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Pedrosa wins in France takes MotoGP lead
France Honda's Dani Pedrosa won the French MotoGP at Le Mans on Monday morning from Cal Crutchlow to take the lead in the world championship standings.The Spaniard, following up his win in Spain last time out, made light of the tricky early wet conditions to cross the line five seconds clear of Crutchlow.The Briton manfully shrugged off a fracture to his right shin in a crash in ...
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US-Russia 2013 Spy Row
Ryan Fogle, the man Russia's security services claimed to have captured last week as he tried to recruit a Russian to spy for the United States, left Russia on Sunday, NTV television ...
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EU criticizes Russia’s human rights record
EU commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva gives a press conference on the humanitarian crisis in Syria and the region, in this May 14, 2013 at the EU Headquarters in Brssels. ...
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Indian Chinese Leaders Discuss Border Dispute
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his visiting Chinese counterpart Sunday discussed efforts to resolve a decades-old border dispute between the world's two most populous ...
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Nigeria says 14 Militants 3 Soldiers Killed in Latest Fighting
Nigeria's military says it killed 14 Boko Haram militants and captured 20 others Sunday, as it presses its offensive against the al-Qaida-linked group in the country's restive ...
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Video U.S. diplomat accused of spying departs Russia
Ryan Fogle, a U.S. diplomat Moscow accused of trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer to work as a spy for the CIA, left Russia on ...
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Sweden hammers Switzerland to collect world hockey gold on home ice
Sweden's Loui Eriksson (C) celebrates his goal against Switzerland with teammates Erik Gustafsson and Gabriel Landeskog during their 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship final match at the Globe Arena in Stockholm May 19, 2013. (GRIGORY ...
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Sweden wins world hockey title
Swedish players react after winning the 2013 Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships gold medal match against Switzerland, at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Martti Kainulainen) FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY ...
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Sleep problems an Alzheimers warning
Breathing difficulties during sleep may be an early warning sign of future Alzheimer's disease, researchers believe.Experts are not sure how sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and Alzheimer's are linked.But evidence suggests some people who suffer from the sleep problem may already be starting to develop pre-symptomatic dementia.SDB is an umbrella term for a group of conditions that ...
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Britiain should have voted against crazy EU rule on serving olive oil say MPs
British officials should have voted against a "crazy" European Union ban on restaurants serving olive oil in jugs or dishes, MPs have ...
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Dire outlook despite warming pause
While the last decade was the hottest since records began in 1880, the rate of increase showed a stabilisation despite ever-rising levels of Earth-warming greenhouse gases in the ...
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Letters Europe and the fight for fair wages
Exit Europe from the left , 18 May), but he is mistaken to imagine we can improve matters by leaving. Should we do so we will then be out in the cold and easily picked off by big business and finance demanding lower wages in order for the UK to receive investment or prevent relocation.Instead, the answer has to be to align the public anger about austerity and businesses anxiety about declining ...
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Ryan Fogle U.S. Embassy Employee Accused Of Being CIA Spy Leaves Russia NTV Television Reports
A man looks in Moscow on May 14, 2013, at a computer screen displaying a photo published by Russian state English language television RT website, which shows a man, identified as Ryan C. Fogle, the third secretary of the political section of Washington's embassy in Moscow (L), being escorted by a Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB, ex-KGB) agent (R) during his arrest. (AFP/Getty ...
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Critics Notebook Coen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis Is Popular at Cannes
CANNES, France ...
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Turkish Super Lig Wrap Galatasaray win Besiktas beaten
Champions Galatasaray ended their season with a 2-0 home win over Trabzonspor to finish 10 points clear of second-placed Fenerbahce.Goals in each half from Albert Riera and Burak Yilmaz on Saturday wrapped up the points for the title winners, while Fenerbahce went down 3-2 away at Karabukspor, who secured their Super Lig survival.Mehmet Topuz opened the scoring for the visitors before a Lomana ...
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Deportivo climb out of bottom three
RC Deportivo La Corua lifted themselves out of the relegation zone thanks to a 2-0 victory against RCD Espanyol, with rivals Real Zaragoza suffering a late 2-1 loss to Athletic ...
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Mice and other critters land in Russia after 30 days in space not all survive
Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems and the lead researcher for the Bion-M project, talks to reporters Sunday while others examine the "space ark" capsule in the ...
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Russia to Sell Air-Defense System to Syria
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Two days after American and Russian leaders met in Moscow to talk about restoring peace in war-torn Syria, Russia announced plans to sell advanced anti-missile defense systems to the Syrian government, ...
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Lord Howe David Cameron is losing control of Conservative party over Europe issue
The former conservative minister Lord Howe, who served as foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher, has claimed that David Cameron is "losing control" of his party over ...
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King Juan Carlos of Spain a man of sacrifice
Such as last April, when the king - then the honorary president of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Spain - was caught jetting off to Botswana for a secret elephant-hunting safari at an estimated cost of 8,000 a ...
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American accused of spying reportedly leaves Russia
MOSCOW – The U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying in Moscow flew out of Russia on Sunday, five days after he was ordered to leave the country, NTV television reported. The Kremlin-loyal TV station broadcast video Sunday evening showing Ryan Fogle going through passport control and security at Sheremetyevo International Airport. He also was pictured in the company of embassy staff as he ...
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US Official White House Was Unaware of IRS Misdeeds
President Barack Obama and White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer, right, react to a reporter's question as they leave the Treasury Department in Washington, Jan. 16, ...
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Chen Guangcheng pressures the EU on secret human rights talks with China
The European Union must go public with the results of human rights talks with China’s leaders, and publish its own list of people known to be suffering repression and persecution, Chen Guangcheng, the exiled Chinese dissident has ...
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No commercials TV channel starts broadcast in Russia
Moscow, May 19 : Russia's Public Television, which will be governed by the public rather than by the state or the channel owners and which will not run any commercials, Sunday started its broadcast. It offers viewers news, films, entertainment and cognitive ...
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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen injures back falling into pool
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has broken a bone in her lower spine by falling into an empty swimming pool at her mansion near ...
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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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