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UEFA Europa League further strengthened for 2015-18 cycle
The UEFA Executive Committee has approved changes to the access list of the UEFA club competitions for the 2015-18 cycle at its meeting in London this week.The UEFA Europa League winners will be granted access to the play-offs of the subsequent UEFA Champions League season. The UEFA Europa League winners could even gain direct access to the group stage, should the UEFA Champions League ...
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Under-19 elite round day two
The qualifying round, played in autumn, is made up of 12 groups of four teams playing in one-venue mini-tournaments. The top two from each progress alongside the third-placed team with the best record against the top pair in their ...
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Congress adopts anti-racism resolution
UEFA and its member national associations have issued a resolution underlining European football's commitment to combat racism at the XXXVII Ordinary UEFA Congress in ...
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EURO reflected key football values
UEFA EURO 2012 was a positive advert for football, UEFA President Michel Platini and the UEFA Executive Committee said in their report to the XXXVII Ordinary UEFA ...
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On the move and forward-looking
FA marks 150 years In his address to the XXXVII Ordinary UEFA Congress in London, Mr Platini also praised Europe's national associations for their crucial contribution in nurturing the European game. "I think we can say that we are a confederation which is moving forwards at a good pace, and which is moving in the right direction," he said.Mr Platini expressed his pleasure at ...
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Luxury brands position for U.S. boom as China flags Europe sags
A Hermes bag is seen in this file photo. Luxury retailers are preparing for a resurgence in the U.S. market as affluent consumers prepare to spend again. (Fred Lum/The Globe and ...
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Such Nice Boys The Lessons of Germanys New Football Dominance
With the all-German Champions League final coming up, fans around the world are marveling at the rise of the country's football might. Successful reforms within the training system have created a new breed of German player who is more tender than his tank-like ...
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Stockholm Riots Swedens Urban Underclass Demands Attention
It hasn't taken long for such images to seem almost normal: In the Stockholm suburb of Husby, six cars stood in flames as some 400 people looked on when the fire department arrived to extinguish the fires on Thursday. "We are receiving reports that there are a lot of people there," a police spokesman told news agency TT as the situation ...
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UK spy services under scrutiny over death
Security services in Britain are under pressure to explain how two suspected Islamist fanatics, suspected of hacking a soldier to death, went ...
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Berlusconis alleged call-girl I lied
The alleged call-girl at the centre of a trial against Silvio Berlusconi told a courtroom she had previously lied to investigators about raunchy parties hosted by the billionaire tycoon."I am sorry I talked rubbish when I spoke to prosecutors," Karima El-Mahroug, a dancer nicknamed "Ruby the Heart Stealer", said at a separate trial against three friends of Berlusconi's ...
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European Union Bring on the opposition
Many reproach the EU for its poor transparency and democratic deficit. The problem, however, lies elsewhere, believes sociologist Armin Nassehi. What is lacking is a true opposition, transnational and firmly at home within the European Union ...
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Soul searching in Sweden Egalitarianism isn’t what it used to be
According to a study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Sweden is no longer the egalitarian society it once was. The rich are getting richer and the number of poor is growing, even if they are not as poor as before. This surprising change may not be negative, says Swedish daily ...
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Ilham Aliyev meets European Parliament official
Azerbaijani President has today received Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament Elmar Brok. Emphasizing successful development of cooperation between Azerbaijan and European institutions and achievement of good results, Azerbaijani president noted the importance of identifying opportunities to expand partner relations, 1news.az reports quoting official website ...
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Assad Regime Agrees To Attend Peace Conference Russia Says
Representatives of President Bashar Assad's regime have agreed "in principle" to attend an international peace conference aimed at ending more ...
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Azerbaijan one of first countries receiving state support to host Euro-2020
London is hosting the 37th Ordinary UEFA Congress in which Azerbaijan is represented by AFFA General Secretary Elkhan Mammadov. During the visit to the British capital, Mammadov met with UEFA Secretary General Gianni Infantino and Director of the Committee of National Associations Theodore Teodoris, 1news.az reports citing the website of AFFA. On the instructions of AFFA President Rovnag ...
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Russia Serbia sign strategic partnership declaration
MOSCOW, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and Serbia have signed a declaration of strategic partnership in all spheres, including politics, trade, economy, culture, science, technology, and ...
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Russia to finance construction of hospitalsschools in Dniester Reg
In the plans is the construction of new buildings of the republic's maternity centre, the central clinic, the tuberculosis treatment clinic in Bendery and a new tuberculosis treatment centre in Rybnita. Agreements were also signed to build schools in Tiraspol. Bendery, Rybnita and the village of Tashlyk and new kindergartens in Rybnita and ...
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Agreements on missile defense unlikely at Russia-US talks
SOCHI, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and the US are preparing a number of decisions for the Putin-Obama talks due in Northern Ireland on June 17-18, but there are no agreements on missile defense among them, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov has ...
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US president to pay visit to Russia before G20 September summit
SOCHI, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - President of the United States Barack Obama will pay a visit to Russia before September 5, Russian president’s aide Yuri Ushakov told journalists on ...
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Russia’s NIS GLONASS India’s TechMahindra sign cooperation agreement
NEW DELHI, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s JSC Navigation Information Systems (NIS GLONASS) has signed an agreement on cooperation in the sphere of navigation with India’s ...
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Two men arrested after RAF jet scrambled to escort Manchester flight
Rob Williams - 24 May 2013 TWO men were arrested at Stansted Airport on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft today after an RAF Typhoon jet was scrambled to escort a passenger plane travelling ...
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Exiled Islamist cleric who taught UK knifeman praises courage
Dominic Evans - 24 May 2013 A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the attackers accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a ...
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Woolwich attack why was suspect Michael Adebolajo free to kill
Michael Adebolajo, 28, was the man videoed by witnesses with his hands red with blood following the killing of the soldier, who was named as Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, the father of a two-year-old son.The second suspect was last night identified by The Times as Michael Adebowale, 22, from Greenwich. His flat was reported to have been raided by ...
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Stockholm riots Clashes grip suburbs as violence flares for fifth night
The scene of Sweden's worst riots in years, Husby is on the surface at least a typically neat suburb of colorful playgrounds, manicured parks and low rise apartment buildings. Riots that began in Husby have spread across Stockholm over the last four nights in scenes reminiscent of London in 2011 and Paris in 2005 - outbursts with their roots in segregation, neglect and poverty. ...
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I saw it on tv and my heart stopped - I knew my son Lee was in that area
Rob Williams - 24 May 2013 THE father of Lee Rigby, the soldier killed in a knife and machete attack in London, has today paid an emotional tribute to ...
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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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