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Britiain should have voted against crazy EU rule on serving olive oil say MPs
British officials should have voted against a "crazy" European Union ban on restaurants serving olive oil in jugs or dishes, MPs have ...
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Dire outlook despite warming pause
While the last decade was the hottest since records began in 1880, the rate of increase showed a stabilisation despite ever-rising levels of Earth-warming greenhouse gases in the ...
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Letters Europe and the fight for fair wages
Exit Europe from the left , 18 May), but he is mistaken to imagine we can improve matters by leaving. Should we do so we will then be out in the cold and easily picked off by big business and finance demanding lower wages in order for the UK to receive investment or prevent relocation.Instead, the answer has to be to align the public anger about austerity and businesses anxiety about declining ...
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Ryan Fogle U.S. Embassy Employee Accused Of Being CIA Spy Leaves Russia NTV Television Reports
A man looks in Moscow on May 14, 2013, at a computer screen displaying a photo published by Russian state English language television RT website, which shows a man, identified as Ryan C. Fogle, the third secretary of the political section of Washington's embassy in Moscow (L), being escorted by a Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB, ex-KGB) agent (R) during his arrest. (AFP/Getty ...
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Critics Notebook Coen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis Is Popular at Cannes
CANNES, France ...
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Turkish Super Lig Wrap Galatasaray win Besiktas beaten
Champions Galatasaray ended their season with a 2-0 home win over Trabzonspor to finish 10 points clear of second-placed Fenerbahce.Goals in each half from Albert Riera and Burak Yilmaz on Saturday wrapped up the points for the title winners, while Fenerbahce went down 3-2 away at Karabukspor, who secured their Super Lig survival.Mehmet Topuz opened the scoring for the visitors before a Lomana ...
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Deportivo climb out of bottom three
RC Deportivo La Corua lifted themselves out of the relegation zone thanks to a 2-0 victory against RCD Espanyol, with rivals Real Zaragoza suffering a late 2-1 loss to Athletic ...
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Mice and other critters land in Russia after 30 days in space not all survive
Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems and the lead researcher for the Bion-M project, talks to reporters Sunday while others examine the "space ark" capsule in the ...
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Russia to Sell Air-Defense System to Syria
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Two days after American and Russian leaders met in Moscow to talk about restoring peace in war-torn Syria, Russia announced plans to sell advanced anti-missile defense systems to the Syrian government, ...
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Lord Howe David Cameron is losing control of Conservative party over Europe issue
The former conservative minister Lord Howe, who served as foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher, has claimed that David Cameron is "losing control" of his party over ...
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King Juan Carlos of Spain a man of sacrifice
Such as last April, when the king - then the honorary president of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Spain - was caught jetting off to Botswana for a secret elephant-hunting safari at an estimated cost of 8,000 a ...
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American accused of spying reportedly leaves Russia
MOSCOW – The U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying in Moscow flew out of Russia on Sunday, five days after he was ordered to leave the country, NTV television reported. The Kremlin-loyal TV station broadcast video Sunday evening showing Ryan Fogle going through passport control and security at Sheremetyevo International Airport. He also was pictured in the company of embassy staff as he ...
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US Official White House Was Unaware of IRS Misdeeds
President Barack Obama and White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer, right, react to a reporter's question as they leave the Treasury Department in Washington, Jan. 16, ...
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Chen Guangcheng pressures the EU on secret human rights talks with China
The European Union must go public with the results of human rights talks with China’s leaders, and publish its own list of people known to be suffering repression and persecution, Chen Guangcheng, the exiled Chinese dissident has ...
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No commercials TV channel starts broadcast in Russia
Moscow, May 19 : Russia's Public Television, which will be governed by the public rather than by the state or the channel owners and which will not run any commercials, Sunday started its broadcast. It offers viewers news, films, entertainment and cognitive ...
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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen injures back falling into pool
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has broken a bone in her lower spine by falling into an empty swimming pool at her mansion near ...
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Keep the change say Germans alarmed by European plan to scrap copper coins
Desperate to save pennies as the economic crisis continues to bite, the European Union is mulling over phasing out one and two cent coins after it emerged that they cost more than their face value to ...
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Letters The benefit of European Union membership outweighs the cost
The economic case to stay in the EU is overwhelming. The creation of the Single Market was instigated by Britain, and is now the world's largest trading bloc, containing half a billion people with a GDP of 10 trillion. To Britain, membership is estimated to be worth between 31bn and 92bn per year in income gains, or between 1,200 to 3,500 for every ...
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EU Leaders Struggling With Economic Growth to Turn to Tax Policy
tax evasion and on the bloc's energy policy. The leaders of the 27-member bloc will meet in Brussels May 22 to agree on a plan governing how EU countries share tax data after finance ministers last week failed to reach a decision. They'll also examine energy costs and investment, as the euro-area economy continues to be in a recession. "In the current economic context we must ...
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EU finds time to legislate on olive oil
Critics ridiculed European Union bureaucrats over the weekend for taking time off fighting the euro zone's debt crisis to impose strict new rules on how restaurants serve olive oil. From January 1, 2014, eateries will be banned from serving oil to diners in small glass jugs or dipping bowls, and forced instead to use pre-sealed, non-refillable bottles that must be disposed of when ...
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Germany urges implementation of historic agreement normalizing Serbia-Kosovo relations
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, center, waves at Nikola Tesla airport in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Germany’s foreign minister says Serbia should start with the implementation of an agreement normalizing ties with Kosovo to advance in its bid to join the European Union. (AP Photo/Darko ...
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Algerian newspaper editor accuses government of censorship
ALGIERS, Algeria - An editor has accused Algeria's government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers. Hicham Aboud, editor of the My Journal and Djaridati newspapers, said that happened after he rejected an order from the Communication Ministry on Saturday night to remove an article from the papers that claimed hospitalized President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had ...
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President of TRNC EU has to accept existence of Turkish Cypriot state
Eroglu descibed admitting Greek Cypriots into EU as a mistake President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Dervis Eroglu received a delegation from Turkey`s EU Ministry in Lefkosa.Speaking while receiving the Turkish delegation, President Eroglu underlined that the EU had to accept the existence of the Turkish Cypriot state, the plane trips to and from the TRNC and how the Turkish ...
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Rodents space capsule returns to Russia
A biological research satellite capsule returned to Earth Sunday with its mice, gerbils, geckos and plants after a 30-day flight, Russian space officials said. The capsule landed shortly after 7 a.m., and officials immediately opened its hatches to bring the animals out of the capsule, RIA Novosti reported. Russia launched the biological satellite April 19 with eight Mongolian gerbils, 45 ...
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Arsenal pip Tottenham to fourth place
Arsenal FC edged a 1-0 win at Newcastle United FC and pipped Tottenham Hotspur FC - who overcame Sunderland AFC by the same scoreline - to the final UEFA Champions League ...
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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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