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- HIV-Affected Families in Malawi Benefit from Raising Fish
Many people with HIV/AIDS in Malawi are getting more protein these days and as a result are healthier. They're getting it from fish, through a project funded by the European Union. An international humanitarian aid organization, WorldFish Center, runs
- Swiss gamble on Muller
Swiss national football coach Jakob 'Kobi' Kuhn said he was taking a gamble by including defender Patrick Muller in his initial Euro 2008 squad released on Tuesday. The Lyon back is a key member of the Euro 2008 co-hosts' defence but he approaches next
- Three Universities Bringing Holocaust Oratorio to Europe
HOLOCAUST ORATORIO EUROPE MN MUSIC NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Description Singers, instrumentalists and faculty soloists from St. Cloud State University, the College of Saint Benedict, Saint John's
- Europe may allow U.S. chicken imports
Europe has had a ban on U.S. poultry imports for 11 years, but the ban could soon be lifted. Americans wash the birds with chlorine to keep the product bug-free. Stephen Beard reports on why that is no longer an issue. Foraging chickens (iStockphoto)
- Algeria Eyes Solar Energy Exports To Europe
By Natalie Obiko Pearson Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES ALGIERS, Algeria (Dow Jones)--An Algerian state-controlled power company is erecting a forest of billboard-sized mirrors in the middle of the desert in the country's first large-scale attempt to harvest
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- BioPower Firm to Buy Fraser's Berlin, NH Mill Site
- Laidlaw Energy Group, Inc., through its affiliate, Laidlaw Berlin BioPower, LLC (Laidlaw), announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with North American Dismantling Corp. (NADC) to acquire the assets comprising the former Fraser Papers
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- British queen makes Myanmar donation
(AFP)
 AFP - Queen Elizabeth II has made a "significant" personal donation to the Myanmar relief effort, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday, as the first British relief flight headed to the cyclone-ravaged country.
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- Burundi media worker killed
'Our thoughts are with Ndikumana's family, to whom justice must be rendered, and with Minani and those close to him, who must be traumatised,' said the Paris-based Raporters Without Borders. 'Letting killers go unpunished just encourages more violence.
- Charges laid after Vietnamese man scammed in Norway
A 32-year-old Frenchman is set to stand trial in a lower court near Oslo next week on charges that he cheated a gullible Vietnamese man out of 180,000 kroner ($35,300) earlier this year, local daily Romerikes Blad reported on its website. The victim of
- Algeria, France to sign a military deal-minister
ALGIERS, May 12 (Reuters) - Algeria and France will sign two accords on military and civil nuclear energy cooperation, Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci said on Monday. Medelci, speaking after talks with visiting French counterpart Bernard
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- Charges laid after Vietnamese man scammed in Norway
A 32-year-old Frenchman is set to stand trial in a lower court near Oslo next week on charges that he cheated a gullible Vietnamese man out of 180,000 kroner ($35,300) earlier this year, local daily Romerikes Blad reported on its website. The victim of
- Reports: Acquittals overturn in Vatican Radio case
(AP)
AP - Italy's top criminal court overturned the acquittals of a Vatican cardinal and another top churchman accused of environmental pollution involving a Vatican Radio transmission tower near Rome, news reports said Tuesday night.
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- Hungary's Minority Government Survives First Vote
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's minority Socialist government survived its first parliamentary vote on Tuesday with the support of its former coalition partner, which quit the government at the end of April. The motion, to name new ministers to replace
- MOL denies underhand tactics used
Shareholders told before meeting they could not vote without original docs MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas last Tuesday denied allegations printed by British daily The Financial Times that it had prevented investors from exercising their voting rights at the
- Hungary's New Minority Government Survives Vote Test
BUDAPEST (AFP)--Hungary's new minority Socialist government survived its first major parliamentary test on Tuesday thanks largely to the support of the Liberals, who quit the coalition at the end of last month. Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's ruling
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- Charges laid after Vietnamese man scammed in Norway
A 32-year-old Frenchman is set to stand trial in a lower court near Oslo next week on charges that he cheated a gullible Vietnamese man out of 180,000 kroner ($35,300) earlier this year, local daily Romerikes Blad reported on its website. The victim of
- Reports: Acquittals overturn in Vatican Radio case
(AP)
AP - Italy's top criminal court overturned the acquittals of a Vatican cardinal and another top churchman accused of environmental pollution involving a Vatican Radio transmission tower near Rome, news reports said Tuesday night.
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- builds on first quarter success with Poland merger approval
AEGON, the life insurance and pensions company, has reported a nine per cent rise in underlying earnings before tax in its first quarter 2008 report. The report shows that operating earnings and net income has been affected by the recent instability of
- Value in East Europe 'junket', say MPs
It was derided as a junket, but MPs on the controversial Speaker's trip to Eastern Europe yesterday defended their two-week sojourn as being worthwhile for New Zealand. Last month Speaker Margaret Wilson was accompanied on a tour of Poland, the Czech
- Poland says US shield offer not yet acceptable
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland said on Tuesday recent U.S. proposals to strengthen Polish defenses in return for hosting a controversial American missile shield fell short of its demands. Washington wants to install 10 land-based interceptors in Poland as
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- Bush sends nuke treaty to Congress
WASHINGTON, May 13 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush Tuesday formally sent to Congress a proposed agreement on nuclear energy cooperation with Russia, the White House said. 'The proposed agreement provides a comprehensive framework for peaceful nuclear
- 2 expelled U.S. envoys visited Russian military plant
The two American military attachés who were expelled from Russia early this month, days ahead of the Victory Day martial parade on Red Square, had made an uninvited visit to a military aviation factory in Siberia that Russia regards as strategic, several American officials said.
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when the original von Trapp family villa near Salzburg opens as
a hotel in July.
AP - Pakistan's government agreed to let judges consider advice from Islamic scholars in court cases in parts of the volatile tribal regions of the northwest, officials said Tuesday.
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