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File photo of 55 Water Street, home of Standard & Poor’s, in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)


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File photo of 55 Water Street, home of Standard & Poor’s, in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)


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File photograph shows a businessman silhouetted as he stands under the Arche de la Défense in the financial district west of Paris on November 20, 2012. (REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/Files)


French credit rating cut by S&P again

French credit rating cut by S&P again

Paris, AP—France’s principal credit rating was downgraded again Friday by Standard & Poor’s, which said the country has limited ability to get its public finances in shape and make its economy more competitive. The agency lowered France’s...
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File photo of 55 Water Street, home of Standard & Poor’s, in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)


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Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali meets with members of his cabinet on February 19, 2013, in the la Kasbah area of Tunis. Jebali is pursuing “another solution” to Tunisia’s biggest political crisis since the uprising two years ago after his plan to form a cabinet of technocrats failed. AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID


Jebali the Dictocrat?

Jebali the Dictocrat?

When the then Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ousted Bourguiba in a bloodless coup, in what was known as the 7 November Movement in Tunisia, it was natural that the transfer of presidential powers to the new president (Ben Ali) would pose a challenge to article...