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Obama Nuclear Arms Pitch More About Legacy Than Russia – Analysts
WASHINGTON, June 19 (By Carl Schreck for RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama’s desire to pursue nuclear arms cuts with Russia offers fertile ground for cooperation with Moscow but is above all about securing an enduring security legacy, a range of experts said Wednesday. "The nuclear issue itself is a special interest of Obama’s – he’s deeply passionate ...
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Body of Todashev Shot During Questioning in US Flown to Russia
the Boston Marathon bombing , was flown to Moscow on Wednesday. "We are already in Moscow," said Todashev’s father Abdulbaki, who accompanied the coffin on a flight from the United States. "Tomorrow I intend to take my son’s body to Grozny on a passenger plane," he said, adding that he would press for a post-mortem examination in Russia. Todashev, 27, was shot ...
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EU strikes deal on long-term budget but approval in doubt
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Negotiators reached a provisional deal on Wednesday to finalise the European Union's 960 billion euro (824 billion pounds) long-term budget, but ratification of the deal was immediately thrown into doubt by a leading socialist lawmaker in the talks. The deal between representatives of EU member states and the European Parliament on a seven-year spending package needs ...
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EU fines drugs firms 150 mn euros for delaying cheap generics
The EU executive on Wednesday imposed hefty fines of around 150 million euros on pharmaceutical firms including Denmark's Lundbeck for colluding to delay the sale a decade ago of a cheap generic version of a widely sold anti-depressant. Lundbeck was fined 93.8 million euros by the European Commission for striking a 2002 agreement with producers of generic drugs to delay the introduction on ...
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Obamas call for nuke negotiations with Russia suggests a slow road to new reductions
WASHINGTON - By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for co-operation from a former Cold War foe in no mood to agree. Relations between Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are tense, reflecting U.S. concerns about human rights abuses in Russia, the two leaders' disagreement ...
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Two arrested after €150k drugs seizure in Cork
Two men have been arrested following a drugs seizure in Co Cork.Garda stopped and searched a car close to an area known as Halfway in Ballinhassig outside of Cork city earlier today and recovered 25kg of cannabis resin with an estimated street value of EUR150,000.The two occupants of the car, a local man in his early 40's and a man in his 30's from Dublin, were arrested at the scene. ...
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Minnesota to open trade office in Dusseldorf Germany
The state of Minnesota will open a new foreign trade office in the Dusseldorf, Germany, to promote exports and foreign investments in the state, Katie Clark Sieben, the state commissioner of employment and economic development, announced Wednesday. Clark Sieben and Gov. Mark Dayton revealed the location during a conference call with Minnesota reporters from Berlin, where they are wrapping up a ...
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Trafficking in Persons Report U.S. downgrades Russia China
Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The TIP report ranks governments, including the United States, on their efforts to combat and prevent human trafficking. While Tier 1 is the highest ranking, it does not mean that a country has no human trafficking problem. The TIP report ranks countries into one of three tiers based on their level of compliance with the minimum standards for the elimination ...
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Tornado hits city in Italys Piedmont region
A tornado hit the small northern Italian city of Biella, uprooting trees and causing some damage Wednesday morning. The tornado developed during a storm that dumped heavy rain on the area in the Piedmont in the foothills of the Alps in northwestern Italy, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Several buildings lost their roofs and two trees believed to be centuries old were toppled near the ...
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Welcome to Russia’s Syria doublespeak
joint communique on Syria at the end of the G8 summit, the closing media remarks made it clear that Vladimir Putin hasn’t actually moved an inch on the issue. The Russian president once again lashed out at the European Union and the United States for considering arms shipments to the Syrian opposition, suggesting it will further destabilize Syria. At the same time, he made it clear that ...
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Life is good for Germanys economy. But is it good for Germans
While the German economy is being held up as the model for ailing Europe to follow, some Germans say that the benefits of the boom aren't reaching ...
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Mayotte issue to split or join Comoros France
Despite heavy protests from Comoros, the Comoran island Mayotte soon will become a department and an integrated part of France. The move could further divide France and Comoros, or bring them closer ...
