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Kerry to Visit Ethiopia for Security Talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to Ethiopia for security talks with regional officials and to attend a 50th anniversary celebration for the African ...
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Russia Syria Agrees to Participate in Conference
Russia says the Syrian government has agreed in principle to attend aproposed international peace conference on the country's future. A spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry said Friday that Syria has agreed to participate in the conference that Russia and the U.S. have proposed next month in Geneva. But he said it is impossible to set a date yet because it is not clear yet who will ...
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Workers Struggles Europe Middle East Africa
Around 400 drivers of the Veolia bus company have taken part in a walkout since May 14, in protest at a new shift system and the company's personnel management record. Over the past week, Veolia Transport and the union have held talks without results. The strike affects all Veolia routes from the Tuupakka and Hakunila depots. Traffic in central Vantaa has been severely affected, as well as ...
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Proud Rizzoli prepared for Wembley experience
UEFA Champions League final referee Nicola Rizzoli told UEFA.com he feels "very proud" to have been given Saturday's Wembley assignment, saying: "Finals are always special ...
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Something in the Air A wispy but likeable look at France post-1968
, Assayas has been at the top of his game, in firm command of the material. Here, although the period details are superbly etched, he seems too close to his characters to form the judgments need to create any real dramatic tension. And an overdose of sympathy makes for a wispy picture, likeable certainly but lacking in crispness and ...
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Euro Tour chief apologises for remark
The chief executive of the European Tour has issued an apology after becoming embroiled in the Sergio Garcia racism row.Garcia got into trouble after joking at a European Tour awards dinner on Tuesday that he would serve world number one Tiger Woods fried chicken for dinner.The Spaniard offered an unreserved apology on Wednesday for the remarks, which Woods described as 'wrong, hurtful and ...
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French president defends Mali war after attacks
PARIS -; France's president says his country must fight harder against terrorists in Africa, after two suicide bombings apparently staged by extremists angry over the French military intervention in ...
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Russia tsunami warning cancelled
A massive earthquake deep under the sea in Russia's Far East was felt in cities including Moscow but emergency services called off a tsunami warning issued for the Pacific Sakhalin ...
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Wait there are riots in Sweden
The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 per cent of the population. ...
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Lagarde grilled for second day over payout
IMF chief Christine Lagarde is being grilled for a second day over the 2007 payout to a disgraced tycoon during her tenure as France's finance ...
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Comment Wait there are riots in Sweden
The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 per cent of the population. ...
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Far East quake felt 7000km away in Moscow
An 8.2 quake in Russia's Far East was felt thousands of kilometres away in Moscow, but there has been no damage, and a tsunami warning has been ...
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Extra police in London after brutal attack
An extra 1200 police officers have been deployed to the streets of London to reassure the public after the brazen murder of soldier Lee ...
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Analysis Wait there are riots in Sweden
The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 per cent of the population. ...
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UK murder suspects charged at cops
The two men who were shot, aged 22 and 28, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in hospital in a stable condition with non life-threatening injuries. (ITV ...
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Germany Skirts Recession In Q1 As Consumer Spending Recovers
economy thwart recession in the first quarter of 2013, detailed data from the Federal Statistical Office revealed Friday. However, the continued fall in firms' fixed asset investment and extreme weather conditions stifled the recovery. Nonetheless, the economy is likely to get further boost from consumers with market research group GfK predicting further improvement in consumer confidence ...
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Berlin Olympic Stadium to Host Champions League Final in 2015
London, May 24 (Prensa Latina) The Olympic stadium in Berlin will host the final game of the Champions League in 2015, announced the executive of the Union of European Soccer Associations (UEFA). The facility, built by the Nazi government for the Olympic Games of 1936, has seating capacity for 74,064 spectators. In 2006 it hosted the final of the Soccer World Cup won by Italy, and since 1985 has ...
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Mehriban Aliyeva holds meetings in National Assembly and Senate of France
On 23 May, the First Lady of Azerbaijan, head of the working group on Azerbaijan-French inter-parliamentary relations Mehriban Aliyeva held several meetings in the National Assembly and the Senate of France. According to Azertag, in particular, Mehriban Aliyeva met with the head of the Commission for European Affairs of the National Assembly of France Daniel Oroire. The sides exchanged views ...
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Strong Quake Shakes Russias Far East
An 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck Russia's Far East on Friday, with slight tremors felt thousands of miles away in Moscow. There were no reported injuries or damage, RIA Novosti informs. The earthquake occurred in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. Emergency agencies in the Far East issued a tsunami warning for Sakhalin and the ...
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Gender Differences In The Prescribing Of Analgesics In Spain
Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A study published in Gaceta Sanitaria (Spanish health scientific journal) affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between genders in the Autonomous Community in which the patient resides. In 1999, a researcher at the University of Harvard, Ishiro Kawachi, ...
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Tobacco Warning Images Proposed By The European Commission Should Be Reviewed As They Do Not Achieve The Desired Level Of Impact
The warning images Brussels proposes to include on tobacco packages in order to reduce consumption do not make the desired impact on smokers because they only find some of them really unpleasant. So, if the European Commission wants to improve the efficacy of its anti-smoking campaigns, it should produce a new set of images that make a stronger emotional impact. These are some of the ...
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The Torture of Children in a Russian Orphanage is Not Specific to Russia but a Result of the Secular System
On the 17th of May 2013, Russian TV, the UK Guardian and other media agencies reported on the publishing of a horrific video showing several boys under the age of ten, beaten with a belt and kicked by two teenage caretakers in a Russian orphanage. The appalling incident happened in the Mazanovsky orphanage in the region of ...
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ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup 2013 in Munich Germany 25-29 May
Sports News: The historical shooting venue of Munich is going to be crowded, in the following days. Over 700 athletes coming from 78 countries registered to take part in the 10 Olympic events of Rifle and Pistol shooting, to be conducted from the 25th to the 29th of May. An impressing overall number of 1205 starts were ...
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Tsunami warning in Russia’s Far East after 8.2 quake
MOSCOW--Russia on Friday issued a tsunami warning for the Sakhalin Island region in its Far East after a deep sea earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.2 by the USGS. ';Inhabitants need to leave dangerous regions and go to higher ground,'; the Sakhalin branch of the Russian emergencies ministry said in the warning. The USGS placed the epicenter of the quake in the Sea of Okhotsk of ...
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Two men arrested for mocking gruesome murder of soldier on Twitter
Rod Minchin - 24 May 2013 TWO men have been arrested for making alleged offensive comments on Twitter about the murder of a British ...
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Denmark's Russian relationship
Danish relations with Russia have existed for several centuries, with the first recorded diplomatic relations dating from 1493, when King Hans and Ivan III signed a treaty aimed at planning an offensive against Sweden and Lithuania. Since then the relations between the two countries have grown closer, frayed, become tense, reconciled and stagnated at different points throughout the history of their respective political development.
Denmark and Russia have always been economically and politically important to one another though. Denmark, since the end of the Cold War, has acted as a bridge between the east and west, and during much of the tumultuous politics of the post-war and Cold War period, remained largely neutral in many affairs concerning Russia. In 1939 the country refused to support measures to expel Russia from the then-League of Nations, and resisted attempts by Nordic countries to set up a defense alliance for the region. Read more
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