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Dole Europe Extends Dole Earth to Pineapples
HAMBURG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Further to the launch of its Dole Earth online platform on bananas a year ago, Dole Europe announces the extension of the website to pineapples. All Dole pineapples to Europe will carry on a newly designed hang tag the 5 digit farm code which will allow consumers to trace their fruit back to the farm where it was produced. The visitors will then be ...
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Russia asks Interpol to monitor movements of
Russia has applied to Interpol to monitor the travel and whereabouts of a British hedge fund boss wanted by Moscow who is at the heart of a diplomatic stand-off over the alleged killing of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei ...
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Former US Justice official who refused to spy for Russians ejected from Russia
A former senior Justice Department official at the American Embassy in Moscow was not allowed to return to Russia this month, and people familiar with the case say it could be because he refused to spy for the Russians. Thomas Firestone -- an attorney living in Moscow -- was working for an American law firm, and had extensive contacts in the Russian government, according to a report in The New ...
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Israel contests France TV over Palestinian boys death
29/03/2013 19:15 CET Israel says there is new evidence that a French television report whose harrowing images helped inspire the second Palestinian uprising was unfounded. The report in 2000 showed a father and son in Gaza caught up in Israeli-Palestinian crossfire. The 12-year-old was later pronounced dead – hit, said France 2, by Israeli troops. Nearly 13 years later, the Israeli ...
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EU to look in detail at pros and cons of fracking The European Union is to look more closely at hydraulic fracturing - or fracking - and the environmental concerns surrounding the practice, according to the EU's energy commissioner. ...
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Italys top politicians unite against homophobia
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano called for a "firm and constant commitment" to battling prejudice against homosexuals, as Italy observed "Anti-Homopobia Day" on May 17. His statement was echoed by several other leading Italian political figures. "The state must take action, not only for recognition but also for protection of homosexuals' rights," said ...
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Lepchenko wins three-setter in Brussels Open
Varvara Lepchenko survived a lengthy, three-set challenge in Monday's first-round action at the Brussels Open tennis tournament. Lepchenko, the No. 7 seed, ...
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Russia The Day the Inspectors Came
This is how it is in today's Russia, one year since Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency. Over the last twelve months, the authorities have introduced a sweeping set of restrictive new laws. In addition to raids on nongovernmental groups, they are harassing, intimidating and imprisoning political activists. Government critics and even charities that can in no way be thought of as ...
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Rome March for Life Marks 35 Years of Legal Abortion in Italy
When We Lose Right to Life, We Lose All Rights, Says March SpokespersonBy Ann SchneibleROME, May 10, 2013 (Zenit.org) - "We have to stand up for our next generation," said Rome's March for Life spokesperson, Virginia Nunziante, in an interview with ZENIT.Thirty-five years after the legalization of abortion in Italy, thousands of pro-life advocates are expected to gather in Rome ...
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In global fight against cybercrime Spain becomes a frontline
Spanish police stopped two major hacking schemes in the country in recent months, raising alarm among experts about increasing activity in the country. Why is Spain a hacking ...
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US Sees Climate of Intolerance on Global Religious Freedom
The United States said the right to global religious freedom was challenged last year, with governments often creating a "climate of intolerance" leading to hatred and violence. In an annual report, the State Department said Monday government officials worldwide are often allowed to act with impunity while violating the religious rights of their countrymen. It said there often is ...
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Ugandan Police Shut Down Newspaper Offices
NAIROBI -- Police in Uganda's capital have closed down the offices of the Daily Monitor. According to the Daily Monitor's senior correspondent, police have declared the premises of their publication a crime scene and are doing a thorough search of the building. Earlier this month, the Daily Monitor published a series of stories about Uganda's coordinator of intelligence ...
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Russian Billionaire Lebedev Pleads Not Guilty in Court
MOSCOW -- Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev has pleaded not guilty to charges of hooliganism motivated by political hatred. Lebedev says that he is being targeted by Russian President Vladimir Putin because Putin believes he is funding the opposition. Alexander Lebedev, co-owner of Novaya Gazeta, Russia's leading opposition newspaper, went on trial Monday in a Moscow court. Lebedev ...
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Deadly Tornadoes Tear Through US Midwest
Zach Champion walks through the rubble of his mobile home looking for his belongings, in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, destroyed in Sunday's tornado, near Shawnee, Oklahoma, May 20, ...
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Iran Russia Hezbollah Top Backers in Syrian Regimes Success
The protracted fighting in Syria is not happening within a bubble, amid reports of clandestine support for the Bashar al Assad regime from Hezbollah, Iran and Russia, and an ongoing effort to establish an international peace ...
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Mourinho to leave Real Madrid at end of season
Jos Mourinho will leave Real Madrid CF at the end of the season after a three-year tenure that brought a record-breaking Liga campaign and three UEFA Champions League ...
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France must reform or face punitive measures - EUs Oettinger
Reuters © European Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger addresses a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels June 6, 2012. REUTERS/Laurent ...
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Dream return for Hanley in Germany
Cameron Hanley returned to the Grand Prix winner's podium in Germany after a near two-year absence caused by a freak accident to his knee that resulted in a total of 17 operations. Competing at the five-star Riders' Tour Grand Prix in Wiesbaden, the Mayo-born rider and the 10-year-old gelding Antello Z collected €19,000 after seeing off a strong international challenge in the ...
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Car bombs in south Russia leave at least 8 people dead
MOSCOW--At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Monday in twin car blasts outside a court building in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala in the restless region of ...
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Bankia compensation qualms hurt faith in Spains banks
MADRID--Many duped savers at Spanish lender Bankia are shunning a state-supervised compensation scheme in favor of expensive lawsuits, prolonging a misselling scandal and complicating efforts to restore faith in the banking ...
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ITE Groups first-half profit falls 15 on rising costs lack of 2 Russia events
Corporate event planner ITE Group PLC reported a 15-percent fall in first-half profit, hurt by rising overhead costs and the absence of two key biennial events in ...
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Rioters in Sweden protest alleged brutality racism after police shoot elderly man
Violence Rioters took to the streets of a Stockholm neighborhood on Sunday, torching cars and throwing stones at police. Officers reportedly called residents "monkeys" and other derogatory terms as they protested against a recent police shooting. Between 60 to 100 people - most of them young men - took part in the riots which began around 10pm local time in the Stockholm district of ...
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Anzhi Takes Bronze in Russia’s Football Premier League
MOSCOW, May 20 (R-Sport) - Anzhi Makhachkala cemented a best-ever third place in the Russian Premier League on Monday after Samuel Eto'o's goal gave Guus Hiddink's side a 2-1 win over Lokomotiv Moscow. The Cameroonian forward nodded home at the back post on 74 minutes to give the billionaire-backed side three points that take them out of range of Spartak Moscow and FC Kuban, the ...
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Briton Julian Stevenson under formal investigation in Lyon over murder of own children
A divorced British father with a history of drunkenness and domestic violence was formally accused of the murder of his two children, who were found with their throats cut in his apartment in southern ...
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Pope statue unveiled in Italian potato field
NAPLES, Italy (AFP) – The first-ever statue of Pope Francis has been unveiled in a potato field near Naples — an unorthodox homage to the fact that the Argentine pope’s ancestors were farmers in northern Italy. The statue will be presented to the pope next month by Italian actor Barbato De Stefano, who comes from the village of Cicciano where it was presented and has financed ...
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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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