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British Village Protests Plan for Shale Gas Drilling
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NY to Host US-Russia ‘Battles On Ice’
WASHINGTON, May 24 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – Next month firefighters from New York, Boston and Russia will trade in their flame-resistant gear for shoulder pads and ice skates and team up against each other – and some of the best known names in hockey – for the third annual ‘Battles On Ice,’ a two-part annual competition in New York that organizers say ...
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Frigide Barjot The French anti-gay marriage leader under attack
John Lichfield has been The Independent's man in Paris since 1997, covering French news. Before that, he was the paper's Foreign Editor and he has also worked in Brussels and ...
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Golf-European Tour PGA Championship scores
May 24 (Infostrada Sports) - Scores from the European Tour PGA Championship at the par-72 course on Friday in Wentworth. The cut was set at 146. 138 Francesco Molinari (Italy) 70 68 139 George Coetzee ...
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Europes centre-left a programme without frontiers | Editorial
With Munich matched against Dortmund in the Champions League final at Wembley tonight, today is a day to remind us once again that Germans are uncommonly good at football. But they have always been pretty decent at centre-left politics too. No centre-left political party ...
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Frances luxury industry tourism hurt by Paris street crime
The streets of Paris are getting a reputation of being unsafe for tourists and is threatening the great brand names of French fashion. A leading association that counts Chanel and Dior as members urged the authorities to take action on the climate of insecurity which it said could keep cash-flush tourists away. Several recent incidents have tarnished the image of Paris - the world's most ...
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Man held following €1.7m drugs haul
A man has been arrested in Dublin after a major drugs haul worth EUR1.7m.Garda searched a house on The Strand, Donabate yesterday and recovered almost EUR1m worth of ecstasy and EUR700,000 in cannabis herb.A 36-year-old man is being questioned at Mountjoy Garda ...
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Hampton beats Brussels Open No. 2 seed
Upsets by Jamie Hampton and Kaia Kanepi marked Friday's play at the WTA's Brussels Open but scheduled semifinals were postponed. Weather has been an issue at the tournament in Belgium through the week. Play Friday was delayed but officials were able to get two quarterfinals, which were postponed by rain Thursday, completed. As a result the semifinals and finals will be contested ...
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Inter fire Stramaccioni hire Mazzarri
FC Internazionale Milano have appointed former SSC Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri after Andrea Stramaccioni paid for the club's failure to qualify for European ...
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Futsal Day at the UEFA Champions Festival
Futsal took centre stage on the second day of the UEFA Champions Festival in London with stars of the small-sided sport joining football aces on a day when England's prowess was ...
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Hummels hopes for happy ending for Dortmund
Passed fit after an ankle knock, Mats Hummels feels Borussia Dortmund will pen the last chapter of the "most fantastic story of all" if they beat FC Bayern Mnchen in Saturday's ...
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Dortmund and Bayern promise final masterclass
Borussia Dortmund's Jrgen Klopp describes FC Bayern Mnchen as "perfect opponents" in the UEFA Champions League final with Jupp Heynckes confident of success at ...
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Russia says Syrian government agrees to peace talks but skepticism persists on both sides
Demonstrators shout Islamic slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul May 24, 2013. (MURAD ...
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IMF chief named key witness in French payoff case
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde arrives for a second day of the court hearing at a special court house, in Paris, Friday, May 24, 2013. Lagarde faced questioning at a special Paris court Friday over her role in the 400 million euro ($520 million) pay-off to a controversial businessman when she was France's finance minister. (AP Photo/Thibault ...
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Study reveals mans rocky road to walking
The rugged landscape created by volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate shifts in east and south Africa millions of years ago may be what prompted our human ancestors to start walking on two legs.New research published in the journal Antiquity challenges the commonly-held theory that early hominins (members of the broad human family) were forced onto two feet on the ground because climate change ...
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Molinari leads European PGA Cship by one
Italy's Francesco Molinari leads the way after two rounds of the European PGA Championship at Wentworth but several of his European Ryder Cup team mates missed the cut.Molinari was six under par after a second-round 68, making four birdies in his last eight holes by lunchtime.A cluster of players finished a shot back from Molinari including South Africa's George Coetzee, Marc Warren of ...
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European Commission Calls for Direct Line for Missing Children
Brussels, May 24 (Prensa Latina) The European Commission (EC) called today its country members to redouble efforts to spread the telephone number 116000, a common direct line to denounce the disappearance of children. A day before the International Missing Children's Day, EC's vice president and Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, said that this line can help to save lives, but it ...
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Turkey - Charges against Turkish intellectuals must be dropped group says
As the next hearing of the trial of Rag?p and Deniz Zarakolu opens on 27 May, the International Publishers Association (IPA) continues to urge the Turkish authorities to drop all charges against both publishers and release Deniz Zarakolu, who has been detained for close to 600 days without a verdict, immediately.Publishers Rag?p and Deniz Zarakolu were among more than 40 people arrested in ...
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Rivaroxaban Gains Approval In Europe For ACS Indication
) has been approved in Europe for the prevention of atherothrombotic events (cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction or stroke) following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The drug was approved at a dose of 2.5 mg twice-daily and should be used in combination with standard antiplatelet therapy. Rivaroxaban is now the only oral anticoagulant to receive an ACS ...
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UK court Lawmakers wifes tweet was libelous
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's High Court has ruled that a tweet posted by the wife of the speaker of Parliament about a politician wrongly linked to child sex abuse was ...
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IMF searches soul blames Europe
paper released Thursdayon sovereign-debt restructurings . The study contains the strongest repudiation yet of some of the policy choices the fund helped make over the last three years. The paper, under the yawn-invoking title "Sovereign Debt Restructuring — Recent Developments and Implications for the Fund's Legal and Policy Framework," is everything but boring (at least to ...
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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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Spain criticized for police violence forced evictions
Amnesty International criticized the country in two areas linked to its economic meltdown. They were "aggressiveness" by police confronting protest marches and forced evictions of people who have defaulted on mortgages or are living in squatter camps, ThinkSpain reported Thursday. The report cited two cases where police violence appears to have caused death or serious injury. Angela ...
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Maria Jose most popular names in Spain
Spain's National Statistics Institute said Maria and Jose are the most common names in the country. The institute said about 7 million women in Spain are named Maria and about 2.89 million men are named Jose, ThinkSpain reported Friday. Other popular names for girls are Ana, Isabel and Dolores, while the most popular boys' names after Jose are Antonio, Juan and ...
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Molinari in front at European Tours PGA Championship
Francesco Molinari, shown in a 2012 file photo, on Friday jumped into the lead of the European Tour's BMW PGA Championship in England. UPI/Mark ...
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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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