India’s polls closed the evening of Monday, May 12, ending five weeks of a marathon general election and the largest democratic exercise in human history including more than 550 million...
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Congressman John Lewis Gives Civil Rights Lecture in Ireland
They were an ocean and four decades in age apart, but American poet and abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Ireland’s Daniel O’Connell, who drove Catholic emancipation in his country, were cut...
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Atlanta Jazz Festival Infuses American Genre With Global Flavor
As a musical genre, jazz faces two directions. Though it’s quintessentially American, it was birthed by a melange of cultures in New Orleans and has been steadily exported overseas by...
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Two Chances to Hear Ireland’s Ambassador to the U.S.
Irish Ambassador Anne Anderson, the nation’s first female envoy to the U.S., will give two speeches on Ireland’s role in Europe during a two-day trip to Atlanta May 28-29. On May 28, Ms. Anderson is...
Posted inArchive, Economic Development
Mayor Reed Rethinking Nigeria Trip Over Security Concerns
Global outrage over the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls from a school in northeastern Nigeria last month has spilled over to Atlanta City Hall, prompting Mayor Kasim Reed to speak out on the topic and...
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Swedish Bank and NCR to Roll Out New ATM Services Across the Baltics
Duluth-based NCR Corp. is intensifying its 20-year relationship with Swedbank, Sweden’s oldest savings bank, by continuing to help it expand its services across the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and...
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Canadian Firm Hiring at Augusta Call Center
Sitel Worldwide, which is privately held and majority owned by Onex Corp., a diversified Canadian company, is looking to hire 200 customer service employees at its Augusta call center. The...
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Japanese Auto Supplier to Build in Griffin ‘Eco-Park’
A Japanese maker of titanate friction materials for car brake pads will put a factory and headquarters near Griffin, Ga., creating 32 jobs. Otsuka Chemical Co. Ltd. is a subsidiary...
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High’s African ‘Mask/Masquerade’ Exhibition Extended Until Sept. 14
When Carol Thompson, the High Museum of Art’s Fred and Rita Richman curator of African art, first saw the 2-foot-tall Suku mask in an exhibition in Washington in 1987, it became one...
Posted inArchive, Diplomacy
Former Ambassador to EU: New ‘Red Line’ Needed for Russian Sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea was the latest “wake-up call” that the European Union must continue working to safeguard the peace it has been intregral to achieving, a former...