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- Swine flu outbreak rages through Europe
Cancun, Mexico: Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe and the US, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August. The virus is even showing signs of rebounding in Mexico.
- Top Iran cleric says British Embassy staff to go on trial
Brushing aside British and European efforts to seek the release of local British Embassy staff members held in Tehran, the Iranian authorities indicated on Friday that they planned to put some of them on trial - a move that could deepen a crisis in
- 01/07/2009 17.52.28 Sweden Takes Over the EU Presidency
- RV) Sweden takes over the presidency of the European Union. We spoke with EU Commission?s Deputy spokesperson Pia Ahrnekilde-Hansen. She told us more about what the commission hopes to achieve during the next six months?
- Spains rich yield curbs Turkey's cherry exports
tons of cherry to the European markets in May and June, the peak of the cherry season, as Spain enjoyed the richest pickings of high quality cherries in its history. What makes the situation more complicated for the Turkish exporters is that the
- Despite the risk, site is a lure for the desperate
Calais/Afghan migrant refugee with temporary shelter in sand dunes Photograph: Martin Argles In 1999, at the request of the French government, the Red Cross opened the Sangatte camp, close to the Eurotunnel complex, to shelter and feed migrants. A
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- German-made axle broke in Italy disaster, magazine says
Munich - The axle of a railway tanker car which broke and set off a lethal fireball this week in an Italian coastal town was German-made, a news magazine said Friday in Munich. Focus quoted Alberto Chiovelli, head of Italy's railway safety authority
- Merkel party benefits from election law vote
Reuters/Berlin Chancellor Angela Merkel?s conservatives got a boost yesterday when the Bundestag lower house of parliament rejected proposed changes to Germany?s election law just three months before a federal vote. Political scientists say a quirk in
- Honduras police report 42 arrests for defying curfew
TEGUCIGALPA, July 1 (Xinhua) -- At least 42 people have been arrested for defying the nation's curfew, part of martial law that began on Sunday night, police spokesman German Rivera told media on Wednesday. Tegucigalpa police arrested 39 people and
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- Glenn Beck's Dreams of US Destruction
@ 4:42pm What is insane are the views of people like Ms Savan who dismiss the idea that Bin Laden or other terrorist groups might try and come across the Mexican border with some form of WMD. Posted by antisocialist at 07/02/2009 @ 5:03pm Nukes are not
- Assad ready to meet Obama in Syria
LONDON: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he would be willing to meet US President Barack Obama in Syria to discuss Middle East peace efforts, in a British television interview. ?We would like to welcome him in Syria, definitely. I am very clear
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- Bricorama expansion in Spain
The French DIY retailer Bricorama has opened a new store at El Verger in the area around Alicante. With the addition of this outlet, which has a retail area of 3 000 m, the group now has eight DIY stores in Spain. 29 June 2009
- A day for the French Teams at Match Cup Sweden
Quarter final day at Match Cup Sweden, stage 5 of the 2009 World Match Racing Tour brought an early westerly breeze that built throughout the competition. The racing started a little after 10am and by midday the crowds were out in force enjoying the sun
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- Spain jailbreak plan foiled
Reuters/Madrid Spanish police said yesterday that they had foiled an Italian drug trafficker?s plan to break out of jail in the Canary Islands using climbing equipment and a 4m zeppelin.?The plan consisted of using a remotely controlled zeppelin to bring
- German-made axle broke in Italy disaster, magazine says
Munich - The axle of a railway tanker car which broke and set off a lethal fireball this week in an Italian coastal town was German-made, a news magazine said Friday in Munich. Focus quoted Alberto Chiovelli, head of Italy's railway safety authority
- Lula to call for solidarity with poor nations at G8
BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will call on wealthy nations to moderate their demands on poor countries during next week's G8 summit in Italy, a presidential spokesman said Friday. Lula will tell the world's eight largest
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- Developing relations with China is Hungary's priority: FM
BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Developing relations with China is a priority for Hungary, the Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Balazs said here on Friday. The bilateral relations between Hungary and China are good, long-standing, and at a high level, Balazs
- Hungarian multi-manager emerges as market leader
Quantis Investment Management Zrt has become the largest multimanager in eastern Europe after boosting its assets to more than HUF 40 billion (?147 million). ?It gives us great pleasure that, in less than six months after the launch of Quantis' fund
- No pre-election spending spree for Hungary, says premier
Budapest - Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai on Friday promised Hungary would maintain strict fiscal discipline right up to the next general election in 2010. 'I can assure you there will not be an election budget,' Bajnai told local and foreign business
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- Spain jailbreak plan foiled
Reuters/Madrid Spanish police said yesterday that they had foiled an Italian drug trafficker?s plan to break out of jail in the Canary Islands using climbing equipment and a 4m zeppelin.?The plan consisted of using a remotely controlled zeppelin to bring
- German-made axle broke in Italy disaster, magazine says
Munich - The axle of a railway tanker car which broke and set off a lethal fireball this week in an Italian coastal town was German-made, a news magazine said Friday in Munich. Focus quoted Alberto Chiovelli, head of Italy's railway safety authority
- Lula to call for solidarity with poor nations at G8
BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will call on wealthy nations to moderate their demands on poor countries during next week's G8 summit in Italy, a presidential spokesman said Friday. Lula will tell the world's eight largest
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- Advocacy course impresses in Warsaw
Advocacy in international arbitration is not about 'theatrical speeches or convincing the opponent with rhetorical tricks,' students on a recent course in Poland learned. To access this article you will need to buy an online news password. Purchase an
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- No Russia-US arms deal yet
OSCOW: US and Russian negotiators have still not reached agreement on cutting stocks of their deadliest nuclear weapons ahead of President Barack Obama?s first visit to Moscow on Monday, sources close to the talks said. Obama and his Russian counterpart
- ?Russians view US more positively after Obama?
MOSCOW: Russians? attitudes towards the United States have improved significantly since the election of US President Barack Obama, according to a poll released on Friday, ahead of Obama?s trip to Moscow next week. Forty-six per cent of Russians surveyed
- Russia's State Duma approves Russia-China oil co-op agreement
MOSCOW, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament, approved on Friday a Russia-China intergovernmental agreement on oil cooperation, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. The agreement, which envisions long-term Russian oil
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