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Stockholm riots spread to districts after fatal police shooting
Gangs of youths have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural center as riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread to other low-income areas of the Swedish ...
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European Union Sacrifices Serb Self-Determination—Again
The Balkans Wars ended years ago, but ethnic divisions remain strong, promoted, unfortunately, by the European Union. The latest example of geopolitical malpractice is the EU-brokered agreement for Serbia's de facto recognition of Kosovo's independence. Two decades of America's and Europe's toxic mix of diplomacy and war-making followed one consistent policy: the Serbs ...
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UK Denmark eyes visas for Afghan interpreters
LONDON (AP) -- Britain and Denmark are proposing to give hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside their troops the right to settle in the U.K. and Denmark in recognition of the risks to their personal ...
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Asian Gold Premiums Hit New Highs as Europe Urged to Start Agressive QE
London Gold Market ReportBULLION prices rose throughout Asian and early London trade on Wednesday morning, touching $1398 per ounce for the third time this week and recovering 4.4% from Monday's one-month low.Silver rose more steadily, and was capped below $22.80 as energy prices slipped and agricultural commodities held flat.Tuesday's retreat in the gold price today ...
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EUROPE MARKETS Europe Stocks Slide Ahead Of Bernanke Comments
LONDON – European stock markets slid from multiyear highs on Wednesday, as investors stayed cautious ahead of comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.The Stoxx Europe 600 index lost 0.5% to 308.49, retreating from the highest closing level since June 2008, reached on Tuesday.Among the biggest decliners, shares of Kazakhmys PLC dropped 4.8%, after UBS cut the miner to ...
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Germany backs call to put Hezbollah armed wing on EU terror list
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany will throw its weight behind a British drive to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations, German diplomats said on ...
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Major Event in Germany Promoting European Magnitsky Sanctions Cancelled Because German Government Refuses to Grant Safe Passage to William Browder from Politically Motivated Russian Arrest Warrant
Release 22 May 2013 - German authorities have refused to grant William Browder, the leader of the global campaign for justice for Sergei Magnitsky, safe passage to Germany from a politically motivated Russian arrest warrant, resulting in the cancellation of the European Magnitsky Law event, scheduled in Berlin on 27 May 2013. In the latest development concerning the Magnitsky sanctions, the ...
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‘Kill bankers not yourselves’ says Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn
03/10/2012 15:34 CET A member of the Greek parliament from the far right party Golden Dawn has urged desperate people in the country to "kill those who are responsible for their problems" rather than commit suicide. He defines "those who are responsible" as bankers. Ilias Panagiotaros made the comments during an interview for ...
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EU leaders talk tax at Brussels summit
02/05/2013 19:21 CET European leaders gathered in Brussels on Wednesday, to discuss ways of tackling tax evasion and avoidance. Investigations in Britain, France and the US have exposed how little tax major companies have been paying, through careful structuring of their European operations. A probe revealed on Monday that Apple had paid just two percent tax on 57 billion euros in overseas ...
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Obesity costing Irish economy more than €1bn per year
Leading health experts say obesity is costing the Irish economy more than EUR1bn every year. That is according to data being examined at a conference at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in Dublin today. More than 60% of Irish people are now overweight or obese, an issue delegates say is causing a number of diseases including diabetes, heart disease and multiple types of cancer. Dr Anne ...
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4 Turkish nationals get 90 years each for poisoning deaths
Four Turkish nationals each received 90 years in prison for serving tainted alcohol to a group of Russian tourists, killing five of them, officials said. A group of approximately 60 Russian tourists were visiting the Turkish Aegean resort of Bodrum in May 2011, when 21 of them fell ill from ingesting the bootlegged alcohol on a yacht tour. Five of them, all tour guides, died from poisoning. ...
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Euro climbs to one-week high vs dollar ahead of Bernanke
NEW YORK | Wed May 22, 2013 9:53am EDT NEW YORK May 22 (Reuters) - The euro climbed to a one-week high against the dollar and a fresh 3-1/2-year high against the yen on Wednesday ahead of testimony from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The euro was last up $1.2949, up 0.3 percent after climbing as high as $1.2958. The euro rose as high as 133.45 yen . Bernanke testifies to ...
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Campaigner against gay marriage in France kills himself in Notre Dame
The protests against the legalization of same-sex marriage in France has been surprisingly passionate and may have included yesterday's suicide in the symbolic heart of French ...
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New Issue-Nomura Europe prices 750 mln euro 2018 bond
Wed May 22, 2013 9:26am EDT May 22 (Reuters) -Following are terms and conditions of a bond priced on Wednesday. Borrower Nomura Europe Finance NV Issue Amount 750 million ...
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Afghan President Asks India for Military Aid
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has given a "wish list" of military equipment to India in hopes of securing more aid before international troops leave his country next ...
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Under-19 elite round day one
The qualifying round, played in autumn, is made up of 12 groups of four teams playing in one-venue mini-tournaments. The top two from each progress alongside the third-placed team with the best record against the top pair in their ...
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Credit rating firms sow doubt on euro zone bond rally
By Marius ZahariaLONDON (Reuters) - Credit rating firms say they could further downgrade the ratings of highly indebted euro zone countries, putting their bonds at risk of being pitched out of global indexes and reversing a fall in their borrowing costs.The view from the rating firms contrasts with the sanguine attitude of investors who, flush with central bank cash and reassured by the European ...
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Germany Backs Blacklisting of Hezbollahs Military Wing
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has expressed his support for blacklisting Hezbollah's military wing in the EU, officials have said. "In the light of discussions we have had with our partners following the terrorist attack in Burgas, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle supports listing at least the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in the EU," German ...
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April Jones murder accused admits lying about military past
Bridger, 47, denies abduction, murder and intending to pervert the course of justice by disposing of, concealing or destroying April's body. Yesterday, the prosecution case against him came to an end and it is thought that Bridger will today take to the witness box to give his side of the story to the jury of nine women and three men at Mold Crown Court. April's disappearance, on ...
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Germany celebrates bicentennial of Richard Wagner
Germany today celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favour with the ...
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The great European Cup teams Ajax 1971-73 | Jonathan Wilson
In the second of our six-part series, we remember the revolutionary Ajax team created by Rinus Michels, and the Total Football that won them three successive ...
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Russia to launch 12 Proton-M rockets in 2013
Russia would launch 12 Proton-M heavy space rockets this year, Khrunichev space industry center said Wednesday.Three had already been launched and a further nine would be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Khrunichev CEO Alexander Seliverstov told reporters.Meanwhile, the new Angara-5 heavy rocket would be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far Eastern Amur region ...
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Russia to become next Greece’ with slowing economic growth - Renaissance Capital
Russian economy The Russian economy will not be able to grow faster than 2 percent per year in the coming decade and might become another Greece, says one of Russia's leading investment banking firms Renaissance Capital. This would mean the government increasing national debt just like it was in Greece.The slowing economic growth in Russia to 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013 has ...
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Brezhnev Pips Lenin as Russias Favorite 20th Century Ruler
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russians view Leonid Brezhnev as the most positive of all Soviet and Russian leaders in the 20th century, but Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were close behind in an opinion poll released on Wednesday. Brezhnev, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1964-1982, was viewed positively by 56 percent of respondents in the survey carried out by Moscow’s Levada ...
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Youths riot in Sweden for third night
A car set on fire burns, following riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista. Sweden's capital has been hit by some of its worst riots in years after youths scorched dozens of cars, attacked a police station and threw stones at rescue services in its poor immigrant suburbs for a third night running. Photograph: Fredrik ...
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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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