Europe
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Lee Rigby named as Woolwich victim23 May 2013, 6:28 pm
The UK names the soldier killed in a machete attack on a London street on Wednesday and says two more people have been arrested....
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French ex-leader reveals panda story23 May 2013, 4:49 pm
Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing reveals he was once jumped on by a panda when he dared himself to enter its cage....
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US man sought over Czech murders23 May 2013, 4:34 pm
Czech police are looking for a US man suspected of killing a family of four, including two ukulele musicians, in the southern city of Brno....
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Germany tops BBC country image poll23 May 2013, 3:58 pm
A poll in 25 countries for the BBC World Service suggests Germany is the most favourably viewed country in the world....
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Iceland country profile23 May 2013, 3:45 pm
Provides an overview of Iceland, including key events and facts about this...
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Bombers hit Niger barracks and mine23 May 2013, 3:42 pm
Suicide bombers target a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in north-western Niger leaving at least 20 people dead, officials say....
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Berlusconi prosecutor 'sent bullets'23 May 2013, 3:26 pm
The prosecutor in the trial in which Silvio Berlusconi is accused of paying for underage sex is sent a letter containing bullets, her office says....
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French court questions IMF chief23 May 2013, 3:14 pm
IMF chief Christine Lagarde is grilled by judges in Paris over a big payout to a tycoon when she was French finance minister....
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EU axes plans to ban olive oil jugs23 May 2013, 2:58 pm
The EU drops plans to ban restaurants from using refillable olive oil jugs, after the idea drew criticism from consumers and European leaders....
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Russia to evacuate Arctic station23 May 2013, 2:49 pm
A Russian drifting Arctic research station is to be evacuated because the ice field around it is melting, the environment ministry in Moscow reports....
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Stockholm riots spread around city23 May 2013, 2:43 pm
A fourth night of unprecedented riots in Stockholm sees unrest spread around the city, with a restaurant and up to 40 cars burnt....
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Uefa reveals new drug-testing plans23 May 2013, 2:12 pm
Uefa announces a series of new measures designed to combat the use of performance-enhancing drugs in European football....
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Lagarde's IMF post hangs in balance23 May 2013, 4:23 pm
Two French heads of the IMF in a row in legal scandals of different kinds begins to reflect embarrassingly on their country of origin. Christine… ...
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Trouble with the new 5 euro notes23 May 2013, 4:18 pm
Holiday-makers planning to travel to Greece this summer may be well advised not to take the new five-euro bank notes with them. The new five-euro… ...
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Militants attack French mine and army barracks in Niger23 May 2013, 3:46 pm
Islamist suicide bombers have struck at an army barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger. In Agadez in the north, at least 20 soldiers were… ...
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Anger, debate and fear in the UK after Woolwich attack23 May 2013, 3:22 pm
The murder of a soldier in Woolwich has already sparked a sequence of worrying and violent reactions in the United Kingdom. Hours after the brutal… ...
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Major Nissan recall over steering wheel glitch23 May 2013, 3:17 pm
Nissan has issued a recall for more than 840,000 vehicles worldwide. They are the Micra, which is known as the March in some markets, and their Cube… ...
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Paris: Singer and Piaf songwriter Moustaki dies23 May 2013, 2:53 pm
French singer and songwriter Georges Moustaki has died after a long illness. He was 79. Greek-born Moustaki arrived in Paris in 1951 and will be… ...
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Pussy Riot member denied parole by Russian judge23 May 2013, 2:53 pm
A Russian court has refused to grant parole to a jailed member of the Pussy Riot punk band. According to supporters, the judge ruled against Maria… ...
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Italian students mark anniversary of anti-mafia magistrate killing23 May 2013, 2:53 pm
Thousands of Italian students have sailed to Palermo on so-called "ships of lawfulness" to mark the 21st anniversary of the killing of an anti-mafia… ...
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Flooding forces people from homes in Norway23 May 2013, 2:53 pm
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes after heavy rain caused flooding in southeastern Norway. In Nesbyen, a mudslide reached… ...
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Students protest in Venezuela23 May 2013, 2:42 pm
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Water monitor lizard invades Thai Parliament House23 May 2013, 2:38 pm
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Moore residents return to tornado-ravaged area23 May 2013, 2:38 pm
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INTERVIEW: US Dollar's Long-Term Uptrend Will Pressure Commodities - Newedge23 May 2013, 6:31 pm
(Kitco News) - The U.S. dollar is in a long-term uptrend and the consequences of that mean commodities and countries whose economies depend heavily on commodity production will suffer, said a director of market strategy at a financial services group....
