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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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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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Council of Europe Concerned About Russias Human-Rights Record
MOSCOW Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary general of the Council of Europe, has told President Vladimir Putin that the human rights body is concerned about Russia's law requiring non-governmental organizations to register as foreign agents. Jagland said Europe will watch how the Kremlin implements the law that went in effect last November, a measure requiring non-governmental organizations ...
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U.S. dollar slips against euro after Fed official remarks
Beijing, May 22 (Xinhua-ANI): The U.S. dollar advanced against most major currencies on Tuesday, but weakened against the euro after a U.S. Federal Reserve official indicated that the central bank may not taper its bond-purchasing program soon. St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said at an event in Frankfurt that the Fed should continue with the quantitative easing to boost ...
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Maltese Cup final rematch favours Hibernians
Two goals from Tarabai and one from fellow Brazilian Jackson Lima secured a tenth Maltese Cup for Hibernians FC, as they beat Qormi FC 3-1 in the final for the second season in a ...
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Apollon win cup final derby in Cyprus
Extra-time goals from Horacio Cardozo and Romeo Surdu propelled Apollon Limassol FC towards a 2-1 win against neighbours AEL Limassol FC in Wednesday's Cypriot Cup ...
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Irish online market spend worth €4.1 billion
Retail Ireland - part of employers group IBEC - says retailers are now focusing more on their online operations. In its online retailing survey, Retail Ireland says the Irish online market spend is €4.1 billion and this is predicted to grow to €21 billion by 2017. But it also says there are barriers to this expansion like delivery costs, set-up costs, poor broadband speeds and a lack ...
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Govt to announce €7m science research investment
Almost €7 million in funding for 62 early stage scientific research projects is to be announced by the Government. The funding is being targeted at projects which may have a commercial benefit with further development. The investment is being made as part of Science Foundation Ireland's Technology Innovation Development Award programme. It is also being carried out in collaboration ...
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Level of relations between Azerbaijan and Russia high - foreign minister
In an exclusive interview with columnist of "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" Victoria Panfilova, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister spoke about the state of Russian-Azerbaijani relations, issues of the Karabakh conflict, and also answered a number of questions. "We, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, had a constructive exchange of views. If there is a need for our intervention ...
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Mum talked down terrorists who told her We want to start a war in London
Claire Duffin - 23 May 2013 A cub scout leader confronted terrorists just seconds after they had beheaded a soldier asking them to hand over their weapons and warning them: "It is only you versus many people, you are going to ...
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Panathinaikos Face Appeal Over Licence to Play in Greece
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Mexico Germany vow to promote tourism
Mexico and Germany pledged on Wednesday to promote bilateral tourism, air connectivity and the flow of visitors, Mexico's Ministry of Tourism said in a ...
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European Stock-Index Futures Drop on China Manufacturing
European stock futures declined as data showed Chinese manufacturing is shrinking and as investors awaited data that a contraction in euro-area industry is continuing. U.S. index futures and Asian shares also dropped. Futures on the Euro Stoxx 50 Index, a benchmark for the euro area, lost 1.6 percent to 2,781 at 7:13 a.m. in London. Futures on the U.K.'s FTSE 100 Index slid 1.4 ...
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European stock futures signal sharply lower open
LONDON | Thu May 23, 2013 2:02am EDT LONDON May 23 (Reuters) - European stock futures pointed to a sharply weaker start on Thursday after a poor factory activity survey from China and on concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve could decide to cut its bond purchases in the next few meetings. At 0601 GMT, futures for Euro STOXX 50, UK's FTSE 100, Germany's DAX and France's CAC were ...
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Russias VTB seeks to sell Rosbank stake paper
MOSCOW | Thu May 23, 2013 2:00am EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's second largest bank VTB (VTBR.MM) wants to sell its stake in Societe Generale's (SOGN.PA) Russian unit Rosbank and may part with it by the end of the year, the Kommersant daily on Thursday cited an executive as saying. State-controlled VTB owns a 10 percent stake in Rosbank, and stated its wish to exit after ...
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Comment Woolwich and the politics of violent images
warn of "ugly racism and Islamophobia". At this time, when so little is known, it’s worth noting that images of the crime are not neutral – they will play an active part in deciding what the Woolwich murder means – and what is done about it. The images we are all consuming with disgust are doing more than just showing us something horrible. There’s a ...
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UN asks Russia for more peacekeepers
New York, May 23 : Russia has been asked to increase the level of staff it commits to UN peacekeeping missions around the world, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev ...
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Cub-scout leader talked down killer
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, a cub scout leader, talked with the killers and kept her nerve as one of them told her: "We want to start a war in London tonight."Mrs Loyau-Kennett (48), from Cornwall in England, was one of the first people on the scene after the two killers butchered a soldier in Woolwich yesterday.She was photographed by onlookers confronting one of the attackers, who was ...
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The world’s wealthy ‘could be hiding €707 billion in Ireland’
THE WORLD'S WEALTHIEST people could have over EUR700 billion hidden from international tax authorities - keeping it shielded in Irish financial institutions. That's according to Oxfam Ireland, which has warned that the new focus on corporate tax avoidance should not distract from the methods used by wealthy individuals to avoid income tax payments. The charity says wealthy ...
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Europe Factors to Watch-Shares seen slipping from 5-yr highs
LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - European shares were set to fall sharply on Thursday, with a poor factory activity survey from China and concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve could decide to cut its bond purchases in the next few meetings hurting sentiment. HSBC's preliminary survey of purchasing managers showed China's factory activity shrank for the first time in seven months in May, raising ...
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The European Commission French President Hollande accelerate austerity
In recent days, French President Franois Hollande has been under pressure from the European Union (EU) and also from his own Socialist Party (PS) to accelerate austerity measures, amid a slowdown of the French and world economy. On Wednesday May 15, Franois Hollande went to Brussels to meet the President of the European Commission, Jos Manuel Barroso, and twenty EU commissioners. The EU ...
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Barbaric scenes on London street as soldier beheaded in terrorist attack
23 May 2013 Shoppers on a busy London street looked on in horror as two men brandishing meat cleavers hacked an off-duty soldier "like a piece of meat" in broad ...
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Atrocity plays out on social media
23 May 2013 EMERGENCY services were called to the scene of the Woolwich attack at 2.20pm, and within 30 minutes the incident was setting social media ...
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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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