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Germany register narrow win against Canada
Germany 1-0 CanadaLeonie Maier scored in the second half as the European champions followed up their weekend win against Scotland with another ...
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Resilient Brazil peg back Sweden
UEFA Women's EURO on Twitter Sweden made the perfect start at the Sderstadion when Nilla Fischer headed in an Antonia Gransson corner in the sixth minute, and the two combined to produce the best of the home side's other chances in the game. However, the finals hosts were pegged back when Andressa levelled from the penalty spot.Sweden's strong start included not only the opening ...
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Experts to re-examine Knox DNA clues
Contradictions and illogical conclusions in the ruling that freed US student Amanda Knox from jail mean DNA evidence will be re-examined from scratch and witnesses may be re-heard, her lawyer says."We were very surprised, we took it very badly," Luciano Ghirga said in reference to a damning report released by Italy's highest appeals court explaining why it quashed the acquittal of ...
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Kate opts for a natural birth
The Duchess of Cambridge is hoping to have a natural birth at St Mary's Hospital in London, sources say, and she does not know the baby's ...
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Call for sensitive coverage of royal birth
St James Palace has called for "sensitive reporting" of the royal birth in light of the 2012 suicide of a nurse who was prank called by two Australian DJs.The plea came as it was revealed the Duchess of Cambridge wants a natural birth for her baby, who will be third in line to the throne.Sources have confirmed Kate plans a natural delivery at the private Lindo wing of St Mary's ...
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Venezuela and France Announce New Stage of Bilateral Relations
Paris, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) The presidents of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and France, , today described as very positive their meeting at the Elysee Palace and announced a new stage of bilateral cooperation relations. Speaking to reporters after the meeting of nearly an hour, the Venezuelan president said before returning home, that in July there will be the fourth high-level joint commission ...
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Julian Assange Completes One Year in Asylum
Quito, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Julian Assange''s political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London reached a year today and he could remain there until the period for extradition expires. The 41-year-old Australian citizen could remain here in that condition until at least 2022, in a more complex case of asylum each time, which could cost the United Kingdom around $62 million USD and ...
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Housing Authority with €2 million deficit carcinogenetic particles found at SVPR dental clinic
Pensions, residential homes, social housing and disability issues dominate consultation meeting with Family Minister Marie Louise Coleiro Preca and parliamentary secretary for the elderly Franco ...
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European markets mixed ahead of Federal Reserve policy announcement
European stock markets fluctuated on Wednesday moving cautiously higher, as investors remained wary ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision, on fears it could signal a potential slowdown in the bank’s 85 billion monthly bond buying ...
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European Commission fines drug companies for delaying generics
drug manufacturers , including Denmark’s Lundbeck, Germany’s Merck, Ranbaxy Laboratories, Arrow Group and Zoetis Products, for colluding to keep a generic drug off the market. Officials for the commission, the European Union’s anti-trust regulator, claim that the companies agreed not to introduce generic versions of Lundbeck’s antidepressant citalopram when its basic ...
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Stripes set to be big for Dolce and Gabbana as fashion designers get 20 months in prison for tax evasion
A court in the fashion capital of Milan found the pair guilty of failing to declare EUR1bn (860m) of income.Prosecutors said the designers sold their D&G and Dolce & Gabbana brands to their own holding company, Gabo, in Luxembourg in 2004 for EUR360m - a third of its market value - to slash their tax liability.This, plus other dodges, meant the designers owed more than EUR400m in tax. ...
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Soccer-Spain B team unlikely to show amateurs Tahiti any mercy
Confederations Cup on Thursday but are unlikely to show any mercy in what is expected to be a one-sided carnival of soccer at the Maracana stadium. One of the more unlikely competitive matches in any major FIFA competition pits the amateurs from the South Pacific against a team that has won two European titles and the World Cup in the last five years and earned comparisons with the great ...
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Tory grassroots ready to be swayed on EU
A majority of grassroots Conservatives have said they would vote to leave the European Union but would be prepared to change their view if David Cameron successfully renegotiated the UK’s membership, according to a ...
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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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