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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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Two Jihadists Shot After Niger Attack
Armed forces from France and Niger forces have shot dead two more Islamist militants who took part in an attack on a military barracks in northern Niger. A journalist at the scene said French special forces took part in an operation Friday to subdue the two militants, who had holed up in the barracks following Thursday's suicide bombing and shooting attack. Niger's defense ...
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US Lawmakers Head to Russia Will Ask About Boston Bomber
Brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing. Tamerlan was closely monitored while in Dagestan last ...
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Adidas and Puma take decades-old rivalry to European soccer final
Bayern Munich players attend a training session ahead of their Champions League final soccer match against Borussia Dortmund at Wembley Stadium in London, May 24, 2013. German sportswear makers Adidas and Puma will renew their own decades-old rivalry at the match, with Adidas in Bayern's corner and Puma in Dortmund's. (EDDIE ...
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Multiple Draw in Hemingway Fishing Tournament
Havana, May 24 (Prensa Latina) The U.S. crew of the boat Unclaimed, the South African Jour Bon la Vie and French Venetian II lead today the 63rd Billfishing Tournament Ernest Hemingway. After two competitive days in the northern shores of this capital, six of the competing teams have the same amount of points, but the first three places are awarded by the order in which they make their captures. ...
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Cuban GM Dominguez Beat Ivanchuk in FIDE Grand Prix
Athens, May 24 (Prensa Latina) The Grand Master (GM) Leinier Dominguez defeated today his Ukrainian pair Vassily Ivanchuk during the third round of the fourth stop of the FIDE Grand Prix Chess, based in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. Dominguez, the best Latin American chess player for several years, overcame his opponent with black pieces after 39 moves of a Gruenfeld Defense. For the Cuban, ...
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Stirring the pot McDonalds serving pasta in Italy
The fast-food giant is partnering with Italian pasta brand Barilla to serve a pasta salad with tuna, tomatoes, peppers, capers and olives with a price of 4.90 euros. Roberto Masi, CEO of McDonald's Italy, said in a statement the new offering was "responding to the tastes of the Italians."Bob O'Brien, global senior vice president of the foodservice division of market research ...
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Eurozone more stable needs a more European UK Draghi
LONDON -- The eurozone is more stable than a year ago but economic conditions remain challenging and governments must push on with reforms and banking union plans, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on ...
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Indias Tata Steel reports loss on falling demand in Europe
MUMBAI -- India's Tata Steel, one of the world's biggest steelmakers, on Thursday swung to a quarterly net loss from a profit a year ago due to falling demand in its key European ...
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European stock markets steadier after sharp drop
LONDON/HONG KONG--European stock markets rebounded modestly on Friday, following sharp losses suffered the previous day, failing to record bigger gains despite positive German economic ...
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Cars shops ablaze in 5th night of Sweden riots
STOCKHOLM -- More than a dozen cars were torched and schools, shops and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs for the fifth straight night, police and firefighters said ...
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EU Leader Federal Europe to Become a Reality
Jose Manuel Barroso, the most powerful leader in the European Union, says Europe will become a united political federation within the next few years. The European Commission president is laying out plans for an "intensified political union" that matches the economic cooperation in the EU. That includes plans for an elected "president of Europe." "This is about the ...
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Turkish restaurant Anatolian Table open in midtown
The new Anatolian Table bistro in midtown Sacramento is celebrating its grand opening diner Thursday with a private party. It's already open, though. The new Anatolian Table bistro in midtown Sacramento is celebrating its grand opening dinner Thursday with a private party. But if you want to see what the Turkish restaurant is all about, its already open. The 70-seat restaurant opened for ...
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French government seeks to ban extreme right-wing group
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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Stockholm police ask for reinforcements to quell ongoing riots
Police in Sweden have appealed to residents to photograph and film people they see rioting in the streets, as they struggle to bring under control the violent unrest that has spread throughout the capital city of Stockholm for more than a ...
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Unrest may spread across Europe warns Red Cross chief
Rocketing unemployment and poverty in some areas of Europe could lead to widespread civil unrest, unless governments take measures to address the humanitarian consequences of austerity measures, the secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has ...
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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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