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Fernando Llanos is a freelance Peruvian journalist who has worked for media organisations in both Peru and Spain. He holds a Masters Degree in International Relations, and has also studied intercultural relations and communications studies. Currently, Fernando is a tutor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland.

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The new immigration law related to illegal aliens in the European Union (EU) started on June 18. The new policy, called “Return Directive”, allows the different member states of EU to confine any illegal immigrant for up to 18 months before expelling them.

These new policies against “illegal immigrants” obey a new policy in EU to stop the massive immigration especially from East Europe, Africa and Latin America.

However, for a long time a lot of right wing and nationalist political parties from all Europe have been criticising the EU leaders’ “slack” policy about immigration.
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Hong Kong

Hong Kong
Mao and Friends
Hong Kong Photo Gallery: Follow the link below to see more photosReminiscent of communist ideology

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Spain: Another Civil war

The last government elections in Spain has brought the deepest crisis in the second most important political party in this country, the Popular Party (PP), led by Mariano Rajoy.

Since March 11, one day after the general elections, the conservative party, which unites former fascists to libertarian ideologists, has fallen into a semantic internal war.

In one side, is the right wing of the party led by Esperanza Aguirre, president of the prosperous Madrid Community, in the other, Mariano Rajoy, who after the two consecutive defeats has decided to moderate the ideology of his party.
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Summits for Ed

Friend of Ed
Pasang Sherpa
Click for larger imageThis Nepalese man holds a picture of Sir Edmund Hillary, proclaiming Hillary as a hero for his nation, not just because he was the first man to climb Mount Everest but for his philanthropic actions in Nepal.
Friend of Ed

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ANZAC Day

ANZAC Day
Auckland Museum, 2008
ANZAC Day Photo Gallery: Follow the link below to see more photos This photo was taken at 6:30am, there were hundreds of people around me and it was very hard find a good position to take it. ANZAC day is a commemorative holiday where the Kiwis offer tribute to the soldiers who fought for New Zealand since the First World War
ANZAC Ceremony

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