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Boeing finalized largest ever 156 billion Dollar order from European airline
Ryanair today finalized a firm order for 175 Next-Generation 737-800 airplanes valued at $15.6 billion at list prices. The order, originally announced as a commitment in March, is B v At a signing ceremony today at the 2013 Paris Air Show, Michael O'Leary, president and CEO of Ryanair, joined Ray Conner, Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO, to finalize the historic deal. ...
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Olazabal Wins Spains Most Prestigious Sports Award
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STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-Micro Focus hits record high on earnings beat
* FY underlying pretax profit 26.4 mln euros, down 66 pct* Dividend maintained at 3.5 cents* Says confident of improved earnings in medium termBy James DaveyLONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Darty, Europe's No. ...
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Floods kill six in southern Spain
At least six people, including a young girl and an elderly woman, died Friday as floods in southern Spain overturned cars and forced hundreds to flee their homes, officials said. At least 600 people had to be evacuated from their homes in the Andalusia region, with some forced to take refuge on their roofs as torrential rains caused rivers to break their banks, flooding roads and rail routes. ...
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Germanys ex Finance Minister - Merkels challenger
Germany's Social Democrats have chosen their candidate to run against Chancellor Angela Merkel in the 2013 general elections. This will be former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrck. His candidature will be officially pronounced at the party's session on October 1. Social Democrats pledge social equality and limiting the influence of financial markets on people's lives. ...
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Russia bans GM corn from U.S. for cancer fears
By Yu Runze, Sina English Russia is halting all shipments of American corn due to a study that revealed a higher risk in breast cancer. The country has suspended the import and use of American genetically modified (GM) corn after a study suggested a link to breast cancer and organ damage. The European Food Safety Authority has followed up the action with its own review into the research. Other ...
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Germany charges two alleged Russian spies
German prosecutors say they have filed espionage charges against two alleged Russian agents whom they accuse of spying for information on European Union and NATO strategy. The federal prosecutors' office alleged Thursday the pair, who were arrested last October, worked in Germany for Russia's foreign intelligence service, or SVR, for more than 20 years. Prosecutors said they entered ...
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Greece’s ruling coalition agrees on austerity
Sina English The leaders of Greece's ruling coalition have agreed on austerity measures, the country's Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras told reporters on Thursday. According to him, the agreement will help save more than 11.5 billion euros in the next couple of years. Athens needs austerity measures in order to get a bailout from the so-called Troika of International Lenders, ...
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Spains Catalonia to hold consultation for independence
Spain's regional leader of Catalonia said Wednesday that a self-determination consultation will go ahead during the mandate of the next parliament, even if the central government does not authorize it. "If the consultation can be done through a referendum authorized by the Spanish government, better. If the government does not authorize any kind of referendum or consultation, it still ...
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Nationwide general strike to paralyze Greece ahead of fresh austerity package
Greek unions' mobilization may bring the country to a standstill on Wednesday as they called for a general strike in protest of new austerity package promoted by the government. Organized by two major worker unions in private and public sectors, GSEE and ADEDY, thousands of protesters, including tax and customs officers, employees at municipalities, state-owned bank workers, along with ...
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Earthquakes measuring 5.6 and 4.8 Richter shake parts of Greece no injuries
Two earthquakes measuring 5.6 and 4.8 on the Richter scale occurred respectively on Saturday in parts of Greece, without causing injuries or extensive material damage, according to local media reports. The quakes, one happened near the islands of Crete and Casos in the southern Aegean Sea and while the other took place in the city of Corinth near Athens. The tremor that hit Corinth, about 88 ...
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Russia bans liquor imports from Czech
MOSCOW, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Russia banned imports of hard alcohol from the Czech Republic following lethal poisoning cases in that country, Gennady Onishchenko, Russia's Directorate for Consumer Rights and Health Protection, said on Friday. "The Federal Customs Services are given an order not to let these products (into the country) until the situation is fully stabilized," ...