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Fidelity: 401(k) Balances Reach Record Highs23 May 2013, 6:30 pm
Have you checked your 401(k) balance lately? You might be in for a pleasant surprise....
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CEOs are Terrible at Management, Study Finds23 May 2013, 6:29 pm
A new study shows that CEOs are doing a lousy job when it comes to people management. The study, a joint project by the Center for Leadership Development and Research at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Stanford’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance and The Miles Group, a consulting firm in New York that focuses on C-suites and corporate boards, found that both CEOs and boards are overly focused on the bottom line, at the expense of mentoring and engaging their boards. The survey p...
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You Suck, Now Subscribe: Why Bloomberg's Shame-Based Millennial Ad Campaign Misses The Mark23 May 2013, 6:27 pm
While shame-based conditioning might work when it comes to teaching your new rottweiler puppy not to go pee-pee on the hall rug, Bloomberg Businessweek is betting it will also help them recruit a new generation of subscribers. The business news titan unveiled a new ad campaign aimed at Millennials and it's ugly, really ugly....
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Really, Chrysler? Don't Pick A Fight With Tesla Over Taxpayer Loans. You Will Lose.23 May 2013, 6:26 pm
Chrysler Group, which is enjoying a nice rebound in the U.S. market, would be wise to stay focused on the road ahead rather than revisiting the circumstances of its 2009 government bailout....
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Changes The Game For Electronic Arts23 May 2013, 6:23 pm
With much of the gaming world still focused on Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4, there’s a brand new gaming device that is out right now. You don’t have to wait until this fall to experience the next generation of mobile gaming on the Samsung Galaxy S4. There’s a large library of games from top publishers, including Electronic Arts. And many game developers, including the large number that come under EA Mobile, are optimizing games to take advantage of the new functionalit...
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Issa To Force Testimony Of IRS Official Who Took The Fifth-Contempt Of Congress And Court Battle Likely To Follow23 May 2013, 6:22 pm
According to Fox News and Politico, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa has decided that he will recall IRS employee Lois Lerner before his committee and seek to force her to answer questions about the IRS’s practice of targeting political organizations seeking tax exempt status as a 501(c)(4) organization....
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BusinessAviationVoice: Superfluous Luxury Or Tool For Growth?23 May 2013, 6:18 pm
As representatives of business aviation organizations from around the world gathered for a forum at the European Business Aviation Convention (EBACE), the primary discussion hinged around the misconception of business aircraft as an unnecessary luxury versus an essential tool for corporate growth....
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P.M. Kitco Metals Roundup: Solid Gains For Gold On Safe-Haven Demand, Short Covering23 May 2013, 6:13 pm
(Kitco News) - Comex gold futures prices ended the U.S. day session sharply higher Thursday. The “risk-off” trader attitudes in world the market place Thursday prompted good safe-haven demand—something the yellow metal has not experienced in quite some time and an indication the gold bulls are showing resilience. Short covering was also featured Thursday. Comex June gold last traded up $23.30 at $1,390.70 an ounce. Spot gold was last quoted up $22.50 at $1,392.75. July Comex silver last...
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Steven Nissen: The Hidden Agenda Behind The FDA's New Avandia Hearings23 May 2013, 6:13 pm
This post was written by Steven E. Nissen MD, the Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. This commentary expresses his personal opinions and not necessarily the views of the Cleveland Clinic....
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Deconstructing Google's Strategy: Will Google Eat Your Business Next?23 May 2013, 6:12 pm
From the moment I entered Starbucks, the startup founder I’ve been working with seemed anxious. Had locusts destroyed America’s Frappuccino fields...?? I’d never know. Before I could caffeinate he asked, “Did you follow Google’s I/O announcements?” “Do Beliebers follow Justin?” I deadpanned. Unamused, he continued, “I think Google plans to get into our space. They could put us out of business.” As I talked him down from a mild case of Googlephobia, I flashed back to a dozen s...
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St. Louis' Social Media-Driven Saga of Larry Conners and KMOV23 May 2013, 6:09 pm
In the event you're not paying attention to St. Louis media and missed the social media-driven saga of Larry Conners and CBS affiliate KMOV-TV, let's recap....
