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London Journal Gnomes Pop Up at Chelsea Flower Show to Horror of Many
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Lothar Schmid Chess Referee Dies at 85
Lothar Schmid, a German chess grandmaster who was the referee for three of the most contentious World Chess Championship matches ever played, including the volatile 1972 contest between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, which he may have saved by negotiating a truce just as it seemed they were both about to quit, died Saturday in Bamberg, Germany. He was 85. His death was confirmed on ...
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Sweden grabs world title on home ice
/enpproperty--> Sweden battled back from a goal down to grab its ninth world ice hockey title on Sunday with a 5-1 win over unfancied Switzerland. Vancouver Canucks center Henrik Sedin collected two goals and an assist, while goalkeeper Jhonas Enroth made 26 saves to avenge a 3-2 defeat in the preliminary round. The win has also ended the home-ice curse that prevented the ...
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Frances Danone launches joint projects with Mengniu
/enpproperty--> French food giant Groupe Danone SA has invested in two joint projects with China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd, a move that will help improve Danone's sliding market share in China and restore consumers' confidence in the country's dairy market. Danone will invest about 325 million euros ($417.17 million) in the projects. Through the deals, Mengniu will likely ...
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Chinese Greenland and Melia open the first Greenland hotel in Europe.
The hotel has been adapted to the needs of demanding Chinese travellers and with the standards of a modern international hotel.Both companies continue to make progress in a partnership which will see the growth of ...
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British Deep Water Diver Dies At Italy Wreck
A British man has died during a dive on a wreck in Italy, coastguard officials have confirmed. The man was in a group of six divers taking part in a week-long programme involving several deep water explorations on ships that had been sunk during World War Two. Coastguard officials said the man had been diving at a depth of around 300 feet when he got into difficulty and died shortly after ...
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European Space Agency names first Briton for space station mission
The European Space Agency says a former army helicopter pilot is to be Britain's first official astronaut to go to the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake, 41, is set for a five-month mission to the ISS in 2015 in a move being called a major boost for Britain's space industry, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Peake has been awaiting a mission assignment since graduating ...
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NATO commanders denounced in Spain for committing war crimes
A human rights association in Spain has denounced five NATO commanders of the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan for committing war crimes in the war-torn ...
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Italy’s Petri Dish for New Path
In ordinary circumstances, broken campaign promises might be given grudging latitude by the public, the track record of Italy's politicians being what it is. But Parma is the first major city whose administration is being run by the Five Star Movement, which has presented itself as a nearly revolutionary alternative to a political system it dismisses as ossified and out of ...
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Euro rebounds yen gains
THE euro has rebounded against the dollar after sharp losses last week, while the yen also pushed higher after Japan's economy minister said it may have fallen far ...
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Euro Outlook and Levels
Euro Outlook and Levels This is an important week for the euro. For the past month, investors have been selling euros and buying dollars on the premise that the Eurozone is in recession, U.S. is in recovery and the ECB is considering more stimulus at a time when the Fed is considering less. All of these assumptions will be tested this week with key event risks on both sides of the Atlantic. For ...
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Turkish Airlines flies US couple to Bangladesh instead Senegal
Two US holidaymakers found themselves a long way from their intended destination after an airline confused two airport codes. Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo were intending to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar in Senegal with Turkish Airlines. However, instead they ended up about 11,000km away - on an entirely different continent - in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, after the airport ...
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Boruch Spiegel Who Battled Nazis in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Dies at 93
Boruch Spiegel, one of the last surviving fighters of the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943, in which a vastly outgunned band of 750 young Jews held off German soldiers for more than a month with crude arms and Molotov cocktails, died on May 9 in Montreal. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his son, Julius, a retired parks commissioner of Brooklyn. Mr Spiegel lived in ...
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Gul approves draft law on liberalization of Turkish railways
New law foresees establishment of Turkish Railways Corporation ANKARA - Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Tuesday approved a draft law on the liberalization of Turkish railways.The new law foresees the establishment of Turkish Railways Corporation.President Gul sent the law to the Turkish Prime Ministry for publication in the Official Gazette. Tuesday, April 30, ...
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Russia orders deportation of CIA spy
The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB, former KGB) arrested in the early hours of Tuesday (14th) U.S. diplomat Ryan Christopher Fogle, accused of trying to recruit a counterterrorism officer of the Russian security services, in a new episode of the war of spies between Moscow and Washington. The U.S. agent was attached to the American ...
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Mallorca beat Betis to keep survival hopes alive
RCD Mallorca climbed off the foot of the Liga table as Tomer Hemed's first-half goal rewarded an enterprising performance againstReal Betis Balompi with the ...
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UK MPs bid to foil gay marriage bill
Divisions over plans to legalise gay marriage have been exposed in Britain, as MPs voted to scupper the government's proposals by allowing straight couples to take up civil partnerships.Faced with a possible House of Commons defeat, ministers on Monday adopted a Labour amendment to immediately review allowing heterosexual couples to tie the knot in civil partnerships.The government ...
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Church of Scotland moves to gay clergy
Senior members of the Church of Scotland have voted to let some congregations choose ministers who are in same-sex relationships - an important compromise that must still pass further hurdles before it can become church law.The church's General Assembly on Monday backed a motion affirming a traditional conservative view on homosexuality, but permitted liberal congregations to ordain openly ...
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The Met’s New European Galleries
Something monumental has been happening, by stealthy stages, to art in New York. On May 23rd, it will stand fully revealed: the architectural renovation and wholesale rehanging of the Metropolitan Museum’s core collections of pre-modern European art, enlarged by the annexation of galleries formerly devoted to temporary exhibitions. The revamp has added or moved hundreds of paintings. New, ...
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Miami’s City National Bank is a focus of a former Spanish banker’s problems in Spain
City National Bank of Florida’s net income: 2007: $68.4 million 2008: $42.5 million 2009: ($9.0 million) 2010: ($436.5 million) 2011: $34.4 million 2012: $190.2 ...
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Rape by American Soldiers in World War II France
The soldiers who landed in Normandy on D-Day were greeted as liberators, but by the time American G. ...
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Obama Tell Italys Leader U.S. Wants to Help
The United States wants to help Europe beat its economic crisis while respecting budget discipline, US President Barack Obama said Monday in a telephone call with Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta. Both the European Union and the US were badly affected by the global financial crisis that started in 2008, but in the first quarter of 2013, the US economy grew at an annual rate of 1.8 per ...
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European Medicines Agency Starts Review of Combined Use Of Drugs That Block The Renin-Angiotensin System
The European Medicines Agency said last week that it was initiating a review of the combined use of agents that block the renin-angiotensin system (RAS). The three classes of RAS-blocking drugs ...
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Business leaders including Sir Richard Branson warn over cost of European Union exit
The Virgin Group founder was among 20 business leaders who signed an open letter claiming Eurosceptic MPs are putting 'politics before economics'.It claims being a member of the EU is worth up to £92 billion a year in income gains, which equates to between £1,200 and £3,500 per household.The letter was also signed by Sir Win Bischoff, the chairman of Lloyds Banking ...
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EU draft bank rescue law would not shield big deposits
* EU law to shield small savers in bank rescues * Deposits over 100,000 euro may be affected * Deal establishes national resolution funds * Needs approval of EU finance ministers By Claire Davenport STRASBOURG, France, May 20 (Reuters) - A draft law that a group of European Union lawmakers voted for on Monday would shield small depositors from losing their savings in future bank rescues, ...
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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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