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Spreadbetters see Europe stocks sinking after Fed
PARIS, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:03am EDT PARIS, June 20 (Reuters) - Financial spreadbetters expect Europe's main stock indexes to drop on Thursday, tracking losses on Wall Street after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke confirmed the Fed would begin winding down its stimulus spending later this year. Spreadbetters expect London's FTSE 100 to open around 100 points ...
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Star of Acclaimed TV Series The Sopranos Dies
U.S. film and television actor James Gandolfini, who portrayed an emotionally vulnerable crime boss on the groundbreaking television drama "The Sopranos," has died at the age of 51. Statements issued by the actor's managers and U.S. cable television network HBO, which aired the series from 1999 through 2007, said Gandolfini died while on vacation in Italy from a possible heart ...
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Turkish unions business groups back crackdown on Taksim Square protest
The Turkish ruling elite is closing ranks around Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown against protests. Threatening to send the army against the population, Erdogan has sent riot police to violently clear Taksim Square, arresting hundreds of protesters Tuesday.WSWS supporters in Turkey reported that 20 business groups and trade union federations took out a full-page advertisement ...
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Pope Francis Calls to Protect Refugees
Vatican City, Jun 20 (Preensa Latina) Pope Francis called today all the people and institutions in the World to protect refugees, during a public audience at Saint Peter''s Square, before more than 90,000 people, the local media reported. The Supreme Pontiff recalled with this action the holding of the World Refugee Day on June 20. Allegoarically to the date, he urged to consider the ...
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Gilmore agrees provisional deal on trillion-euro budget for seven years
PROVISIONAL agreement has been reached on a near trillion euro EU-wide budget for the next seven years, under negotiations involving the Irish ...
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Tax dodgers Dolce and Gabbana sentenced for €400m evasion
The designers to the stars were found guilty of failing to declare EUR1bn of income to Italy's tax authorities. Prosecutors said the pair sold their D&G and Dolce & Gabbana brands to their own holding company, Gabo, in Luxembourg in 2004 for EUR360m - one-third of its market value - to slash their tax liability. This, plus other dodges, mean the pair owed more than EUR400m to the ...
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Families of soldiers killed in Iraq win compensation bid
Families of British soldiers killed and injured fighting in Iraq have been given the go-ahead to bring compensation claims against the ...
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Kate to give birth naturally but does not know gender
The future king or queen of England will be born in the private Lindo wing of St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. Prince William, who was also born there, will be with his wife throughout the delivery. St James's Palace has also moved to end speculation over the gender of the baby by insisting the Duke and Duchess do not know the sex of their baby and have chosen not to be told until it ...
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Irish pilgrims caught in floods around Lourdes
A delegation of around 500 people from the diocese of Cashel and Emly left Shannon Airport for the Catholic pilgrimage site last week. Floods in south-west France have forced the closure of the site in Lourdes and the evacuation of visitors from nearby hotels. Water swirled up to 5ft deep in the grotto where nearly six million believers from around the world, many gravely ill, come every year ...
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Roma coach Rudi Garcia targeting Europe
Garcia appointed new Roma coach New Roma manager Rudi Garcia has targeted a European spot as his main objective heading into his first Serie A ...
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Britain France face EU action over high Eurostar charges
Four members of the Scot's Guards pose for a photograph next to a new Eurostar train, during a media event, in central London, October 7, ...
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Dreamliner battery maker ties up with Germanys Bosch
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's GS Yuasa, the battery supplier for Boeing's troubled Dreamliner, on Thursday announced a tie-up with German technology giant Bosch to develop lithium-ion batteries.The pair are planning to set up a joint venture early next year with trading house Mitsubishi Corp. that would research and develop "high-performance" powerpacks, GS Yuasa said."These ...
