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Non-European royalty plan to attend, as well, from Morocco,

Japan and Jordan and elsewhere.

With all those royals coming to Luxembourg, can international

attention be far behind?

“It’s good for Luxembourg,” said Nadine Chenet, a 46-year

-old street cleaner who was picking up cigarette butts with

pincers in front of the grand ducal palace. “Many people

will come now.”

Besides, she just plain likes the royal family, she said:

They give a good impression of the country.

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That’s a sentiment common in Luxembourg. To all appearances,

the bride and groom are a lovely couple. He is 30, with dark

hair and an immaculate beard. She is 28, blonde and smiling.

In public appearances, including at the London Olympics, they

have appeared besotted with each other.

According to biographies distributed by the royal court, each

has an array of interests befitting those who are to the

manner born.

Guillaume speaks four languages, has studied international

politics, is a lieutenant colonel in the Luxembourg army (a

force of 900 soldiers), and has been engaged in humanitarian

work in other countries, including Nepal. The duchess-to-be

has studied the influence of German romanticism on Russian

romanticism, plays piano and violin, swims, skis, and says

she reads three books at a time.

In the language department, she already speaks French and

German — two of Luxembourg’s three official languages —

and, perhaps more importantly, is studying the third, which

is called Luxembourgish. She plans to renounce her Belgian

citizenship in order to become, eventually, Luxembourg’s

grand duchess.

Criticism in the Chinese media about New Delhi's "adamant

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Only 39% of Chinese respondents said they viewed Beijing's

relationship with New Delhi as one of cooperation compared to

53% in 2010. The number of Chinese who regard India's

economic advances as positive slid from 60% in 2010 to only

44% now.

Criticism in the Chinese media about New Delhi's "adamant

attitude" on the boundary dispute is seen as a reason for the

slide in public opinion about India. Inadequate effort to

explain the Indian point of view and build bridges with the

ordinary people by facilitating travel and cultural

connections is another, observers said.

Most cultural functions and film festivals organized in China

by the Indian government are poorly attended by the Chinese

due to bad canvassing and distribution of tickets and passes.

The India page on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter,

attracts very poor response compared to pages put up by

governments of other countries.

Industry interaction programmes organized by the Indian

government and industry bodies are usually attended by lower

rung Chinese executives. Senior executives and chief

executive officers rarely participate, said Shanghai-based

country head of an Indian company.
 Eight British World War II airmen have been buried with

military honours in Malaysia, nearly 70 years after their

plane crashed while on a mission in Southeast Asia.

The eight were crew members of a Royal Air Force plane that

left Cocos Island on August 23, 1945, to drop supplies for

prisoners of war in what was then Malaya.

The plane wreckage was found in a deep jungle by tribesmen in

1991, but the remains of the airmen were not uncovered until

2009.

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The truth is that nuclear power could help slow global warming if there were a concerted international effort to replace coal plants with reactors. Critics are right to challenge the industry's more self-serving forecasts, but nuclear power is a proven technology that can reliably produce large quantities of energy without contributing to climate change. That said, the effort and expense required to expand nuclear power to the point at which it substantially reduced the growth of carbon emissions would be enormous--and worthwhile only if we could control the accompanying proliferation threat.
That means limiting the spread of enrichment and reprocessing facilities even as the demand for nuclear fuel increases. Essentially, we would need to deny states the opportunity to develop such facilities, regardless of whether they were doing so for purely commercial purposes (like Australia) or for malicious ones (like Iran). Unfortunately, the current international regime doesn't give the International Atomic Energy Agency anything close to that kind of power. Indeed, according to its institutional mandate, the iaea cannot refuse nuclear assistance to states that are complying with the Nonproliferation Treaty.
One answer, albeit an ambitious one, would be to require all states to forgo uranium enrichment and reprocessing. That is, ownership and operation of existing facilities--whether held by private, quasi-private, or government entities--would be transferred either to the iaea or to a new institution, and the facilities themselves would be granted extraterritorial status, like the U.N. headquarters in New York. A moratorium would be placed on new reprocessing facilities, and any new enrichment plants that were built to meet growing fuel demand would have to be internationally controlled.