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News Wrap Russia Says Syria Has Agreed to Peace Conference
In other news Friday, Russian officials announced that Syria has agreed "in principle" to attend an international peace conference on outlining a transition for new leadership. Also, in Kabul, Afghanistan, a guest house used by an international aid group was targeted by a suicide car bomber and five armed ...
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Interpol Rejects Russia’s Bid for Help in Browder Case
PARIS, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - The international police agency Interpol has deleted from its database all information in relation to UK-based investor William Browder, the organization said in a statement on Friday. Browder, who heads the Hermitage Capital equity fund, is a former boss of deceased lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and a prominent campaigner for justice in his case. Magnitsky’s 2009 ...
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IMF chief avoids French criminal charges
Justice officials in France have decided not to press criminal charges against International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde for alleged misuse of public money as French finance minister in 2008.Lagarde, 57, was allowed to leave the French Court of the Republic in Paris after her second long day of interrogation on Friday.Officials gave her the somewhat less serious designation of ...
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Syria regime to attend peace talks Russia
Syria's most powerful ally Russia on Friday said the Damascus regime had agreed to attend an international peace conference on the crisis that world powers hope will take place in Geneva in ...
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Francesco Molinari revels in cold European PGA Champs conditions
England Francesco Molinari flourished while five of his European Ryder Cup team-mates fell flat on their faces as the Italian grabbed the lead after the PGA Championship second round on Friday.Luke Donald, the 2011 and 2012 winner, Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell and Paul Lawrie all missed the halfway cut after struggling in cold, dank conditions at the European Tour's flagship ...
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IMF managing director Christine Lagarde evades fraud accusation
Ms Lagarde, 57, spent 24 hours over two days answering questions about her role in a EUR403m (344m) compensation award to the disgraced tycoon, Bernard Tapie, while she was French finance minister in 2008.The Republican Court of Justice, which examines alleged wrong-doing by ministers and ex-ministers, decided last night to make Ms Lagarde an "assisted witness" in the case, rather than ...
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Interpol rejects Russia bid to locate UK investor
PARIS (AP) — The international police agency Interpol has rejected a Russian push to locate and arrest a Britain-based investor who is a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin's regime.France-based Interpol said in a statement Friday it has "deleted all information in relation to William Browder."A special Interpol-related committee decided at a meeting Friday that ...
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British Village Protests Plan for Shale Gas Drilling
Balcombe, England ...
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NY to Host US-Russia ‘Battles On Ice’
WASHINGTON, May 24 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – Next month firefighters from New York, Boston and Russia will trade in their flame-resistant gear for shoulder pads and ice skates and team up against each other – and some of the best known names in hockey – for the third annual ‘Battles On Ice,’ a two-part annual competition in New York that organizers say ...
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Frigide Barjot The French anti-gay marriage leader under attack
John Lichfield has been The Independent's man in Paris since 1997, covering French news. Before that, he was the paper's Foreign Editor and he has also worked in Brussels and ...
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Golf-European Tour PGA Championship scores
May 24 (Infostrada Sports) - Scores from the European Tour PGA Championship at the par-72 course on Friday in Wentworth. The cut was set at 146. 138 Francesco Molinari (Italy) 70 68 139 George Coetzee ...
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Europes centre-left a programme without frontiers | Editorial
With Munich matched against Dortmund in the Champions League final at Wembley tonight, today is a day to remind us once again that Germans are uncommonly good at football. But they have always been pretty decent at centre-left politics too. No centre-left political party ...
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Frances luxury industry tourism hurt by Paris street crime
The streets of Paris are getting a reputation of being unsafe for tourists and is threatening the great brand names of French fashion. A leading association that counts Chanel and Dior as members urged the authorities to take action on the climate of insecurity which it said could keep cash-flush tourists away. Several recent incidents have tarnished the image of Paris - the world's most ...
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Man held following €1.7m drugs haul
A man has been arrested in Dublin after a major drugs haul worth EUR1.7m.Garda searched a house on The Strand, Donabate yesterday and recovered almost EUR1m worth of ecstasy and EUR700,000 in cannabis herb.A 36-year-old man is being questioned at Mountjoy Garda ...
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Hampton beats Brussels Open No. 2 seed
Upsets by Jamie Hampton and Kaia Kanepi marked Friday's play at the WTA's Brussels Open but scheduled semifinals were postponed. Weather has been an issue at the tournament in Belgium through the week. Play Friday was delayed but officials were able to get two quarterfinals, which were postponed by rain Thursday, completed. As a result the semifinals and finals will be contested ...
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Inter fire Stramaccioni hire Mazzarri
FC Internazionale Milano have appointed former SSC Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri after Andrea Stramaccioni paid for the club's failure to qualify for European ...
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Futsal Day at the UEFA Champions Festival
Futsal took centre stage on the second day of the UEFA Champions Festival in London with stars of the small-sided sport joining football aces on a day when England's prowess was ...
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Hummels hopes for happy ending for Dortmund
Passed fit after an ankle knock, Mats Hummels feels Borussia Dortmund will pen the last chapter of the "most fantastic story of all" if they beat FC Bayern Mnchen in Saturday's ...
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Dortmund and Bayern promise final masterclass
Borussia Dortmund's Jrgen Klopp describes FC Bayern Mnchen as "perfect opponents" in the UEFA Champions League final with Jupp Heynckes confident of success at ...
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Russia says Syrian government agrees to peace talks but skepticism persists on both sides
Demonstrators shout Islamic slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul May 24, 2013. (MURAD ...
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IMF chief named key witness in French payoff case
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde arrives for a second day of the court hearing at a special court house, in Paris, Friday, May 24, 2013. Lagarde faced questioning at a special Paris court Friday over her role in the 400 million euro ($520 million) pay-off to a controversial businessman when she was France's finance minister. (AP Photo/Thibault ...
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Study reveals mans rocky road to walking
The rugged landscape created by volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate shifts in east and south Africa millions of years ago may be what prompted our human ancestors to start walking on two legs.New research published in the journal Antiquity challenges the commonly-held theory that early hominins (members of the broad human family) were forced onto two feet on the ground because climate change ...
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Molinari leads European PGA Cship by one
Italy's Francesco Molinari leads the way after two rounds of the European PGA Championship at Wentworth but several of his European Ryder Cup team mates missed the cut.Molinari was six under par after a second-round 68, making four birdies in his last eight holes by lunchtime.A cluster of players finished a shot back from Molinari including South Africa's George Coetzee, Marc Warren of ...
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European Commission Calls for Direct Line for Missing Children
Brussels, May 24 (Prensa Latina) The European Commission (EC) called today its country members to redouble efforts to spread the telephone number 116000, a common direct line to denounce the disappearance of children. A day before the International Missing Children's Day, EC's vice president and Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, said that this line can help to save lives, but it ...
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Turkey - Charges against Turkish intellectuals must be dropped group says
As the next hearing of the trial of Rag?p and Deniz Zarakolu opens on 27 May, the International Publishers Association (IPA) continues to urge the Turkish authorities to drop all charges against both publishers and release Deniz Zarakolu, who has been detained for close to 600 days without a verdict, immediately.Publishers Rag?p and Deniz Zarakolu were among more than 40 people arrested in ...
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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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