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Putin to Meet with Council of Europe Secretary General
MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will on Monday meet with Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland, the Kremlin reported. Jagland arrived in Russia on a three-day working visit on Sunday. The visit's program will start Monday when the Council of Europe chief meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. The ...
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British skier falls to his death in French Alps
The man, who has not been named, was out with another skier when they were caught in a storm as they descended the challenging Vallee Blanche near Chamonix.He plunged down the north face of the Aiguille du Midi mountain after the pair decided to return to the cable car because of dangerously high winds and blizzards.Mountain rescue teams have yet to recover his body.Captain Patrice Ribes, of ...
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European data plan labelled ‘demented’
European Commission data protection plans are the biggest threat currently facing the UK economy, a senior Downing Street figure said this week. Rohan Silva, the senior policy adviser behind the government's Tech City initiative, described the draft European data protection plan as 'a completely demented set of regulations'. The new regulation, designed to update and harmonise ...
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Washington Week Focus on Burma US Government Scandals
WASHINGTON -- A groundbreaking visit by Burma’s president and continuing probes of U.S. government scandals highlight a busy week ahead in Washington. Six months after President Barack Obama visited Rangoon, President Thein Sein reciprocates Monday with a visit to the White House. Last November, Obama hailed democratic reforms in Burma. "A dictatorship of five decades has ...
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Turkish bond yields reach record lows
But there are problems associated with economic growth and Erdogan, who is visiting Washington, is concerned that investor enthusiasm is attracting money into the country too quickly, and is artificially boosting the value of the Turkish ...
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Henrik Sedin leads Sweden to gold at Worlds with 5-1 win over Switzerland
Team USA's Alex Galchenyuk scores the winning shootout goal against Finland goalie Antti Raanta during bronze medal final action at the world hockey championship in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sunday, May 19, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques ...
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Reprisal heat on EU for carbon levy
New Delhi, May 19: India is gearing up to retaliate against the European Union's plan to slap penalties on two domestic airlines ' Air India and Jet Airways ' for failing to pay carbon emission fees. India has made it clear that it will oppose the EU measure. "We have not received any information regarding the fines. As far as we know, the scheme has been postponed," ...
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Soccer-European roundup-Arsenal Milan qualify for Champions League
Arsenal beat North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur to England's fourth Champions League spot, their 1-0 victory over Newcastle on the final day of the Premier League season enough to ensure their place in Europe's showpiece competition. In Serie ...
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HM Led Labor Breakthrough by European Retailers
the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed in one of the worst industrial disasters in history, a brash human-rights ad went viral. It paired a smiling photo of the chief executive of H&M, the Swedish retailer that is world's largest buyer of clothes from Bangladesh, with a picture of an anguished woman at the Rana Plaza ...
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Switzerland goes after Indian tourists from smaller cities and towns
NEW DELHI, India - As summer holidays beckon, Switzerland is wooing first time Indian travelers from smaller cities and towns offering the experience of snow clad mountains like Titlis and Jungfraujoch. Switzerland Tourism, responsible for promotion of the country's tourism, is looking beyond the affluent Indians from metros, as it looks to increase the number of tourists by moving to tier ...
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European Roundup-Arsenal Milan Qualify for Champions League
(Reuters) - Arsenal beat North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur to England's fourth Champions League spot, their 1-0 victory over Newcastle on the final day of the Premier League season enough to ensure their place in Europe's showpiece competition. In Serie A, AC Milan scored twice in last six minutes to snatch a place in the Champions League qualifying round while Porto clinched their ...
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Relief for Milan and Arsenal joy for Porto
AC Milan grabbed a UEFA Champions League place in thrilling circumstances and Arsenal FC also did what was required, on a weekend when unbeaten FC Porto were crowned in ...
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Wolfsburg win maiden German Womens Cup
VfL Wolfsburg remain in the hunt for a historic treble after defeating 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 3-2 to clinch the German Women's Cup for the first time in their ...
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Switzerland take silver at world championships
The European Court of Justice could settle differences between Switzerland and the European Union over their future bilateral relationship, a top Swiss diplomat has told the NZZ am Sonntag ...
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Pedrosa wins in France takes MotoGP lead
France Honda's Dani Pedrosa won the French MotoGP at Le Mans on Monday morning from Cal Crutchlow to take the lead in the world championship standings.The Spaniard, following up his win in Spain last time out, made light of the tricky early wet conditions to cross the line five seconds clear of Crutchlow.The Briton manfully shrugged off a fracture to his right shin in a crash in ...
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US-Russia 2013 Spy Row
Ryan Fogle, the man Russia's security services claimed to have captured last week as he tried to recruit a Russian to spy for the United States, left Russia on Sunday, NTV television ...
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EU criticizes Russia’s human rights record
EU commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva gives a press conference on the humanitarian crisis in Syria and the region, in this May 14, 2013 at the EU Headquarters in Brssels. ...
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Indian Chinese Leaders Discuss Border Dispute
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his visiting Chinese counterpart Sunday discussed efforts to resolve a decades-old border dispute between the world's two most populous ...
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Nigeria says 14 Militants 3 Soldiers Killed in Latest Fighting
Nigeria's military says it killed 14 Boko Haram militants and captured 20 others Sunday, as it presses its offensive against the al-Qaida-linked group in the country's restive ...
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Video U.S. diplomat accused of spying departs Russia
Ryan Fogle, a U.S. diplomat Moscow accused of trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer to work as a spy for the CIA, left Russia on ...
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Sweden hammers Switzerland to collect world hockey gold on home ice
Sweden's Loui Eriksson (C) celebrates his goal against Switzerland with teammates Erik Gustafsson and Gabriel Landeskog during their 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship final match at the Globe Arena in Stockholm May 19, 2013. (GRIGORY ...
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Sweden wins world hockey title
Swedish players react after winning the 2013 Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships gold medal match against Switzerland, at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Martti Kainulainen) FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY ...
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Sleep problems an Alzheimers warning
Breathing difficulties during sleep may be an early warning sign of future Alzheimer's disease, researchers believe.Experts are not sure how sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and Alzheimer's are linked.But evidence suggests some people who suffer from the sleep problem may already be starting to develop pre-symptomatic dementia.SDB is an umbrella term for a group of conditions that ...
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Britiain should have voted against crazy EU rule on serving olive oil say MPs
British officials should have voted against a "crazy" European Union ban on restaurants serving olive oil in jugs or dishes, MPs have ...
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Dire outlook despite warming pause
While the last decade was the hottest since records began in 1880, the rate of increase showed a stabilisation despite ever-rising levels of Earth-warming greenhouse gases in 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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