Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras: "We have a great opportunity for a new beginning". The leftist Greek politician's Syriza party won landmark elections in January. Tsipras preached a new way forward for Greece after years of crippling austerity and compounding debt. But a failure to reach an accord with European Union authorities in Brussels has led to a return to the grinding status quo, which saw Tsipras contest and once more win elections in September, though with a humbler mandate. French President Francois Hollande: "France is at war". That's what France's president declared in the hours after the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13....
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