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Europe stock markets slide in early trade
26/03/2013 20:33 CET European stock markets opened in a tailspin – after the US Federal Reserve’s announcement on Wednesday that it might scale back its bond buying programme. A flurry of selling saw ...
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Germanys main opposition party turns 150 amid sputtering election campaign Hollande visit
BERLIN - Germany's main opposition party is celebrating a bittersweet 150th birthday, as polls showing it trailing badly in the race for September elections, with a visit from a recent left-wing winner who has lost his lustre -- French President Francois Hollande. The Social Democratic Party is marking Thursday's anniversary with festivities in Leipzig, the eastern city where it was ...
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STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-EDRAM favours stocks exposed to U.S. economy
* Launches strategic review of U.S. services* FY pretax profit 152.1 mln stg vs 110.2 mln stg* Revenue falls 9.6 pct to 1.33 bln* Maintains guidance as U.S. uncertainty persistsLONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - British defence ...
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Cuban parliament leader says ties with Russia under full expansion
The relations between Cuba and Russia are under full expansion, Esteban Lazo, president of Cuban parliament, said on Friday. Lazo made the remarks after signing an agreement with the visiting leader of Russian Senate, Valentina Matviyenko, to boost the parliamentary cooperation between the two countries. The delegation of the Russian Senate arrived Thursday in Havana, headed by Matviyenko. ...
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Austrias SBO sees slower pick-up in oilfield spending
Thu May 23, 2013 5:43am EDT * Q1 orders fall to 93 mln euros from 129 mln year ago * EBIT falls 18 pct to 23.2 mln euros, missing poll average * CEO cautious on when orders likely to pick up * Shares fall as much as 3.2 pct By Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich VIENNA, May 23 (Reuters) - Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG gave a more cautious forecast of when recession-hit customers would start ...
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Czech police seek US man suspected of 4 murders
Brno Police spokeswoman Petra Vedrova identified him as Kevin Dahlgren, born in 1992, and released his photograph. A Facebook page containing the same photograph says that Dahlgren is from Palo Alto, California, and lives in the Czech Republic's second-largest city, ...
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France seeks to brand Hezbollah a ‘terrorist’ group
France is to call for the military arm of Hezbollah to be added to an EU terror blacklist due to its backing of the Syrian regime, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ...
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Umbria and Tuscany Italys rustic but refined heart
"The real revolution is to look at the places around you with new eyes. I saw people admiring the places I was living in and I realised I was lucky." For a tour guide, Giovanni Ramaccioni hasn't travelled far, but he's right. A native Umbrian, he was born in Citta di Castello, just 16 kilometres from Sansepolcro, where we start our bike ride. His wife, Michaela, is from this ...
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Blood in London Vicious Attack Seen as Possible Act of Terror
Authorities are treating the brutal attack in broad daylight on Wednesday afternoon as an act of Islamist terror, with Prime Minister David Cameron meeting with top security officials on Thursday morning. Investigators are looking into a possible Nigeria ...
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Brave woman tried to reason with London attackers
Police and forensic officers near the scene of an attack which has left one man confirmed dead and two people wounded near Woolwich barracks in London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of an assault Wednesday afternoon in the London neighbourhood of Woolwich. London Ambulance service said one man was found dead at the scene and two other men were taken to ...
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German opposition party marks bittersweet 150th
BERLIN -; Germany's main opposition party is celebrating a bittersweet 150th birthday, as polls showing it trailing badly in the race for September elections, with a visit from a recent left-wing winner who has lost his luster - French President Francois ...
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Muslim Council of Britain condemns Woolwich attack
A representative from the Muslim Council of Britain has condemned a machete attack in Woolwich, south-east London, in which one man was ...
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Euro zone slump eases in May
The downturn across euro zone businesses eased slightly this month, although a lack of new orders means the bloc's economy is likely to contract again in the second quarter, business surveys showed today. Markit's flash euro zone Services PMI, which surveys around 2,000 companies ranging from major banks to caterers, rose in May to 47.5, a three-month high, from 47 in April. While ...
