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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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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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18 hurt in shuttle bus crash near Atlanta airport
ATLANTA - Authorities say 18 people have been taken to the hospital following a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport.Atlanta Fire Rescue Department spokeswoman Janet Ward says the accident happened around 10:30 a.m. Friday. She says it's not immediately clear what caused the accident.Ward says there were 18 people on the bus at the time of the ...
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US Czech slaying suspect killed relatives
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An American man accused of killing his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic was arrested after fleeing to the United ...
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UK-bound Pakistan plane diverted 2 men arrested
LONDON (AP) -- Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain, officials said. The incident further rattled the U.K. just days after a British soldier was brutally killed on a London street in a suspected terror ...
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Tax shortfall of over €8bn drives up budget deficit says minister
The government will collect over €8bn less in taxes this year than expected, driving the budget deficit up to 3.3%, finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem said after Friday's cabinet meeting. Lower corporate tax, value-added tax and income tax receipts account for the bulk of the shortfall, but the economic downturn has also impacted on taxes on cars and other duties, Dijsselbloem ...
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Jersey shore reopens for 1st post-Sandy summer
New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer ...
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Taliban attack U.N. compound in Kabul
security forces . A plume of smoke hung over the city center after the attack was launched, eight days after six Americans, soldiers and civilians, and nine Afghans were killed in a suicide car bombing in ...
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CORRECTED-New Issue- Lansforsakringar prices 100 mln euro 2016 FRN
Fri May 24, 2013 10:53am EDT (Correction to change Currency from SEK to Euro as per Underwriter) May 24(Reuters) -Following are terms and conditions of an FRN priced on Friday. Borrower Lansforsakringar Bank ...
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British police say investigating incident on plane
By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. actress Amanda Bynes was arrested in New York City on Thursday after she allegedly threw a bong out the window of a midtown Manhattan apartment building, a police official said. New York police received a call on Thursday night from an employee at the 47th Street high-rise building where Bynes lives, said NYPD spokesman Detective Brian Sessa. The ...
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Blasts shooting in center of Afghan capital
KABUL (Reuters) - Several large explosions rocked a busy area in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday with Reuters witnesses describing shooting in the ...
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Default should be option for eurozone nations Bundesbank
PARIS (AFP) - The head of the German central Bundesbank Jens Weidmann said on Friday that eurozone countries should be able to default, a possibility which the EU has gone to great lengths to avoid during the current crisis."In this crisis we have paid great attention to avoid the risks of default" given concerns about contagion to other eurozone states, said Weidmann, an advocate of ...
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Eurozone sees bank union progress by June
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Key obstacles to a banking union, seen as a keystone in locking down the debt crisis, should be resolved within the next few weeks, the official in charge of the day-to-day operation of the eurozone told AFP in an exclusive interview.Thomas Wieser, who heads the working group of the 17-nation eurozone led by Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said the next group meeting ...
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ANALYSIS-German economy to pick up but fall short of traditional pace
* Economists say Q1 disappointed hopes for dynamic recovery * Euro crisis, global slowdown, weak yen hurting exports * Govt hopes firms will start investing, economists doubtful * Weak economy could impact election campaign BERLIN, May 24 (Reuters) - Germany's economy will recover from a bout of ...
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German economy to pick up but slowly
Germany's economy will recover from a bout of winter weakness but fall well short of the dynamic growth rates of previous years as euro zone recession and global slowdown stunt exports and investment. There are homegrown problems too. What hue of government will result from September elections is ...
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FOREX-Euro gains after strong German Ifo yen firms
* Euro gains as better Ifo makes ECB easing less likely * German Ifo business climate survey well above forecasts * Yen stays firm versus dollar after strong gains Thursday By Jessica Mortimer LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - The euro rose against the dollar on Friday after a German business sentiment ...
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Terry McAuliffe’s brother goes from conservative activist to Democrat
Left to right: Joseph McAuliffe, Bill Clinton and Terry McAuliffe. (Facebook.com) Terry McAuliffe, a Democratic operative embroiled in a tight race to become Virginia's next governor, knows a thing or two about conservatives like his Republican opponent, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. That's in part because his older brother, Joseph McAuliffe, spent two decades as a ...
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Exiled cleric who taught UK knifeman praises courage
By Dominic Evans TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - 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 military target. In an interview in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, where he has lived since being banished from Britain ...
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Durable goods orders rise point to factory sector resilience
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rose more than expected in April, a sign of resilience in the factory sector despite belt-tightening in Washington and weakness in overseas ...
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Videos Washington bridge collapse survivor You hold on
Zoom In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, rescue workers form a human chain as they begin to remove a woman who reaches out from a smashed pickup truck that fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridgeThursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco ...
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Europes Largest Economy Picking Up Steam
German business morale rose far more than expected in May, rebounding after two consecutive falls and suggesting Europe's largest economy is picking up steam after posting anaemic growth in the first quarter. The Munich-based Ifo think tank said on Friday its business climate index, based on a monthly survey of some 7,000 firms, rose to 105.7 in May from 104.4 in April. That compared with a ...
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Strong earthquake hits Russias Far East
Russian Academy of Sciences , told The Associated Press the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered 8.0 on the Richter scale. ...
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New Issue-NordLB prices 200 mln euro 2021 bond
Fri May 24, 2013 6:58am EDT May 24(Reuters) -Following are terms and conditions of a bond priced on Friday. Borrower Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale Issue Amount 200 million ...
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Anti-austerity Keynes never met the euro zone
There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the euro zone's woes. But the spectacularly muddle-headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising. Commentators are consumed by politics, flailing away at any available target, while the "anti-austerity" masses apparently believe that there are easy cyclical solutions to tough structural ...
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New bird flu strain may be capable of spreading from human to human study
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The H7N9 bird flu virus may be capable of spreading from human to human and can be transmitted not only through direct contact but also through airborne exposure, researchers at the University of Hong Kong have ...
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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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