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Kurdish rebel commander warns Turkish state sabotaging peace
Murat Karayilan, acting military commander of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Qandil mountains near the Iraq-Turkish border in Sulaimaniya, 330 km (205 miles) northeast of Baghdad March 24, ...
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Turkish government protesters seek to draw sting from unrest
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Wednesday he had no objection to silent anti-government protests inspired by a symbolic "Standing Man" vigil, comments that could help draw the sting out of three weeks of often violent ...
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US internet snooping ends Germanys love for Obama
25/02/2013 17:04 CET Barack Obama has returned to Berlin for the first time as president of the United States, but the euphoria that greeted him as a presidential candidate in 2008 has long gone. The recent revelations about the US National Security Agency’s global electronic surveillance, where German citizens were monitored has caused fury across the country. Chancellor Merkel ...
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Russia signals nuclear arms cuts will not come easy
Russia (Reuters) - Russia voiced concern on Wednesday about U.S. missile defenses and high-precision conventional weapons, signaling that nuclear arms cuts proposed by ...
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Euro zone doomed to slow growth without painful reforms
Kerala is not a success of socialism. It is a success of globalisation, private provision of education and health, and rapid economic growth - along with the associated high inequality. And high ...
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Merkel Challenges Obama on Surveillance
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Russia will spend $437.4 million closing down Baikal paper mill
A Russian paper mill blamed by environmentalists for damaging the world's deepest freshwater lake will finally be shut down, Russia's prime minister ...
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Drug companies in Europe fined for pay-to-delay scheme
Antitrust regulators in Europe said they had fined several drug companies $195 million for conspiring to delay bringing a generic drug to market. The New York Times reported Wednesday the companies fined included Danish drugmaker Lundbeck and German pharmaceutical firm Merck. The European Commission's antitrust division said the companies formed an agreement in 2002 to delay producing a ...
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Africa Europe set out cooperation priorities
The Action Plan 2011-2013 was adopted at the recent Africa-EU Summit held in Tripoli, Libya. It replaces the First Action Plan 2008-2010 that was approved at the last summit three years ago. Both plans of action are based on eight partnerships defined as "strategic". These focus on energy, climate change, peace and security, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), trade and ...
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Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions
BERLIN (AP) -- Issuing an appeal for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our ...
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REFILE-UPDATE 1-IMF says Spain making progress warns on jobs and banks
Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:15am EDT * Fund says Spain has done well on reforms, economic imbalances easing * Needs to do more on job creation; banks still fragile * Says Europe could help by pressing ahead with banking union By Julien Toyer MADRID, June 19 (Reuters) - Spain has made strong progress in fixing its economy but needs to do more to put millions back to work and shield its fragile banks from ...
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New Issue-Bacardi prices 650 mln euro 2023 bond
June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:13am EDT June 19 (Reuters) -Following are terms and conditions of a bond priced on Wednesday. Borrower Bacardi Ltd Guarantor Bacardi-Martini B.V., Bacardi ...
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In Germany Obama Defends US Surveillance Programs
U.S. President Barack Obama listens as German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media during a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, June 19, ...
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South Africa to Host Worlds Biggest Telescope
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa is preparing to host the biggest radio telescope in the world. Along with Australia, the country has been chosen to host ...
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Lamy European leaders must lead from the front
The word "crisis" is not new in the European vocabulary. In fact, history has taught us that European integration has weathered many crises. Some of you in this room will remember De Gaulle and his "empty chair" policy in 1965 and 1966. With the recent death of Margaret Thatcher, we have been reminded of her fierce drive to reduce the UK’s contribution to the European ...
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In Germany Obama to Call For Fewer Nukes
U.S. President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after a news conference at the German Chancellery on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in Berlin. Obama will speak at the Brandenburg Gate later in the ...
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Europe faces uphill battle over youth unemployment
By Anders MelinBRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will hold a summit later this month to tackle the growing scourge of youth unemployment. But there's a problem: the 6 billion euros they want to use to get to grips with the issue aren't yet available.Leaders agreed in February that they would set aside the money from the EU's next long-term budget, which runs from ...
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German bank association backs European deposit scheme
Reuters © Juergen Fitschen, Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank AG speaks during an extraordinary shareholders meeting in Frankfurt April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Ralph ...
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Pope invites teen with Down Syndrome up to car for a spin
Pope Francis smiles as he talks with a sick youth after the weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, June 19, 2013. ...
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Russian Strategic Missiles to Reorientate during Flight
Moscow, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) A digital automatic system introduced by the Strategic Missile Troops (TIME) will facilitate in 2020 that new Russian missiles of this type reorientate their trajectory during flight and evade the U.S. anti-missile defense. Different media underline today the support of the Ministry of Defense to the Vozzvanie project, which consists on an automatic control device ...
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Russia to take measures to preserve global strategic deterrence system
ST. PETERSBURG, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will take measures to preserve the global strategic deterrence system in balance, President Vladimir Putin said. "We cannot allow the strategic deterrence system to be upset or the effectiveness of our nuclear forces to be decreased," he said at a meeting on the aerospace defence system, held on Wednesday, June 19. "The creation of ...
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ONF and United Russia nominate common candidate for regional governor post
VIDNOYE, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The All Russia People's Front (ONF) and the United Russia party have nominated Acting governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov a candidate for the post of the Governor of the Moscow ...
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European Commission gets mandate to negotiate trade agreement with US
Does ACTA live on in the EC IPRED Directive? The European Commission has run a public consultation on the enforcement of IPRED - the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive. The consultation closed on the day before April Fool's Day - but not everybody is ...
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Alberto Contador handed solid support in bid for third Tour de France
Alberto Contador will be supported by Michael Rogers, Roman Kreuziger and Nicolas Roche in his Tour de France bid. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty ...
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Former Italy Midfielder Gattuso Named Palermo Manager
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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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