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Russia to keep Kyrgyzstan military base
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Sept. 20 to a deal with Kyrgyzstan that will allow Russia to keep a military base in the country until 2032 as Moscow and Washington jostle for influence in the region. The agreement -- essentially a set of memorandums of intent ahead of formal treaties -- also foresees Russia wiping out nearly $500 million (380 million euros) in debt owed by ...
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Eight militants killed in Russias North Caucasus
MOSCOW, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Eight gunmen were killed in a police ambush in Russia's North Caucasus region, the local Interior Ministry said Thursday. During an early morning counter-terrorist operation in the Kabardino-Balkaria republic, eight militants trapped in a private house were killed in the capital city of Nalchik, local police said. Two of the killed were women. Four of the ...
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Russia expects visit of Japanese PM this year
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda may visit Russia by the end of this year, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday. "We are going to work closely with the Japanese side to fill that visit with substance, so it would bring additional fruits to our cooperation," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich. Lukashevich added that both Moscow and Tokyo would work on ...
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France bans protest over anti-Islam movie
France on Thursday banned a demonstration to protest against the publication of the U.S. movie mocking the Prophet Mohammed that had triggered outrage across the Muslim world, local media reported. According to news channel BFMTV, Paris police banned a planned protest outside Paris Mosque on Saturday as a precautionary measure after calls circulated on social networks to protest over the ...
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Putin backs claim USAID tried to meddle in politics in Russia
President Vladimir Putin has backed Foreign Ministry assertions the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was trying to meddle in politics in Russia. Putin "shared a similar opinion" with the ministry on the role USAID had played in Russia, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Vedomosti newspaper Thursday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich ...
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France alert to protests over satirical cartoons
France kept alert on possible anti-France protests, closing its diplomatic missions and schools in some Islamic countries Wednesday after a French weekly published cartoons mocking the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. The French Foreign Ministry said in a statement that France had decided to temporarily close its embassies, consulates, cultural centers and schools in more than 20 Islamic countries as ...
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France to close diplomatic sites in 20 Muslim countries on Friday
France will close diplomatic sites in 20 Muslim countries over concern that a French satirical magazine's publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad may provoke a violent backlash. France will close embassies, consulates, cultural centers and French schools on Friday, the day of prayer for Muslims, the foreign ministry said in an emailed statement. "We have given ...
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Leader of Communist Party of Spain dies in Madrid
Santiago Carrillo, a historical leader of the Communist Party of Spain, died at the age of 97 in Madrid on Tuesday, local media reported. Carrillo, died at his home in Madrid while he was having a nap. Last week the state of his health deteriorated. His mortal remains were taken to the headquarters of the Spanish trade union Comisiones Obreras (Workers Commissions) in Madrid. Next Thursday ...
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Belgium PM becomes organ donor
Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo has announced on the social network Facebook that he is ready to donate his organs after his death. Starting on Tuesday the Belgian edition of Facebook has a new feature: users can now state on their profiles that they intend to become organ donors after death. They are then asked to fill out a form on the website of the Federal Ministry of Health. ...
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Russia EU call for non-political humanitarian aid to Syria
MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Russia and the European Union (EU) call for neutral and non-political humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. During a meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov and visiting European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva, the two sides ...
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230 detained in Belgium
In Belgium on Sunday police detained 230 people who were protesting against the film "The Innocence of Muslims". One officer was injured but his life is not in danger. The demonstration took place in the city of Antwerp which has a large population of people from the Middle East. The protest was not coordinated with the authorities so the police arrested all of the participants who ...
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Most Greeks reject austerity attached to bailout aid but support euro survey
ATHENS, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- An overwhelming majority of seven out of ten Greeks reject harsh austerity attached to bailout agreements with international lenders which keep debt-ridden Greece afloat since 2010, according to a new opinion poll released in Athens on Tuesday. However, the survey conducted by Public Issue for the local Kathimerini newspaper and SKAI television and radio channels, ...
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Spains railway workers to strike
Spain's railway workers will hold a 24-hour strike today which will lead to cancellation of 302 long-distance and commuter rains, according to local media reports. Strikers are protesting against the Spanish government's decision to privatize the rail transport network and reduce wages. In solidarity workers in the country's subway (underground) system have also decided to ...
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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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