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Europe is Searching for Scapegoats
EU Battle Heats Up: '50% Chance UK Out in 5 Years' ) "I was concerned with the lessons of history where a persistence of economic weakness forces people to find scapegoats - even, for example, to the rise of ...
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Retired Anglican priest jailed for sex abuse
LONDON (AP) -- A retired Church of England priest was jailed for 10 years Monday after a jury found him guilty of 36 separate sex offenses against children in the 1960s and ...
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European stocks close higher
EUROPE'S leading stock markets have closed higher, with London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares adding 0.48 per cent to 6755.63 ...
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Ian Reifowitz Hello Republicans Japan Switches to Stimulus Gets Growth Europe Sticks With Austerity Stays in Recession
right now in Japan and in Europe. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has embarked on aggressive measures to stimulate Japan's long-moribund economy since he took office in December, and the result so far has been strong growth -- and, perhaps, liftoff after a triple-dip recession. Europe, on the other hand, remains mired in the muck of austerity and economic contraction. To briefly recap ...
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2 dead 20 injured in explosions in Dagestan Russia
MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Two people are dead and at least 20 are injured after two car bombs exploded Monday in Dagestan, in Russia's North Caucasus region, where armed militias are leading an Islamist insurgency. Both blasts were near the headquarters of the court bailiffs and appeared to have been detonated by remote control, a Russian state agency told Reuters. Police cordoned ...
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Russia Assad foes must come to Syria meeting without conditions
Russia (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday it is crucial for Syrian opposition envoys to engage in peace talks without setting preconditions, apparently referring to demands for ...
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UPDATE 1-Greeces Piraeus Bank one-off gain masks profit drop
Mon May 20, 2013 11:58am EDT (Adds CEO comment, background) * Q1 profit boosted by 3.41 bln euro goodwill gain * Non-performing loan ratio up to 31 pct, pre-tax loss at 336 mln eur (Recasts lead, adds detail on Greek economy, company comment) ATHENS, May 20 (Reuters) - Greece's Piraeus Bank said profit surged in the first quarter after a one-off gain on the book value of its Cypriot bank ...
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Former Pakistani Ruler Musharraf Granted Bail
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination. Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, returned to Pakistan in March to contest a May 11 general election after nearly ...
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Faisst out of final Maritz joins Wolfsburg
Verena Faisst will miss Thursday's final against Olympique Lyonnais after being diagnosed with glandular fever, "a massive loss" said VfL Wolfsburg coach Ralf ...
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European Council Casting shadows on energy policy
From a lack of investment to an underdeveloped renewable energy sector, plus competition from American coal: the domestic energy market faces a slew of obstacles. This is driving concerned European groups begin to put the EU under ...
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Lavrov Categorically Reaffirms Rejection of Interference in Syria
Moscow, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Serguei Lavrov affirmed today that interference to the country's domestic affairs must not be part of any initiative related to a possible resolution of the Syrian conflict. The matter concerning the future of President Bashar al-Assad and other issues must be resolved by the Syrian people, the minister told the Rossiskaya ...
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Looking for love Prague metro system to introduce carriage especially for singles
Robert Mueller - 20 May 2013 RAIL passengers searching for love in the Czech capital need look no further than the daily commute as the city makes plans to designate carriages on its underground trains for ...
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Google Microsoft and Yahoo are secret backers behind European Privacy Association
IDG News Service - After being accused of a lack of transparency by an independent watchdog, the European Privacy Association (EPA) has confirmed that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are backers. The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), which works to expose privileged access in E.U. policy making, said in a complaint Thursday that the European Privacy Association is working to represent industry ...
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Ryanair DAX gains help European shares edge higher
LONDON | Mon May 20, 2013 11:33am EDT LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - European shares edged to fresh five-year highs on Monday, boosted by strength in German stocks and a travel sector lifted by a surge in Ryanair. Travel and leisure stocks gained 1.1 percent, led by a 6.9 percent jump in Ryanair after it reported expectation-beating earnings for the past year, lifting its shares to a record ...
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Russia Peru to Sign MiG-29 Jet Upgrade Deal
Russia and Peru will sign a contract to upgrade Lima's fleet of Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters by the end of May, Konstantin Biryulin, deputy head of Russia’s Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service, said on Monday. Belarus sold around twenty of the fighter jets to Peru in 1997. According to defenseindustrydaily.com, Peru signed a contract in 2008 for Russia's UAC MiG to ...
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Monarch Alternative Capital Strengthens Position in Europe
NEW YORK and LONDON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Monarch Alternative Capital LP, a leading distressed debt investment firm based in New York, today announced the opening of an office in London by its subsidiary Monarch Alternative Capital (Europe) LLP to bolster its investment activities in Europe. Monarch and its portfolio managers have a long history of involvement in Europe, beginning ...
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Czech president in dispute over gay rights
PRAGUE (AP) -- Czech President Milos Zeman is being criticized for refusing to grant a university professorship - the nation's top academic title - to a critic of his, allegedly because the man is also a gay rights ...
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10 Azerbaijanis to prison after headscarf rally
MOSCOW (AP) -- A court in Azerbaijan has convicted and sentenced 10 people for breaching public order following a violent protest against a ban on wearing headscarves in ...
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With end of Afghan war in sight Europe pushes business
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The European Union threw its weight behind developing Afghanistan's small but promising private sector this week, in the hope that business can usher in stability and peace once foreign troops leave by the end of next ...
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My uncle was able to have a dignified death – as he lived in Switzerland | Rosie Harper
I've studied ethics as a branch of philosophy - it's fun. The theory, that is. But it is also vacuous. Worthwhile ethics can only be done with real people in front of you. You only know you've got it right when you would be happy to apply your theory to those you love.Notionally, I was convinced that a loving and compassionate God would not demand of a person extreme and prolonged ...
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Cannes Sci-Fi Horror Tale Human Race Sells for Germany Australia Japan
, KSM took German-speaking Europe, Anchor Bay picked up the film for Australia and New Zealand and IPA bought Japanese rights. "We are receiving offers every day" said ...
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Economic case for UK to stay in Europe is overwhelming
First it was rebel members of parliament, now business leaders have waded into the debate over Britain’s membership of the European Union. Top industry figures have signed a letter in the British Independent newspaper, saying the economic case to stay in Europe is ';overwhelming.'; Virgin founder Richard Branson is among them.The leaders say the UK stands to lose up to 108 ...
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Car bomb and second explosion killed at least 3 people in Russias province of Dagestan
MAKHACHKALA, Russia - An official says two explosions have occurred outside a court building in Russia's restive province of Dagestan, killing at least three people and wounding about a dozen. The first was caused by a car bomb and the second occurred after police arrived on the scene in Makhachakala, the provincial capital, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov. He ...
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Police find bodies of two young Dutch brothers in drainage pipe
The bodies of two young Dutch brothers whose father committed suicide were found in a drainage pipe near the Rhine River, police in the Netherlands said. The boys -- Ruben, 9, and Julian, 7 -- disappeared May 7 while spending the day with their father, police said. The father, whose name was not reported, committed suicide in the woods near the town of Doorn, investigators said. Police and ...
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Lu Upsets 5th-Seeded Seppi in France
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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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