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European Commission Tables Olive Oil Rule
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Europes Oil Market Gets Its Own Price Benchmarks Scandal
on May9. That transaction, which wasn't subject to any oversight by financial authorities, would help set the price of more than half the world's oil. The deal was reported to Platts, a unit ...
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Stephens out in Brussels
Fourth seed Sloane Stephens saw her Brussels Open campaign ended by a straight-sets quarter-final defeat to Shuai Peng on Thursday.The American suffered a 6-2 6-3 loss at the hands of her Chinese opponent to see her dreams of earning a maiden WTA title at the clay-court Premier event dashed.Peng could have faced compatriot Jie Zheng in the semis, but the right-hander suffered a three-set loss to ...
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Europe unwilling to fund USAs global defense ambition
In the past few years, the U.S., the NATO leader, has raised the question of the need for Europe to increase defense spending. Does Europe need to worry that much about its own security? NATO made the most recent attempt to exert pressure on the Europeans on May 6. How will European leaders ...
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The act of the unconditional capitulation of Germany was signed in a suburb of Berlin on May 8 1945. The Second World War ended. Most Europeans had very little idea of what the post-war world will look like. Washington was preparing to take on a le
The act of the unconditional capitulation of Germany was signed in a suburb of Berlin on May 8, 1945. The Second World War ended. The Third Reich collapsed under the onslaught of the Soviet Army and Anglo-American troops that were advancing from both the East and the West. Italians, French, Germans, Poles and Belgians were celebrating the victory over fascism. Most Europeans had very little ...
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Forcast Above-Average Storm Activity Likely During 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season
The 2013 Atlantic Hurricane season could be busier and deadlier than average, according to predictions released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. The six-month seasonal outlook for Atlantic storms will be above average says Jerry Bell, lead Atlantic hurricane forecaster with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. "The outlook is calling for 13 ...
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Wolfsburg planning pays off for Kellermann
Ralf Kellermann believes "a masterful tactical performance" was the key to VfL Wolfsburg's final success, while Patrice Lair pointed to Olympique Lyonnais' lack of ...
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Thomis and Henry rue missed Lyon chances
"We missed too many chances and in a European final you pay the price for that,"lodie Thomis told UEFA.com after Olympique Lyonnais' final defeat, and Amandine Henry ...
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Mass sell-off in Spains Bankia hit small investors
MADRID (Reuters) - Small investors in shares of in Spain's nationalised lender Bankia suffered new massive losses on Thursday as the stock plunged by more than 50 percent amid an abnormally high volume of trading which the stock market regulator said would be looked at closely.Tens of thousands of small savers, who were often missold preference shares and hybrid debt in Bankia, swapped ...
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Draghi says euro zone more stable needs a more European UK
Reuters © European Central Bank President Mario Draghi attends a debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Vincent ...
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Peng stuns Stephens in Brussels
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) - China's eighth seed Peng Shuai upset the rankings to defeat fourth-seeded American Sloane Stephens, 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday to reach the Brussels Open quarter-finals.Peng is now through to the seventh Premier-level semi-final of her career, having gone 1-5 in her previous six.However, she did make the final in the Belgian capital in 2011 where she lost to former world ...
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Rolf Harris bailed again until August
Rolf Harris' hopes that police were about to drop their investigation into sex abuse allegations have been dashed, with his bail renewed until ...
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Art Review New European Paintings Galleries 1250-1800 at the Met
When a monument wakes up, you notice. ...
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US stocks end slightly lower after Asia Europe rout
Trader Vincent Quinones, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the close of trading, Thursday, May 23, 2013. US stocks finished slightly lower Thursday, little-affected by a sharp selloff in Asian and European markets led by the 7.3 percent plunge of Japan’s Nikkei 225 index. AP PHOTO/RICHARD DREW NEW YORK--US stocks finished slightly lower Thursday, little-affected ...
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European Shares Fall Amid Worries About U.S. China
European shares fell sharply Thursday amid renewed concerns about the world's two biggest economies - the United States and China. The benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 slumped 2.22 per cent to 303.69 points in morning trading after signs that the US Federal Reserve might wind back its stimulus programme and the release of weak manufacturing data for China. The drop in the Stoxx 600 ...
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Li arrives in Switzerland for first EU trip
Europe since taking office in March. Li will meet with President of the Swiss Confederation Ueli Maurer, Vice President Didier Burkhalter and Head of Federal Department of Economic Affairs Johann Schneider-Ammann, with a series ...
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More than 70 Chinese workers detained in Russia
/enpproperty--> MOSCOW - Russian law enforcement authorities have detained 74 Chinese labor workers who allegedly have no identity documents in the Volgograd region, said the Interior Ministry of Russia Thursday. The workers, who are incapable of speaking Russian, were said to have been employed by a farm in the Nikolayevski district since last winter. They have been transferred into custody ...
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Head of Afghanistan Turkish Industrialists Businessmens Association was kidnapped…
KABUL - A Turkish businessman was kidnapped by armed assailants in Afghanistan late on Sunday.Sami Yavuz, head of Afghanistan Turkish Industrialists & Businessmen's Association, was kidnapped at around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday.Armed assailants forced 41-year-old Yavuz to get on a car, and kidnapped him in Kabul.Yavuz has been living in Kabul with his family for more than ten years.Afghan ...
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Turkish interior minister says no al-Qaida involvement in the deadliest attack to hit Turkey-Syria border sinc…
Turkish interior minister says no al-Qaida involvement in the deadliest attack to hit Turkey-Syria border since the beginning of the Syrian uprising HATAY - Turkish interior minister has said there was no al-Qaeda involvement in twin car bomb attacks in a Turkish town near the Syrian frontier, the deadliest cross-border violence in Turkey since Syria`s popular uprising began in March ...
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Wines of The Times White Wines as Greek as the Sea
The white wine grapes of Greece ...
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Syrias Civil War Fuels Violence in Iraq
Ominous ties are emerging between skyrocketing sectarian violence in Iraq and Syria's civil war. Analysts say al-Qaida-linked militants are flowing back and forth from both countries and are seeking to use religious differences to bring down the government, not only in Damascus, but also in Baghdad. Iraqis are witnessing the worst violence to rock their country in five years. Bombings ...
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Moore Oklahoma Holds First Funeral of Tornado Victim
Moore, Oklahoma held the first funeral for a victim of Monday's monster tornado -- a nine year-old girl killed when the storm tore apart her elementary ...
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Google Europe and How Antitrust Is Like Football
David Balto is a former policy director of the Federal Trade Commission, attorney-adviser to Chairman Robert Pitofsky, and antitrust lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice. He has been a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and has worked with the International Center on Law and Economics, both of which receive funding from many organizations including Google. Mr. Balto has also ...
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Wolfsburg restore German dominance
Germany's status as the supreme force in European female club football was restored as VfL Wolfsburg beat Olympique Lyonnais 1-0 in the final, a seventh victory in 12 ...
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Rus tops scorers table
Romanian international Laura Rus finished the UEFA Women's Champions League season as 11-goal top scorer despite Apollon Limassol LFC's campaign ending in the last ...
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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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