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Putin finds it very important to pool efforts to ensure equal security in Euro-Atlantic space
MOSCOW, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin finds it very important to pool efforts of all countries and the expert community to ensure equal security and a joint strategy of the struggle against the threats and challenges emerging in the Euro-Atlantic ...
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Russia to cut strategic arms if US does the same - RF Chief of General Staff
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Theyve killed him theyve killed him - eyewitness accounts of the attack
Some described this part of south-east London as a peaceful and quiet place, while others said there was "always trouble". All were stunned by the cruelty that had bloodied their streets.Olu Peluola, 53, was one of the people who saw the sickening scene unfold. "I saw a man's body lying in the street. There was a man standing beside him holding a knife," he said. ...
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Killers are of Nigerian background
Boko Haram .The Foreign Office warns of a high threat from terrorism in the West African nation and raises the prospect of a risk of retaliatory attacks following the French intervention in Mali.Boko Haram is the most prominent terrorist threat in Nigeria. The group's extremists aspire to establish Islamic law in Nigeria and carry out attacks across states mainly in the north.In 2011, Boko ...
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Brutal killing sparks calls for great police powers
23 May 2013 The brutal terrorist killing of a man on the streets of London sparked calls for the Government to revive plans to extend internet and email monitoring powers to the security ...
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Religious groups condemn attack on London streets
Britain said the killers' use of "Islamic slogans" indicated they were motivated by their faith.A statement from the council said: "This is a truly barbaric act that has no basis in Islam and we condemn this unreservedly. Our thoughts are with the victim and his family."We understand the victim is a serving member of the Armed Forces. Muslims have long served in this ...
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Support Grows in Europe for Listing Hezbollah as Terror Group
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah meets with Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in this 2005 photo. (Photo: Supreme Leader website) (CNSNews.com) - Reversing long-held positions, the governments of Germany and France have both signaled their support for the European Union to designate Hezbollah - or at least its purported "military wing" - as a terrorist organization. The ...
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European markets dive following Nikkei slump
(1 hr 6 mins ago) Europe's main stock markets slumped at the start of trading today, with Frankfurt and Paris down more than 2 percent following a plunge in Tokyo. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index slumped 1.42 percent to 6,743.32 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 crashed 2.11 percent to 8,351.19 points and in Paris the CAC 40 shed 2.24 percent to 3,953.32, AFP reports. Tokyo ended ...
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EUs Barnier wants big companies to reveal national tax bills
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Large companies should disclose how much tax they pay in each country where they operate, the European Commission's top regulatory official said, in the text of a speech to be delivered on ...
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EUROPE MARKETS Europe Stocks Slide After China Data Fed Comments
LONDON – European stock markets opened with sharp losses on Thursday, after disappointing data from China and comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve about tapering its stimulus program stoked worries about slower global growth and less liquidity.The Stoxx Europe 600 index slumped 1.5% to 305.96, retreating after closing at the highest level since June 2008, reached on Wednesday.Banks ...
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The Netherlands “Morphological Modeling Using Delft3D” Set for September
The course ';Morphological modeling using Delft3D'; (16 to 20 Sep 2013, UNESCO-IHE, Delft) aims to train students in the application of process-baed morphodynamic modeling ...
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Russias Vozrozhdenie Q1 net profit down 36.7 pct yy
MOSCOW | Thu May 23, 2013 4:43am EDT MOSCOW May 23 (Reuters) - Vozrozhdenie, a mid-sized listed Russian bank, posted on Thursday a 36.7-percent decline in net profit for the first quarter of the year due to a rise in provisioning on bad loans. Vozrozhdenie, one of a handful of listed Russian banks that are not owned by the state, said its net profit came to 333 million roubles ($10.6 ...
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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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