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Gender Differences In The Prescribing Of Analgesics In Spain
Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A study published in Gaceta Sanitaria (Spanish health scientific journal) affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between genders in the Autonomous Community in which the patient resides. In 1999, a researcher at the University of Harvard, Ishiro Kawachi, ...
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Tobacco Warning Images Proposed By The European Commission Should Be Reviewed As They Do Not Achieve The Desired Level Of Impact
The warning images Brussels proposes to include on tobacco packages in order to reduce consumption do not make the desired impact on smokers because they only find some of them really unpleasant. So, if the European Commission wants to improve the efficacy of its anti-smoking campaigns, it should produce a new set of images that make a stronger emotional impact. These are some of the ...
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The Torture of Children in a Russian Orphanage is Not Specific to Russia but a Result of the Secular System
On the 17th of May 2013, Russian TV, the UK Guardian and other media agencies reported on the publishing of a horrific video showing several boys under the age of ten, beaten with a belt and kicked by two teenage caretakers in a Russian orphanage. The appalling incident happened in the Mazanovsky orphanage in the region of ...
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ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup 2013 in Munich Germany 25-29 May
Sports News: The historical shooting venue of Munich is going to be crowded, in the following days. Over 700 athletes coming from 78 countries registered to take part in the 10 Olympic events of Rifle and Pistol shooting, to be conducted from the 25th to the 29th of May. An impressing overall number of 1205 starts were ...
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Tsunami warning in Russia’s Far East after 8.2 quake
MOSCOW--Russia on Friday issued a tsunami warning for the Sakhalin Island region in its Far East after a deep sea earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.2 by the USGS. ';Inhabitants need to leave dangerous regions and go to higher ground,'; the Sakhalin branch of the Russian emergencies ministry said in the warning. The USGS placed the epicenter of the quake in the Sea of Okhotsk of ...
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Two men arrested for mocking gruesome murder of soldier on Twitter
Rod Minchin - 24 May 2013 TWO men have been arrested for making alleged offensive comments on Twitter about the murder of a British ...
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Plea for calm in wave of Swedish rioting
A firefighter in Stockholm puts out a blaze in the northern suburb of Husby. Rioting in the Swedish capital was expected to continue into a fifth ...
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Charles and Camillas helicopter in emergency landing scare
Antony Stone - 24 May 2013 PRINCE Charles and his wife Camilla sat through a "hairy" mid-air drama when an in-flight emergency forced them to land minutes after ...
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I tried to keep bloodied attackers calm
As she waited for the police to arrive, Ingrid tried to reason with the two suspects. "Would you like to give me what you have in your hands?" she asked one, pleading with him to put down his weapons."We want to start a war," the other told her."I ...
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Pussy Riot girls hunger strike over parole denial
The decision followed a plea by Paul McCartney for authorities to consider releasing band members on parole.In its ruling yesterday, the court accepted a claim by prosecutors that Maria Alyokhina had systematically disobeyed prison authorities and failed to repent, Russian media reported.Ms Alyokhina, pictured, went on a hunger strike yesterday after being barred from the court hearing in Perm ...
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Radical suspect known to the police for years
Tom Whitehead London - 24 May 2013 ONE of the men who took part in the beheading of a British soldier was a known extremist with an ...
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Heathrow shut down as plane makes emergency landing with smoke pouring from engine
crew had been safely evacuated from the plane following the incident at about 9am today.There was speculation that the aircraft, which was flying from Heathrow to Oslo, had run into a flock of birds.One runway has already reopened but one remains closed.Emergency vehicles surrounded the plane and emergency chutes could be seen being deployed.London Fire Brigade said a crew from Heathrow fire ...
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Tributes to a loving dad hacked to death in street
24 May 2013 Tributes have been paid to Lee Rigby (25) of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - the 'loving father and husband' butchered on the streets of south-east London in a shocking daylight attack. It has emerged his killers had been ...
