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North Korea to invest $1 mln in Russia’s Primorsky territory agriculture
VLADIVOSTOK, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea plans investing $ 1 mln in the agricultural sector of Russia’s Far-Eastern Primorsky /Maritime/ territory, and in particular in the processing of coy and corn. Also, the North Korean side is interested in the setting up of joint cattle farms, North Korea’s Consul General in Vladivostok Rim Chun Il said ...
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Russia to make proportionate response to US sanctions over human trafficking
MOSCOW, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will make a proportionate response to the United States, if Washington takes sanctions against Moscow over the human trafficking situation, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s commissioner for human rights, democracy and the rule of law Konstantin Dolgov said in the wake of the Department of State’s report on the human trafficking situation around the ...
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Russia hopes Friends of Syria Group meeting to be devoted to preparing Geneva-2 conference
ST PETERSBURG, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russia hopes that the Friends of Syria Group meeting in Doha on June 22 will be devoted to preparing the Geneva-2 conference and not to winding up of the opposition, Russian presidential special envoy for Africa Mikhail Margelov told Itar-Tass. "If the meeting helps prepare the Geneva-2 conference, I believe that it has the right to being held," ...
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Russia set to develop air defence systems
MOSCOW, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Obukhovsky plant in St. Petersburg, where he chaired a government meeting dedicated to issues of the implementation of the state defence order. He inspected the most advanced air defence systems, such as the Vityaz system that is to replace the obsolete S-300 air defence system. The Almaz-Atney concern ...
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Retirees as happy and healthy as 30 year olds
Figures released by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of David Cameron's plan to measure the country's "happiness", show that people in their late-60s feel like they are back in their prime, with similar levels of satisfaction with their own health to those in people 30 years younger. At the same time, the incidence of anxiety and depression drops by almost ...
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Eurozone downturn eases as output falls at slowest rate for 15 months
Eurozone downturn in manufacturing and services eased in June as output fell at slowest rate for 15 months. German output rose for second straight ...
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Senior Scientific Officer - Science Europe
www.scienceeurope.org ) is an association of 51 European research funding organisations (RFO) and research performing organisations (RPO) in 26 countries, founded in October 2011 and based in Brussels. It promotes the collective interests of the RFOs and RPOs of Europe and supports its member organisations in their efforts to foster European research. It aims to strengthen the European Research ...
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Germanys DEG eyes $188m MidEast investments
DEG, a unit of German state development bank KfW, plans to invest up to 140 million euros ($188m) in Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) private firms next year despite concerns over the region's short-term political ...
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Russia hosts FIFA World Cup 2018
Every one of Russia's stadiums being built for the 2018 World Cup is having trouble meeting the standards set by world football's governing body FIFA, the official in charge of compliance said on ...
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Netanyahu to EU foreign affairs chief If Hezbollah isnt a terror group what is
Prime Minister Netanyahu meets Catherine Ashton in Jerusalem, a day after the European Union failed to reach a consensus on including Hezbollah on its list of terrorist ...
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Kennet Partners and Fidelity Growth Partners Europe Acquire Rivo Software
Rivo Software , a fast-growing software company based in Warwick, UK. Rivo Software is a global provider of environmental, health and safety, quality and loss prevention management software. Founded eight years ago, the company helps businesses manage compliance and business risk through its cloud-based software. It gives senior executives clear, accurate and timely information to ...
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Europe shares extend losses down more than 2 percent
LONDON (Reuters) - European shares extended losses on Thursday, with a key index down more than 2 percent and closing in on two month lows. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index fell as much as 2.1 percent to an intraday low of 1,155.94 points - close to a low of 1,154.30 points reached in late April. The euro zone's blue-chip Euro STOXX 50 index also fell 2.4 percent to 2,619.43 ...
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Europe Markets Europe stocks sink after Fed meeting
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets moved sharply lower on Thursday, after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said late the prior day the central bank may scale back its bond purchases this year, depending on the economic ...
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Euro-zone manufacturing PMI rises to 15-month high
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The euro-zone downturn eased in June, with the manufacturing sector contracting at the slowest pace in 16 months, data from Markit showed on Thursday. The preliminary manufacturing purchasing managers' index for the euro zone rose to 48.7 from 48.3 in May, beating expectations of a 48.4 reading. A reading below 50 signals contraction. The composite output PMI reading ...
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European stocks dive at open on Fed news
LONDON (AFP) - European stock markets fell sharply in opening deals on Thursday, in line with a global retreat after the US Federal Reserve signalled it would wind down its massive quantitative easing stimulus programme later this year.In initial trading, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index sank 122.35 points or 1.93 percent to 6,226.47 points at 9:04 am, while Frankfurt's DAX 30 dived ...
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Regulators order lenders to raise more capital
LONDON (AP) -- British regulators are ordering its biggest banks to bolster their balance sheets by 27. 1 billion pounds ($42.1 billion) to prevent a repeat of the 2008 banking ...
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Internal factors have deep roots. The main reason is the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War and the Turkish Republic established by the father of the Turks Kemal Ataturk. There is a huge mass of people more than half of
Is this a chain reaction or mass epidemic? Either way, the fact remains - the political upheavals in the Muslim world that began in Tunisia swept across North Africa and Syria, and now a wave of instability has reached Turkey. A member of the Presidium of the Academy of Geopolitical Issues Araik Stepanyan analyzed this complex, ambiguous situation in the ...
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Euro zone business slump eases but second-quarter contraction likely - PMI
Reuters © A worker welds a metal furnace in a factory in Gravellona Lomellina, 45km (27 miles) southwest of Milan, June 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stefano ...
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Prandelli relieved as Italy edge Japan thriller
Italy 4-3 JapanCesare Prandelli admitted his side were made to suffer as they came from two down to claim a win that seals a FIFA Confederations Cup semi-final ...
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Switzerlands Dickenmann backs youth finals
Lara Dickenmann played for Switzerland at two UEFA European Women's U19 Championships and ahead of the U17 finals in Nyon spoke to UEFA.com about the importance of youth ...
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Sun shining again for Germanys Mittag
Two years after the "most difficult moment" of her career- being left out of Germany's FIFA Women's World Cup squad - Anja Mittag is back in favour and discusses her return with ...
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Tahiti coach targets a goal against Spain
Tahiti coach Eddy Etaeta said it would be "quite impossible" for his team to beat world champions Spain tonight but even if Spain scored 20 goals, he would be happy if Tahiti grabbed one. Etaeta said: "We must be highly realistic and it is impossible for us to beat Spain, quite impossible. They are the European and the world champions and the favourites to win this Confederations ...
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Italy win thriller with Japan
Italy booked their semi-final place as they snatched a barely-deserved 4-3 victory from a pulsating game in Recife to dump Japan out of the Confederations Cup. Italy scored three times in 11 minutes either side of half-time, through Daniele De Rossi, Atsuto Uchida's own goal and Mario Balotelli's penalty after Japan had established a 2-0 lead courtesy of Keisuke Honda's spot-kick ...
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France make wholesale changes
France have made eight changes to their starting XV that will face the All Blacks in New Plymouth on Saturday, with Remi ...
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Mining and luxury stocks slide as European shares fall
Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:04am EDT * FTSEurofirst 300 falls 1.4 pct, Euro STOXX 50 down 1.7 pct * New signs of China slowdown hits mining stocks * Fall in Swiss exports hits Swatch and Richemont By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) - European shares fell on Thursday as confirmation that the U.S. Federal Reserve would wind down economic stimulus measures, together with weak Chinese data, hit ...
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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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