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S. Sudan Uganda to Step up Border Road Patrols
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN -- South Sudan and Uganda have agreed to step up security patrols on their common border and on the highway linking Juba to Kampala after a spate of attacks against motorists, officials said Wednesday. "They agreed to proceed to enforce the deployment of more security forces to provide security on the border areas," South Sudan police spokesman James Monday Enocka ...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom in tears after European firm deletes files from shuttered site
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom said Thursday he was "in tears" after a European company deleted all the data it was hosting from his shuttered file-sharing site. Netherlands-based LeaseWeb announced it had deleted all Megaupload files from 630 servers. LeaseWeb said in a statement it hosted the data for over a year at its own expense without receiving any ...
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Tour across Africa without leaving the Netherlands
Besides the permanent outdoor exhibition that, within one square kilometer, leads visitors across the continent’s different landscapes and community architectures, the museum’s various halls are filled with traditional and modern African art. In this edition of Africa in Progress, we visit the museum and meet its curator. This show ...
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China Russia face sanctions in wake of US world human trafficking report
US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during an event releasing the Annual Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) Report at the State Department in Washington, DC, June 19, 2013. The United States on Wednesday downgraded China, Russia and Uzbekistan to the bottom of a US table for failing to make greater efforts to combat human trafficking, a move that may spark sanctions. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ...
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Obama’s Modest Goals Obscured by Conflicts on Europe Trip
Barack Obama traveled to Europe with his expectations set low. He met them. Obama and other western leaders were unable to move Russian ...
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Kerry calls Karzai twice to smooth waters over Taliban talks
Hamid Karzai twice to try to mend fences over the U.S. outreach to the Taliban. The phone diplomacy occurred after Karzai said the Afghan government had suspended security talks with the United States in Kabul "in view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the peace process." "The secretary spoke with President ...
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Russia invests heavily in ecological innovations
The grounds are more than tangible. Up to 15 percent of Russia reside in cities and industrial agglomerations. Billions of tons of garbage and wastes have been accumulated, more and more garbage arrives daily, whereas separate collection and recycling - the basics of modern waste processing technologies - still remain a non-Russian phenomenon. Landfills, including unauthorized ones, poison ...
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Turkish delight served right on time to Mr. Erdogan
The standoff between the secular part of the Turkish people, brought up in the spirit of Ataturk and the Turkish government has been going on for several days already. It all started because the authorities of Istanbul wanted to destroy one of the few parks in the city to build a shopping complex there ...
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Yau Yau Ready for Peace Talks Murle Delegation
United Nations troops protect civilians in Jonglei state, where David Yau Yau's rebels have finally called for peace talks with the South Sudanese ...
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US Scrambles to Salvage Afghan Peace Talks
Top U.S. diplomats scrambled Wednesday to salvage plans for preliminary peace talks with the Taliban, after Afghan President Hamid Karzai refused to participate in the U.S.-led talks in Qatar. Mr. Karzai, apparently irked by the opening of a Taliban political office in Doha, Qatar, also canceled negotiations with Washington on a troop pact governing U.S. presence in the country after NATO ...
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Chinese vice premier in Russia to strengthen ties energy cooperation
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli arrived here Wednesday to strengthen ties and energy cooperation with Russia, aiming to give a new impetus to the unprecedented high level of relations between the two neighboring giants.Zhang's visit, a swift follow-up to the successful summit in Moscow between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in March, is designed to ...
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Russia loses $25b due to shell firms
The network of the fly-by-night companies has illegally funneled 760 billion rubles (about $25 billion) from Russian economy in the past three years, the outgoing chief of the Central Bank said Wednesday."This May, we received an official inquiry from the Interior Ministry about some organizations that were used for the illegal financial transactions by suspects in one of criminal ...
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Italy edge spirited Japan to seal final-four spot
Second-half substitute Sebastian Giovinco scored a dramatic 86th-minute winner on Wednesday as Italy defeated Japan 4-3 in a pulsating Confederations Cup Group A match.The result secured Italy and Brazil a place in the semifinals while eliminating Japan and Mexico from the tournament, considered a warmup event for next year's World Cup.CSKA Moscow midfielder Keisuke Honda and Manchester ...
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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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