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European cities driving visitor growth
City tourism forms the backbone of new optimism for European destination visitor arrivals growth, according to new research. The new data has been pulled from the latest European City Tourism Monitor by European Cities Marketing (ECM). 66 percent of participants forecast an increase during the second quarter of 2013 and an overall increase in bed-nights for the whole year. The ...
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Russian twin blasts kill 4 injure 35
At least four people were killed and 35 others injured when twin blasts hit Russia's Dagestan republic, local law enforcement authorities said ...
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Russia Urges EU to Avoid Ideology-Based Remarks on NGO Law
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday urged the European Union to abstain from "ideology-based" remarks on the issue of non-governmental organizations in Russia. The statement, posted on the ministry’s website, was made in the wake of the May 17 meeting between the Foreign Ministry's Special Representative for Human Rights, Democracy and the ...
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James Moore CBI right to be jittery over European exit
Its citizens aren't particularly receptive to being lectured by big and wealthy businesses, or their trade bodies, at the best of times. Now is not the best of times, with a flatlining economy, a national mood of profound discontent and the perception that big business equals tax cheat.All the same, its intervention is necessary. The Europhobic populists are putting across an argument that ...
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The 14th Annual BioEquity Europe Conference Features 96 Innovator Companies With Differentiated Products Upcoming ...
The 14th Annual BioEquity Europe Conference Features 96 Innovator Companies With Differentiated Products, Upcoming Milestones and Partner-Ready ...
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European shares up as FTSE DAX hit records
European stock markets rose to fresh highs in muted holiday trading on Monday despite weak Italian economic data following strong start to the new week for Asian equity prices. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares added 0.48 per cent to hit a 13-year closing high of 6,755.63 points. Meanwhile in Frankfurt the DAX 30 index set a fresh record high close after climbing 0.69 per cent to ...
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UK exit from EU would be lossloss scenario warns Goldman Sachs
news ) has warned in a note. Kevin Daly, part of the investment bank's economic team, has concluded that a British departure from the EU would result in a "loss/loss scenario" in which both the UK and the rest of the bloc would be damaged. But in a note to investors, Mr Daly added that Goldman does not expect an in/out referendum because the Tories first need to win an ...
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EU parliament to debate tax evasion
The European Parliament is due to meet to debate ways to tackle tax evasion, ahead of an EU summit on the issue. The EU says 1tn euros ($1.3tn; 0.85tn) a year are lost in member states via tax evasion, seven times the EU budget. There is anger over revelations about Greek and French politicians holding secret Swiss bank accounts. MEPs are expected to call for a Europe-wide blacklist of tax ...
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France must reform or face punitive measures EU
India will mandate that all firms offering internet telephony, including Skype owned by software giant Microsoft, must set up a server in the ...
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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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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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