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All he ever wanted was to be in the army to live life and enjoy himself
Steven Swinford London - 24 May 2013 Drummer Lee Rigby was a loving father who only ever wanted to be a soldier and "live life and enjoy himself", his family ...
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Appeal for calm at Defence League rally
Tom Wilkinson - 24 May 2013 Police expect an English Defence League (EDL) march and a counter-demonstration to pass off peacefully despite admitting the shocking Woolwich murder "may have heightened community concerns" about the ...
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Chinese premier arrives in Switzerland for first trip to Europe
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L, front) is welcomed by Swiss Vice President and Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, upon his arrival in Zurich, Switzerland, May 23, 2013. Li Keqiang arrived here Thursday evening for an official visit to Switzerland. (Xinhua/Ju ...
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Germanys moment beckons at Wembley
Wembley Stadium after both got the better of Spanish opposition in the last four, beating Liga heavyweights Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively. Saturday's showpiece will be the fifth meeting this season between the sides, and the two former winners could hardly know each other better. It will also be the fourth time clubs from the same country have disputed the final, and all the ...
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Sweden riot enters 5th night
(33 mins ago) Swedish police say rioters in several suburban districts of Stockholm have burned two schools and 15 cars in the fifth straight night of unrest. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says 13 people, aged between 18 and 25, were detained in connection with the disturbances which included an unsuccessful attempt to damage a police station, AP reports. Lindgren said Friday that the ...
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European markets recover at open
(40 mins ago) European stock markets rebounded modestly at the start of trading on Friday following sharp losses suffered the previous day. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 0.23 percent to 6,712.15 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 gained 0.46 percent to 8,390.16 points and in Paris the CAC 40 climbed 0.36 percent to 3,981.27, AFP reports. European stock markets had slumped on ...
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We are expecting the Pound to strengthen against the Euro
In your opinion should we expect any major impact on the nation's currency in the short and in a long term? We are expecting the Pound to strengthen against the Euro, primarily due to the fact that the Eurozone's currency will weaken over the course of the next six months as we are expecting the crisis in the Euro bloc to re-escalate to a certain degree. We definitely expect the ...
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European factory sentiment dropped
Good Morning, - U.S. shares ended mildly lower after a volatile session, bucking the trend of overseas indexes, which fell sharply as weak data in Europe and China underlined the uncertain growth outlook. - Asian shares: Japan's Nikkei +0.89%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng -0.17% (07:00 GMT), Korea's Kospi +0.22%, Australia's ASX 200 -1.52% and China's Shanghai +0.57%. - ...
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Russia Syrias govt agrees to take part in US-Russia proposed conference in Geneva
MOSCOW - The Syrian government has agreed to a conference on the country's future proposed by Russia and the United States, Russia's foreign ministry said Friday Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in televised remarks that the Syrian government had "agreed in principle" to participate in the conference in Geneva which is expected within two weeks. ...
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Germany must spread cost of energy shift fairly IEA
International Energy Agency said Friday that Germany must shield its consumers from paying too much of the cost of its ambitious switch from nuclear power and fossil fuels toward renewable energy. The IEA also said Europe's biggest economy should make greater use of natural gas to smoothe the transition and reduce the use of coal to meet its carbon reduction targets to combat climate ...
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Syria agrees to attend peace talks Russia
RUSSIA says the Damascus regime has agreed "in principle" to attend an international peace conference on the Syria crisis that world powers hope will take place in Geneva in June. "We note with satisfaction that we have received an agreement in principle from Damascus to attend the international conference, in the interest of Syrians themselves finding a political path to resolve the ...
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The great European Cup teams Milan 1989-90 | Paolo Bandini
Milan team and Steaua Bucharest, played in Barcelona at the Camp Nou, was supposed to have been filmed by the Spanish state broadcasters TVE, whose live images would then be shared with international rights holders all across the globe. That plan had to be revised rather swiftly when TVE's technicians called a strike to coincide with the game.Engaged in a long-running contractual dispute, ...
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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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