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Looks very professional.
Might be worth not making people create an account before commenting, then you might get more people commenting.
I presume that you have this in google news, if not you...

In my opinion duplicate content is very much to do with the actual content of the page rather than the title or meta tags.
Anyway I would use descriptive titles and meta description as the user...

Google does the same if you do too many queries too quickly, though you are only ever likely to hit this problem if you are on a shared connection and many people are using the same ip.

Ideally the website should have the domain extension of the country and be located in the country. Then it should have backlinks from the country in question. It should also of course be in the...

Looks pretty good that being said...
1. I don't like all the different colours for the top menu bar. I would stick with one or two maximum.
2. When you hit the main page the bottom right quadrant...

Firefox. Mainly due to addons. Firebug lets you inspect pages to see what others are up to. You can also get ones which show you page rank more easily.

There is an extensive Terms of Service which adsense has which you must read and comply to, or they will ban you. (E.g. you can't suggest to people to click on the links, or put images next to them)...

I like the logos, but some of the fonts are very hard to read, if I need to examine a logo closely to identify what it says then it needs to be changed IMHO.