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EU sets deadline for bank data sharing
EU leaders have agreed that the automatic sharing of individuals' bank account data, a key measure to prevent tax evasion, should become law across all member states by the end of the year, European Union President Herman Van Rompuy says.At the close of a one-day summit, final conclusions flagged by Van Rompuy at a press conference called on member states to complete adoption of regulation ...
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Soccer-Previous Wembley European CupChampions League finals
By Mike Collett LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Saturday's Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will see the European Cup presented at Wembley for a record-extending seventh time. The old Wembley hosted five finals, in 1963, 1968, 1971, 1978 and 1992. The new stadium hosted the final in 2011. After Wembley, the Heysel Stadium in Brussels has staged five final ...
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Pay your taxes Europe warns multinationals
Starbucks Corp. have been objects of wrath in Europe in recent months for creative accounting methods that appear to allow them to pay as little into the public purse as possible. This week a Senate subcommittee released a blistering report that detailed how Apple used an elaborate web of offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. By keeping profits in other ...
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Reports Paris Hilton has record deal with Cash Money Records
Paris Hilton is recording her second album, Showbiz411.com reported Wednesday. The entertainment news website said Hilton divulged her new business relationship with Cash Money Records while in France for the Cannes Film Festival. The album will feature many hip hop performers such ...
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Europe Pushes to Shed Stigma of Tax Haven With End to Bank Secrecy
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Stockholm riots spread PM slams hooliganism
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt blamed the violence on 'hooliganism' and appealed for calm after the riots spread from northwestern to southern Stockholm. ...
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More courses in English at French universities Storm brews
English at universities, amid a storm of controversy in a nation fiercely protective of its identity. The measure, which would also introduce lessons in other languages as part of a wider bill ...
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Three nights’ rioting in deprived areas of Stockholm shocks placid Sweden
rioting in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that has dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to defuse youth unemployment and resentment of asylum ...
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EU Gets 310 for Handling of Eurozone CrisisSchulz
Tax Evasion Dangerous for Europe: Schulz ) "Angela Merkel will not change the message, which has been a successful one until today in Germany, before the election," he said. But Schulz warned that if the euro zone crisis were to worsen, Germany would not be able to escape its impact. "If the EU goes more-and-more in the direction of a deeper crisis, sooner or later the crisis will ...
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Brutal attack in London blamed on radical Islam
LONDON (AP) -- Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime - shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took them into ...
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Met Museums European paintings galleries will reopen on May 23
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's galleries for its world-renowned collection of European Old Master paintings from the 13th through the early 19th century will reopen on May 23 after an extensive renovation and reinstallation. This is the first major renovation of the galleries since 1951 and the first overall reinstallation of the collection since 1972. Increased in size by almost ...
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Human rights group Migrants face harsher treatment in Europe as economic turmoil stokes bias
FILE - In this March 8, 2013 file photo, a Syrian refugee tries to put out a fire as black smoke rises in the sky over the Zaatari refugee camp in northeast Jordan. A report on human rights issued by Amnesty International on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, the London Based human rights group said worldwide indifference to the plight of political and economic refugees is making the world a much more ...
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The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession Spain France Italy Finland Netherlands Portugal Cyprus Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German govern
The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession: Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German government of Angela Merkel is sinking Europe. Eurostat data was released on Wednesday (15th) and are relative to GDP in the euro area in the first ...
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British PM London Killing Appears to be Terrorism
British Prime Minister David Cameron says the daylight killing of a man on a south London street near an army barracks appears to be a terrorist ...
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Fola Esch seal long-awaited Luxembourger title
CS Fola Esch are celebrating their first Luxembourger title in 73 years thanks to an emphatic derby win against AS Jeunesse Esch which means they have an unassailable four-point ...
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Shakhtar overwhelm Chornomorets in final
FC Shakhtar Donetsk underlined their domestic dominance as a 3-0 win against FC Chornomorets Odesa in the Ukrainian Cup final wrapped up Mircea Lucescu's side's third successive ...
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UEFA Club Financial Control Body adjudicatory chamber announces decisions
The UEFA Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) adjudicatory chamber has met in Nyon, Switzerland, and has taken further decisions with regard to the cases mentioned in media release No. 83 of 21 December 2012: http://uefa.to/17EZkFKEight clubs had been sanctioned by the CFCB due to the presence of significant overdue payables and had to settle payments by 31 March 2013, in order to avoid the ...
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London attackers inspired by Boston
Police investigating the butchering of a man on London's streets have confirmed the arrests of two men, who may have been inspired by the Boston ...
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Woman confronted London terrorists
A mother confronted the two men who hacked to death a man in London, asking them to hand over their weapons and warning them: "It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose", it has been reported.Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, 48, told the Daily Telegraph that one of the attackers said to her that they wanted to start a war in London.The mother-of-two, a cub scout leader from ...
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Two arrested after UK mosque attacks
Following the terror killing of a man on London's streets. two men have been arrested for attacks on mosques, and protesters have thrown bottles at ...
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Polish surgeons complete life-saving face transplant
Polish doctors have pulled off a revolutionary face transplant this week. A 33-year-old who suffered a workplace accident received the life-saving transplant. "It is Poland's first face transplant and also the first in the world done to save the patient's life," Anna Uryga, spokeswoman for the Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology in ...
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Forbes most powerful women list has Germanys Angela Merkel on top
world leaders who control nations with a combined $11.8 trillion GDP and corporations valued at $893 billion collectively. "We've selected women that go beyond the traditional taxonomy of the power elite (political and economic might)," Forbes' Caroline ...
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Germany rolls out red carpet
/enpproperty--> Berlin is "making special arrangements" to welcome Premier Li Keqiang during his upcoming visit to show the European power's determination to deepen strategic relations with the world's second-biggest economy, Shi Mingde, the Chinese ambassador to Germany, told China Daily before Li's visit. Li, who is on his first tour to Europe since taking ...
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People on the move Greek police beat a tortured Turkish woman
I understood that they were swearing at me. The female police officer was holding my hair.One of the male officers punched me in my face.My beating went on for approximately five minutes. Then the guard from the Exarheia police station heard my screams, entered the room and tried to take me away from [them]..I was then transferred again to the Exarheia police station where I spent ...
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Robben Van Persie named in Netherlands squad
Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal has named a strong squad for the upcoming friendlies in Asia, with Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie named alongside the recalled Erik Pieters and John ...
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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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