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Briton arrested in France over deaths of his two children say reports
A British man has been arrested after two children were found with their throats cut, and he was seen fleeing on rollerskates from his flat on the outskirts of Lyon, France, according to reports.The bodies of the children, a girl aged five and her brother, 10, were found on Saturday in their father's second-floor flat at Saint-Priest, a south-eastern suburb of the city.The man, who is ...
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European Internet Users Urge Regulators to Rein in Google on Privacy Concerns
LONDON, May 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet users have instructed lawyers to press European internet regulators to take robust action to address Google's repeated privacy breaches once and for all and to ensure Google complies with European laws in the future. London-based law firm Olswang has written to the regulators, setting set out the concerns of consumers about Google's ...
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Briton arrested after childrens throats slit in France
The Foreign Office said today it is 'urgently' investigating reports that a British Man is being questioned on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two ...
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France must lead breakuup of euro
LONDON - France played a decisive role in shaping not only the euro system but the entire European project. This history has predisposed French leaders to the goal of preserving the euro at all costs. Those costs, as we explained in Part 1 of this article, have become quite insupportable. A new strategy is needed, and France’s role in shaping it will once again be pivotal. France sits on ...
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SPL Wrap St Johnstone snatch European place as Inverness lose
Inverness started the day in third place, knowing three points at Victoria Park would secure their first-ever UEFA Europa League spot going into their clash with Ross ...
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Turkish deputy pm Babacan pushed the button for paying off the debt to IMF
Turkish deputy pm Babacan pushed the button for paying off the debt to IMF ANKARA - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan pushed the button for paying off the last installment of its debt to International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday, and Turkey additionally committed IMF to extend USD 5 billion loan.The last instalment of Turkey`s debt to IMF was transferred by Babacan and the ...
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Washington getting ready to host Turkish PM Erdogan
Syria issue will be the main agenda of Turkish Premier Erdogan`s meetings in the US WASHINGTON - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a two-day formal visit to Washington, beginning on Tuesday. "We are looking forward to Erdogan`s official visit", a White House official told AA on Tuesday.Erdogan, to be accompanied by his spouse Emine Erdogan, Deputy Prime Minister ...
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Turkish dailies covered claims over twin bombings in Reyhanlideath of a young Fenerbahce fan at Galatasaray d…
Turkish dailies covered claims over twin bombings in Reyhanli,death of a young Fenerbahce fan at Galatasaray derby,military plane crash in Osmaniye and end of Turkey`s debt of IMF ANKARA - Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.All of the dailies covered the claims over the twin bombings in the southern border town of Reyhanli, killing 50 people and ...
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Germany struggles to defend its reputation
By Andy Eckardt and Carlo Angerer, NBC News BERLIN – Germans are world-famous for their efficiency, a stereotype both mocked and admired by their economically ailing European neighbors.But this hard-won reputation is now under threat after a catalog of calamities affecting major construction projects.Perhaps worst of all is what should already be the main airport for the capital, Berlin, ...
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Russian film director Alexei Balabanov dies at 54
Alexei Balabanov, a prominent Russian film director in the 1990s and 2000s, has died in a village near St. Petersburg, a colleague said. He was 54. No information about the cause of his death was released, The Hollywood Reporter said. Balabanov made his first film, "Happy Days," in 1991. His breakthrough film, the 1997 crime drama "Brother," won the main prize at ...
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Boy not killedIsrael Government Review France 2 Al-Durrah Report
Contrary to the report's claim that the boy is killed, the committee's review of the raw footage showed that in the final scenes, which were not broadcast by France 2, the boy is seen to be alive. [For a copy of the complete report: http://bit.ly/15YM5zS ] Publication of the Report of the Government Review Committee Regarding the France 2 Al-Durrah Report, its Consequences and ...
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Syrian TV Troops Enter Rebel Stronghold of Qusair
Syrian state television says government troops have entered the rebel town of Qusair as part of a weeks-long offensive to recapture the strategic area connecting Damascus to the Mediterranean ...
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Mice return from a month in space
Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, said it was the first time that animals had spent so much time in space on their ...
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EU Appeals to Russia Not to Introduce Gay Propaganda Law
BRUSSELS, May 19 (RIA Novosti) – The European Union appealed to Russia on Sunday not to introduce a law banning so-called "gay propaganda," the EU said. Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, intends to pass a law by the end of the current session (mid-July) banning dissemination of information among minors promoting homosexuality. Amendments will be made on ...
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Riverside Museum wins European award
Glasgow's Riverside Museum has been named European Museum of the Year (EMYA) at a ceremony in Belgium. The prestigious award is presented to museums which have been built or extensively refurbished within the previous three years. The 74m Riverside Museum, on the banks of the River Clyde, opened in June 2011 and showcase the city's transport, shipbuilding and engineering heritage. ...
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Analysis Airline emissions deal may not come before EU deadline
(Reuters) - Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war over the European Union's emissions trading ...
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Australias got the vision Europe
No, that's cool, we're not in Europe, we get it.But excuse us for feeling a little jealous when we see all that pageantry and - when it comes to the voting - b*stardry, and we can't have a piece of it.We reckon we could mix it with some of Europe's "finest" musical acts.Surely with Australia's Got Talent, Australian Idol, The X Factor and The Voice Australia we ...
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Cannes Russias Glavkino Backs Pyotr Buslovs Flip-Out
Russian Government Sets Admissions Target for Producers Getting Funding Speaking at an event in the Russian pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival hosted ...
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Spain jobless restaurant customers work rather than pay the bill
09/11/2012 16:41 CET People who cannot afford to eat out are being offered an alternative menu by a Spanish restaurant: do an hour’s work rather than pay the bill. In a move echoing similar initiatives elsewhere during the recession, the Troboda in Catalonia caters partly for the long-term unemployed who live below the poverty line. In return for a free meal they give up some time ...
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On Good Friday at about 2 am two Russian bombers and an escort of four fighters had come within 30-40 kilometers of Swedish airspace allegedly practicing mock attacks upon two specific targets in the Stockholm area and Southern Sweden. Wow
Dateline Dalarna, Sweden: Sometimes truly extraordinary events occur, events which impact an entire nation's people, though, the word 'surreal' perhaps fits better than 'extraordinary' in describing events here during the last third of April. Of course, too much has too long been overblown, the strongest of adjectives too frequently employed to mask the weakest of ...
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Islamists Riot in Tunisia After Major Rally is Banned
Radical Islamists in Tunisia have engaged in street battles with police after authorities banned thousands of them from holding an annual conference in the center of the country. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police who deployed heavily in the central town of Kairouan to prevent them from gathering on Sunday. Police responded to the stone throwers by ...
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Bayerns Badstuber set for prolonged sideline spell
FC Bayern Mnchen will be missing Holger Badstuber for a further six months after the Germany defender ruptured a cruciate knee ligament for the second time this ...
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Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting. Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the event, watched by around 125 million people across Europe, with 281 points while German act Cascada was 21st ...
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Pope warns Church against closing in on itself
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned the Catholic Church to not close in on itself at a Mass to mark Pentecost Sunday attended by more than 200,000 people, urging the faithful to be open and present in a new and changing ...
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Plane crashes at Turkish airshow pilot killed
ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey's state-run news agency says a jet has crashed during an airshow in southern Turkey, killing its pilot. The Anadolu Agency says there were no other casualties in Sunday's crash in the southern city of Adana. There was no immediate information on the plane's type. The agency says the airshow was part of public holiday festivities marking the 94th anniversary ...
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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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