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US Sees Climate of Intolerance on Global Religious Freedom
The United States said the right to global religious freedom was challenged last year, with governments often creating a "climate of intolerance" leading to hatred and violence. In an annual report, the State Department said Monday government officials worldwide are often allowed to act with impunity while violating the religious rights of their countrymen. It said there often is ...
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Ugandan Police Shut Down Newspaper Offices
NAIROBI -- Police in Uganda's capital have closed down the offices of the Daily Monitor. According to the Daily Monitor's senior correspondent, police have declared the premises of their publication a crime scene and are doing a thorough search of the building. Earlier this month, the Daily Monitor published a series of stories about Uganda's coordinator of intelligence ...
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Russian Billionaire Lebedev Pleads Not Guilty in Court
MOSCOW -- Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev has pleaded not guilty to charges of hooliganism motivated by political hatred. Lebedev says that he is being targeted by Russian President Vladimir Putin because Putin believes he is funding the opposition. Alexander Lebedev, co-owner of Novaya Gazeta, Russia's leading opposition newspaper, went on trial Monday in a Moscow court. Lebedev ...
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Deadly Tornadoes Tear Through US Midwest
Zach Champion walks through the rubble of his mobile home looking for his belongings, in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, destroyed in Sunday's tornado, near Shawnee, Oklahoma, May 20, ...
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Iran Russia Hezbollah Top Backers in Syrian Regimes Success
The protracted fighting in Syria is not happening within a bubble, amid reports of clandestine support for the Bashar al Assad regime from Hezbollah, Iran and Russia, and an ongoing effort to establish an international peace ...
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Mourinho to leave Real Madrid at end of season
Jos Mourinho will leave Real Madrid CF at the end of the season after a three-year tenure that brought a record-breaking Liga campaign and three UEFA Champions League ...
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France must reform or face punitive measures - EUs Oettinger
Reuters © European Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger addresses a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels June 6, 2012. REUTERS/Laurent ...
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Dream return for Hanley in Germany
Cameron Hanley returned to the Grand Prix winner's podium in Germany after a near two-year absence caused by a freak accident to his knee that resulted in a total of 17 operations. Competing at the five-star Riders' Tour Grand Prix in Wiesbaden, the Mayo-born rider and the 10-year-old gelding Antello Z collected €19,000 after seeing off a strong international challenge in the ...
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Car bombs in south Russia leave at least 8 people dead
MOSCOW--At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Monday in twin car blasts outside a court building in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala in the restless region of ...
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Bankia compensation qualms hurt faith in Spains banks
MADRID--Many duped savers at Spanish lender Bankia are shunning a state-supervised compensation scheme in favor of expensive lawsuits, prolonging a misselling scandal and complicating efforts to restore faith in the banking ...
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ITE Groups first-half profit falls 15 on rising costs lack of 2 Russia events
Corporate event planner ITE Group PLC reported a 15-percent fall in first-half profit, hurt by rising overhead costs and the absence of two key biennial events in ...
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Rioters in Sweden protest alleged brutality racism after police shoot elderly man
Violence Rioters took to the streets of a Stockholm neighborhood on Sunday, torching cars and throwing stones at police. Officers reportedly called residents "monkeys" and other derogatory terms as they protested against a recent police shooting. Between 60 to 100 people - most of them young men - took part in the riots which began around 10pm local time in the Stockholm district of ...
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Anzhi Takes Bronze in Russia’s Football Premier League
MOSCOW, May 20 (R-Sport) - Anzhi Makhachkala cemented a best-ever third place in the Russian Premier League on Monday after Samuel Eto'o's goal gave Guus Hiddink's side a 2-1 win over Lokomotiv Moscow. The Cameroonian forward nodded home at the back post on 74 minutes to give the billionaire-backed side three points that take them out of range of Spartak Moscow and FC Kuban, the ...
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Briton Julian Stevenson under formal investigation in Lyon over murder of own children
A divorced British father with a history of drunkenness and domestic violence was formally accused of the murder of his two children, who were found with their throats cut in his apartment in southern ...
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Pope statue unveiled in Italian potato field
NAPLES, Italy (AFP) – The first-ever statue of Pope Francis has been unveiled in a potato field near Naples — an unorthodox homage to the fact that the Argentine pope’s ancestors were farmers in northern Italy. The statue will be presented to the pope next month by Italian actor Barbato De Stefano, who comes from the village of Cicciano where it was presented and has financed ...
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NASAs 19-Gigapixel Filmstrip of the Earth from Russia to South Africa
series of 56 images shortly thereafter. NASA stitched the pictures together into one long strip, which you can tour in the video above. As always, satellite images testify to the wonder of the biosphere. This particular set of pictures, though, is a simple meditation on the diversity of conditions on Earth, and the mark that humanity has left on the ...
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Three killed in Spain military base blast
THREE people have died and two others were injured in an explosion at a military base in the southern Spanish province of Almeria. The cause of Monday's blast at the headquarters of the Spanish Legion's Sappers Unit is under investigation, Major Eleuterio Ciego told EFE. One of the injured was taken to a hospital, while the other was treated at the base infirmary. The Legion is an elite ...
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Pope Merkel discuss European affairs
Pope Francis met on May 18 with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for a discussion of European political, economic, and especially religious affairs. A brief Vatican statement released after the meeting said that special emphasis had been placed on "the protection of human rights, the persecution of Christians, religious freedom, and international collaboration for the promotion of ...
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32nd Turkish Day Parade and Festival
Annual Turkish Day Parade and Festival organized in New York NEW YORK - Turkish flag was raised at Wall Street in New York within the scope of annual Turkish Day organized by Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA).Turkey's United Nations (UN) Permanent Representative Halit Cevik, Turkish Consul General in New York Levent Bilgen, FTAA Director Ali Cinar, as well as politicians ...
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Turkish parade in New York is a show of power Turkish Minister
Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bagis said Turkish parade was a cultural show of power NEW YORK - Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis said, " Turkish Day Parade is a signal of Turkey's power, a cultural show of power." Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA) organized the 32thTurkish Day Parade in New York.Addressing the crowd after the parade, ...
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Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Kilic gives unity message at Anitkabir
Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Kilic gives unity message at Anitkabir ANKARA - Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Suat Kilic visited the Founder of the Republic of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's Mausoleum-Anitkabir on the occasion of May 19 Commemoration of Ataturk,Youth and Sports Day.Kilic laid a wreath on Ataturk's Mausoleum, and observed a minute of silence in his ...
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About 100 cars burned in riots sparked by police shooting in Sweden
About 100 vehicles were set ablaze in a riot in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, in what a group claims was a reaction to the police shooting of an elderly man. A car set on fire in a nearby garage caused about 50 people to be evacuated from their apartment building, the Swedish news agency TT reported Monday. Police said they were met by about 50 to 60 youths throwing stones when they responded ...
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As Europe struggles the Franco-German alliance turns testy
The relationship between France and Germany undergirds postwar Europe - and some worry the countries' increased sniping over economic woes is threatening the EU's ...
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Russia Two Militants Planning Terror Attack Killed Near Moscow
Russian officials said Monday that security forces killed two suspected militants and detained another, in a special operation near Moscow that thwarted a terrorist attack on the ...
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Coffee May Protect Against Liver Disease
Coffee lovers have another reason to rejoice as a new study claims that regular consumption of the popular beverage can reduce the risk of a rare but serious liver disease. According ...
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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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