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Suspect killed in Orlando has confessed to 2011 triple murders says FBI
NEW YORK A Chechen acquaintance of dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has confessed to slashing the throats of three people in a 2011 gruesome triple murder, federal law enforcement officials have said. Ibragim Todashev, who made the confession, was killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law ...
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On US request Russian arms dealer held in Lithuania
Lithuanian security services have arrested a Russian national at the request of the US Justice Department, which suspects him of smuggling export-restricted military equipment. Dmitry Ustinov, 46, was detained over a month ago at Vilnius airport in Lithuania, after he arrived from the US to allegedly negotiate a sales deal for night vision equipment used by the US military, the Delfi news ...
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New oral diarrhea vaccine shows promising results in phase I-study
A novel oral, inactivated Escherichia coli diarrhea vaccine has been developed in Sweden and a clinical phase I-study of this vaccine has now been successfully completed. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria are the primary cause of diarrhea in children living in low and middle income countries result in 400 million diarrheal episodes and approximately 300 000 deaths among children ...
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Home sales fall in Spain
The 54,512 home sales recorded in Spain in this year's first quarter represent a decline of 21.5 percent from the same period in 2012, the development ministry said. Foreigners were the buyers in 17 percent of the transactions. The decline in the first quarter reflects the impact in the sector of the end of the tax deduction for buying a primary residence and the increase in the levy on new ...
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European leaders hold summit on tax evasion
The heads of state and government of the European Union held a summit Wednesday in an effort to make more progress in fighting tax evasion and tax fraud. EU leaders are targeting tax crimes both within the borders of their countries and in foreign tax havens despite the reluctance of Austria and Luxembourg. The leaders of the EU's 27 member states are expected to give the go ahead to the ...
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Italy has lowest graduate share in Europe
Italy has the lowest graduation rates in Europe with just one-fifth of people aged 30-34 holding a university degree, according to a study. A total of 31 percent of Italian families cannot afford to pay for their children's university studies, and must take out loans or have their offspring seek jobs to help fund tuition and living costs, said the report by charity Save the Children. It said ...
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US tourist stabbed in Italy loses kidney
A 68-year-old American tourist underwent emergency surgery to remove a kidney after he was stabbed in Italy's Florence city. The tourist, who was not named, was attacked near the famous Duomo cathedral. Doctors at the Santa Maria Nuova hospital said the man suffered knife wounds to a kidney and a lung but was no longer critical, and was conscious and breathing unaided. Police arrested a ...
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Activists protest against bullfighting in Spain
Animal rights activists pretending to be bulls stuck through with banderillas lie on the ground covered with mock blood during a protest against bullfighting in Barcelona May 23, 2013. The activists collected signatures to present to the government in protest against a draft law currently in parliament that would protect bullfighting as part of Spain's heritage and national interest. ...
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Peng Shuai eases into Brussels semis
The 6-2, 6-3 win means Peng is now through to the seventh Premier-level semifinal of her career, but this has been a tough stage for her, as she has gone 1-5 in her previous six - but on the flip side, the only win did come at this very tournament in 2011, when she made it to the final before falling to Caroline ...
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Russia detains 74 Chinese workers
Russian law enforcement authorities have detained 74 Chinese labor workers who allegedly have no identity documents in the Volgograd region, said the Interior Ministry of Russia ...
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We are the champions but we Germans need Europe as much as Europe needs us
Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund players celebrate on the last occasions they won the Uefa Champions League in 2001 and 1997 respectively. Photographs: ...
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Robben hails dominant Germany
Bayern Munich star Arjen Robben has lauded the quality of German football as his team prepares for the UEFA Champions League final.Bayern will face Bundesliga rivals Borussia Dortmund on Saturday in European football's biggest club match, the first time two German sides have made the final of the tournament.Robben said the all-German Champions League final was a reflection of how far the ...
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Sevan Nisanyan Turkish-Armenian blogger jailed for blasphemy
Turkish-Armenian blogger Sevan Nisanyan was sentenced on Wednesday to a year in jail for blasphemy over a blog supporting a controversial anti-Islam ...
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Several killed in shootout in Russias Dagestan
reportedly said a Russian commander also "got a lethal wound." "The two suspects were killed while resisting police," an unnamed Russian inspector told Russia's ...
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France Lawmakers approve plan to offer more courses in English in French universities
most widely spoken languages in the world, is in danger. That's what right-wing politicians and defenders of the language of love would have you believe after French lawmakers on ...
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Facebook delays Home in Europe wants a stronger First impression
IDG News Service - Users in the U.K. and France will have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on the HTC First. The first smartphone to come preinstalled with Facebook Home has been delayed in those countries while Facebook updates the software to address some negative user feedback. Facebook is wise to delay the rollout, one analyst said, rather than release the product to other markets ...
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Li kicks off first Europe trip
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who is on the first stop of his debut visit to Europe since taking office in March, flew in to Zurich late on ...
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Russia Admits Crimea Consul’s Words Were ‘Incorrect’
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has admitted that recent statements by Vladimir Andreyev, the Russian consul general in Simferopol, Ukraine’s Crimea, about Crimean Tatars were inappropriate. Moscow "understands [Ukraine’s] reaction to certain… incorrect wordings used by the Russian representative without proper account for the sensitive issue ...
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Proposal to ban use of refillable olive oil vessels in restaurants slips from European Commission agenda
EU agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos yesterday confirmed the European Commission was withdrawing the proposal to regulate how olive oil is served and presented in restaurants, recognising that it had not garnered "widespread ...
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Europe Australia and the slow death of carbon trading
Europe's carbon pricing woes cast further doubt on the credibility of Australia's scheme and on Treasury's revenue forecasts. Climate change law research Fergus Green writes ...
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Heavy Metal Rocks in Europes Cruise Market
Miland Petrozza, the front man of German thrash metal band Kreator, is used to his fans wading through mud and sleeping in tents. Rarely do they arrive at his concerts after an afternoon of shuffleboard. Yet when he shrieked the lyrics "let there be darkness, let there be blood tonight" across the decks of luxury ...
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German Social Democrats Celebrate Anniversary
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Britain Knew of 2 Suspects In Killing of Soldier
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World Briefing | Europe Ukraine Gay Pride Rally Banned
A Ukrainian court on Thursday banned what would have been ...
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French Upset Over More English Proposal
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US nuclear missles in Europe remain poised for a war that will never come
The United States and Russia recently signed a new landmark nuclear non-proliferation treaty called START in March and the US in early May followed up its non-proliferation goals by making the unprecedented step of publicly declaring how many nuclear weapons it had – just over 5,113 in total, though many of them are in storage and would take time to be deployed.
That is a vast reduction compared to the total arsenal the country possessed at the height of the Cold War in 1967, the number at that time was 31,225, according to reports by European news media. Read more
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