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Muslim hardliners ID London terror suspect23 May 2013, 6:34 pm
LONDON (AP) — Two Muslim hardliners say the man seen wielding a bloody butcher's knife after the killing of a British soldier is a Muslim convert who took part in demonstrations with the banned radical group al-Muhajiroun....
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British police arrest two more over London attack23 May 2013, 6:17 pm
By Guy Faulconbridge and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested two more people on Thursday in a hunt for accomplices of two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries. The two suspected killers, now under guard in hospitals, had been known to security services before Wednesday's daylight attack, security sources said. Another man and a woman, both aged 29, were detained on suspicion of consp...
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Police arrest two over soldier killing23 May 2013, 5:47 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Police said on Thursday they had arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of conspiracy to murder over the killing of a soldier on the streets of east London. Detectives said they had arrested a man and woman, both aged 29, over the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby who was hacked to death in Woolwich on Wednesday. Two men of Nigerian descent, aged 22 and 28, shot by police at the scene of the killing, have been arrested and are being treated at separate London hospitals. Their condi...
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2 more arrests in London attack investigation23 May 2013, 5:35 pm
LONDON (AP) — British police say two more people have been arrested by officers investigating the hacking death of a U.K. soldier in London....
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Insight - In attacker's argot, Londoners shocked to hear one of their own23 May 2013, 5:25 pm
By Michael Holden and Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - In the lurid scene of the red-handed knifeman describing his motives for hacking to death a British soldier in broad daylight, perhaps the most chilling aspect for Londoners was the man's unmistakably familiar accent. Michael Adebolajo, 28, who was filmed wielding a bloody meat cleaver and butcher's knife as the soldier lay dead on the road behind him, was not a maladjusted immigrant like Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, but...
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Court cancels Ukraine's first gay pride rally23 May 2013, 4:50 pm
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian court on Thursday banned what would have been Ukraine's first-ever gay pride demonstration, upholding a suit by city authorities, who argued the rally would disturb annual Kiev Day celebrations and could spark violence....
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UK attack suspects part of previous investigations23 May 2013, 4:45 pm
LONDON (AP) — Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been part of previous investigations by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London....
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Cameron says London attack was betrayal of Islam23 May 2013, 4:33 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said the brutal killing of a soldier who was hacked to death in London by two men shouting Jihadist slogans was a betrayal of Islam. "We will never give in to terror or terrorism in any of its forms," Cameron told reporters outside his Downing Street residence on Thursday. "This was not just an attack on Britain and on the British way of life, it was also a betrayal of Islam and of the Muslim communities who give so much to our country. There is no...
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Head of radical Islamist group who knew knifeman blames UK foreign policy23 May 2013, 4:33 pm
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - The head of a banned British radical Islamist group who knew one of the men who hacked a soldier to death on London streets said on Thursday British foreign policy was to blame for the attack. Anjem Choudary said Michael Adebolajo - filmed with his hands covered with blood, carrying a meat cleaver and knife after attacking an off-duty soldier in broad daylight - had attended lectures run by al-Muhajiroun, Choudary's organisation, which was banned under anti-t...
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Hands soaked in blood, London knifeman declares his creed on video23 May 2013, 4:33 pm
By Peter Griffiths and Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - A young man with bloodied hands holds a knife and a meat cleaver soaked in blood as he faces the camera to say he has just killed a soldier on a London street in retaliation for the deaths of Muslims killed by British troops in faraway lands. As the man speaks, a woman in a blue skirt pulls a shopping cart down the pavement towards him, glances briefly in the direction of a corpse lying in the road, and walks right past the man, apparentl...
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Cameron says will never give in to terror23 May 2013, 4:33 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday the country would remain resolute in its opposition to terrorism after two men hacked to death a soldier in south London. "This country will be absolutely resolute in its stand against violent extremism and terror," he said, on the steps of his 10 Downing Street residence. "We will never give in to terror or terrorism in any of its forms." (Reporting by Kate Holton)...
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Killing of British soldier stirs tension in poor corner of London23 May 2013, 4:33 pm
By Andrew Osborn and Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - The gory killing of a British soldier at the hands of two suspected Islamist militants has shone a spotlight on Woolwich, the London district where it happened, stirring racial tensions in one of the most ethnically diverse parts of Britain. Tucked away inside a bend of the River Thames to the southeast of central London, Woolwich has changed as quickly as the British capital itself in the last 20 years as successive waves of immigrants attrac...
