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Hoping for More Than Just Energy From a European Gas Pipeline

Dec. 22, 2009
Joschka Fischer, the former Green Party leader, is a consultant for a natural gas pipeline that will stretch from Iran to Austria, and hopefully bring Turkey closer to the European Union.
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch