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Brutal attack in London blamed on radical Islam
LONDON (AP) -- Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime - shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took them into ...
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Met Museums European paintings galleries will reopen on May 23
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's galleries for its world-renowned collection of European Old Master paintings from the 13th through the early 19th century will reopen on May 23 after an extensive renovation and reinstallation. This is the first major renovation of the galleries since 1951 and the first overall reinstallation of the collection since 1972. Increased in size by almost ...
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Human rights group Migrants face harsher treatment in Europe as economic turmoil stokes bias
FILE - In this March 8, 2013 file photo, a Syrian refugee tries to put out a fire as black smoke rises in the sky over the Zaatari refugee camp in northeast Jordan. A report on human rights issued by Amnesty International on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, the London Based human rights group said worldwide indifference to the plight of political and economic refugees is making the world a much more ...
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The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession Spain France Italy Finland Netherlands Portugal Cyprus Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German govern
The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession: Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German government of Angela Merkel is sinking Europe. Eurostat data was released on Wednesday (15th) and are relative to GDP in the euro area in the first ...
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British PM London Killing Appears to be Terrorism
British Prime Minister David Cameron says the daylight killing of a man on a south London street near an army barracks appears to be a terrorist ...
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Fola Esch seal long-awaited Luxembourger title
CS Fola Esch are celebrating their first Luxembourger title in 73 years thanks to an emphatic derby win against AS Jeunesse Esch which means they have an unassailable four-point ...
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Shakhtar overwhelm Chornomorets in final
FC Shakhtar Donetsk underlined their domestic dominance as a 3-0 win against FC Chornomorets Odesa in the Ukrainian Cup final wrapped up Mircea Lucescu's side's third successive ...
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UEFA Club Financial Control Body adjudicatory chamber announces decisions
The UEFA Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) adjudicatory chamber has met in Nyon, Switzerland, and has taken further decisions with regard to the cases mentioned in media release No. 83 of 21 December 2012: http://uefa.to/17EZkFKEight clubs had been sanctioned by the CFCB due to the presence of significant overdue payables and had to settle payments by 31 March 2013, in order to avoid the ...
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London attackers inspired by Boston
Police investigating the butchering of a man on London's streets have confirmed the arrests of two men, who may have been inspired by the Boston ...
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Woman confronted London terrorists
A mother confronted the two men who hacked to death a man in London, asking them to hand over their weapons and warning them: "It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose", it has been reported.Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, 48, told the Daily Telegraph that one of the attackers said to her that they wanted to start a war in London.The mother-of-two, a cub scout leader from ...
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Two arrested after UK mosque attacks
Following the terror killing of a man on London's streets. two men have been arrested for attacks on mosques, and protesters have thrown bottles at ...
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Polish surgeons complete life-saving face transplant
Polish doctors have pulled off a revolutionary face transplant this week. A 33-year-old who suffered a workplace accident received the life-saving transplant. "It is Poland's first face transplant and also the first in the world done to save the patient's life," Anna Uryga, spokeswoman for the Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology in ...
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Forbes most powerful women list has Germanys Angela Merkel on top
world leaders who control nations with a combined $11.8 trillion GDP and corporations valued at $893 billion collectively. "We've selected women that go beyond the traditional taxonomy of the power elite (political and economic might)," Forbes' Caroline ...
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Germany rolls out red carpet
/enpproperty--> Berlin is "making special arrangements" to welcome Premier Li Keqiang during his upcoming visit to show the European power's determination to deepen strategic relations with the world's second-biggest economy, Shi Mingde, the Chinese ambassador to Germany, told China Daily before Li's visit. Li, who is on his first tour to Europe since taking ...
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People on the move Greek police beat a tortured Turkish woman
I understood that they were swearing at me. The female police officer was holding my hair.One of the male officers punched me in my face.My beating went on for approximately five minutes. Then the guard from the Exarheia police station heard my screams, entered the room and tried to take me away from [them]..I was then transferred again to the Exarheia police station where I spent ...
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Robben Van Persie named in Netherlands squad
Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal has named a strong squad for the upcoming friendlies in Asia, with Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie named alongside the recalled Erik Pieters and John ...
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European banks stop sending money to North Korea aid groups
BEIJING (Reuters) - European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the wake of U.S. sanctions on Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank, leaving them scrambling for a solution short of hand-carrying cash into the impoverished ...
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US Officially Acknowledges Drone Strike Killings
The U.S. Justice Department has formally acknowledged that the United States has killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan since ...
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Italian Judge Orders Criminal Trial for Costa Concordia Captain
An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia to stand trial for the deaths of 32 passengers. Captain Francesco Schettino has been charged with manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, and abandoning ship before all the passengers were safe. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. The Costa Concordia struck rocks and capsized off the coast of ...
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Austria Wien cap unbelievable year with title
Coach Peter Stger paid tribute to an FK Austria Wien that never give less than 100% after they wrapped up their 24th Austrian Bundesliga title in style, avoiding a potentially thorny final ...
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Budućnost celebrate first Montenegrin Cup
FK Buducnost Podgorica "deserved" their 1-0 win against ten-man holders FK Celik Niksic in the Montenegrin Cup final, according to victorious coach Radisav ...
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Israeli embassy slams Germany party over labeling
BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an economic boycott of it."In a statement ...
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Mum asked London attackers to hand over their weapons
22 May 2013 A mother confronted the Woolwich attackers, asking them to hand over their weapons and warning them: "It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose", it was reported ...
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US pushes Europe to amend arms embargo on Syrian rebels
John Kerry , the US secretary of state, has been urging the EU to reach consensus on a change that would allow weapons to be delivered to the rebels - though without any decision to do so at this stage.Diplomatic sources said on Wednesday that Britain now has the support of France, Italy and Spain, while Germany is neutral. But Austria, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic are still opposed. ...
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Hagel Hails Netherlands as Strong U.S. NATO Partner
American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 – Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel hosted the Netherlands' Minister of Defense Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert at the Pentagon today, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little ...
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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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