Tens of thousands take to the streets in Morocco’s largest city, Casablanca, accusing the authorities of failing to deliver promised reforms.

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Mass protests held in Morocco

EU leaders want Greece to stay in the eurozone but it must continue economic reforms, the European Council president says at a Brussels summit.

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EU ‘wants Greece in the eurozone’

Voters in Serbia have a choice between a reformist and a nationalist as they vote for a president, months after winning EU candidate status.

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Serbia votes for new president

The government is “determined” to introduce a register of lobbyists before 2015, constitutional reform minister Mark Harper tells a Commons committee.

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Lobbying ‘to be reformed by 2015′

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the results of last week’s widely-criticised parliamentary elections prove people support his reforms.

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Assad says Syrians back reforms

Evangelos Venizelos was to be the third party chief to try to form a coalition from the fractious results of Sunday’s vote and to steer the debt-wracked country toward economic reform.

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The government is expected to use the Queen’s Speech to push ahead with House of Lords reform, despite opposition from many Conservative MPs.

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There must be no half-measures on the reform of social care in England, campaigners and council chiefs are warning.

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Groups demand social care reform

“In a second term,” Mitt Romney darkly warned in a speech to the National Rifle Association last month, President Obama “would be unrestrained by the demands of reelection.” But Romney was cagey about what, exactly, that would mean: His only specific prediction was that Obama would “remake” the Supreme Court. So it was helpful when, at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner a week ago, the president opened up about the “secret agenda” he has planned. “In my first term,” he joked, “we ended the war in Iraq; in my second term, I will win the war on Christmas. . . . In my first term, we passed health-care reform; in my second term, I guess I’ll pass it again.” Read full article > >

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Some MPs say the government is putting promised legislation on hold to make room for House of Lords reform.

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Lords reform ‘is delaying Bills’

BOSTON — In 2006, under Gov. Mitt Romney, Massachusetts became the first state to extend insurance coverage to all its residents. Now it’s looking to slow the growth of its health-care costs in equally groundbreaking ways. Read full article > >

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Massachusetts payment-reform bill would overhaul how health-care providers are paid

The top watchdog at the Department of Homeland Security told lawmakers Monday that he plans to launch a separate probe into the sex scandal involving the U.S. Secret Service after keeping close tabs on the agency’s ongoing internal investigation for the last three weeks. Acting Inspector General Charles K. Edwards informed congressional offices Monday that he has launched an investigation to determine how well the Secret Service responded to the April 12 incident in Cartagena, Colombia that implicated at least 12 Secret Service personnel and 12 members of the U.S. military. Edwards said the probe also will focus on the conclusions reached by the agency’s separate investigation, the sufficiency of the disciplinary measures taken against personnel involved and how effectively the Secret Service is handling issues of diversity, recruitment and discipline. The Secret Service is one of more than 20 agencies and offices that comprise DHS. In a message sent Monday, Edwards sought to assure lawmakers that he has been kept abreast of the agency’s ongoing investigation, noting that Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan first informed him of the incident on April 13, the day after agency officials identified an initial 11 personnel to be sent home from Colombia. Edwards said his office “determined that the USSS was best positioned to immediately initiate the investigation with the full understanding that they would keep OIG [Office of Inspector General] informed as the investigation progressed,” according to Edwards’s letter. “We have maintained close contact with the USSS, coordinating with them as their internal investigation continued. During the past two weeks the USSS has been completely transparent and forthcoming with specific details and findings of their investigation.” Edwards’s decision to further investigate the situation should meet the demands of Republican lawmakers who requested a separate, independent probe to determine what occurred in Colombia before President Obama arrived for the Summit of the Americas, and whether what unfolded was an aberration or a reflection of a larger cultural pattern at the Secret Service. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Monday evening that while she maintains confidence in Sullivan and his ongoing investigation, “It is always difficult for an organization to investigate and reform itself, which is why the IG’s involvement is so important.” Collins is the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Governmental Affairs Committee, which is also investigating the matter, in addition to at least three other congressional committees. The Secret Service is due to deliver its initial findings on the Colombia scandal on Tuesday to the House Oversight and Homeland Security committees. Read full article > >

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DHS inspector general to investigate Secret Service scandal in Colombia

BEIJING — Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has seized upon the ouster of his Communist Party rival Bo Xilai to reinvigorate what had until recently seemed a lonely campaign for Western-style economic liberalization and a battle against corruption. Read full article > >

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Chilean students take part in fresh protests for education reform, saying measures proposed by President Sebastian Pinera do not go far enough.

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Chile students in fresh protests

The Jordanian authorities are violating people’s right to free speech and undermining the credibility of reform efforts, Human Rights Watch says.

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Jordan ‘suppressing free speech’