.
There were no immediate indications of foul play, but the crash is likely to undergo intense scrutiny.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that another second inspector from Slovenia also was injured in the incident, and that the agency was in touch with the inspectors’ families and the Iranian authorities. The IAEA did not name the inspector killed in the crash, but Iran’s official IRNA news agency identified the Korean as Seo Ok-Seok.
IRNA said the inspectors’ car overturned around a heavy water reactor being built in Khondab, about 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of Tehran.
Iran says the reactor‚ part of the Arak complex‚ will be used to produce isotopes for peaceful medical and industrial uses.
But the U.S. and others fear that spent fuel from the reactors could be reprocessed into plutonium for a warhead.
Iran denies it seeks nuclear weapons. The incident comes ahead of a new round of technical discussions between Tehran and the IAEA to be held in Vienna.
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