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Rus tops scorers table
Romanian international Laura Rus finished the UEFA Women's Champions League season as 11-goal top scorer despite Apollon Limassol LFC's campaign ending in the last ...
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Pohlers profiles Wolfsburg squad
The goalkeeper is "small but feisty", they have a "crazy" defender and a "sprinter" with "pure muscle" going forward. Conny Pohlers gives UEFA.com her guide to champions VfL ...
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France says dropping idea of cap on executive pay
Reuters © France's Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici reacts as he visits a leather goods maker during a one-day visit focused on employment in rural areas at Avoudrey, eastern France, May 3, 2013. REUTERS/Charles ...
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News Analysis British Leader David Cameron Faces Rebellion in His Party
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UK attacker attended banned Islamist group
Anjem Choudary - ex-leader of the Al-Muhajiroun group - says the man with a bloodied meat cleaver at the site of Wednesday's murder was called ...
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Stockholm braces for more riots
Stockholm police have called in reinforcements, with the Swedish capital bracing for a fifth night of riots in its immigrant-dominated suburbs. The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 per cent of the population. Many of the immigrants who have ...
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Germany to Provide Technical Assistance to Portugal
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Germany is to provide technical assistance to Portugal to help it emerge from its debt crisis and boost economic growth, the finance ministers from the two countries agreed Wednesday. The state-owned German development bank, the Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW), is to provide the know-how needed to create a new Portuguese financial development institution, ...
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Police make 2 new arrests in London soldier killing
British police investigating the brutal murder of a soldier by suspected Islamists in London said on Thursday they had arrested two alleged ...
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‘No chance of surviving’ Russia to evacuate drifting polar research station
Science An evacuation of the North Pole 40 (SP-40) research station drifting on an ice floe near Canada has been ordered by the Russian Natural Resources Ministry. There are fears the situation could become an emergency amid rapidly declining Arctic ice coverage. Not only does the break-up of ice pose a threat to the SP-40 station, it could also cause environmental pollution in the area, ...
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Europes stance on Hezbollah hardens
The attitude towards Hezbollah in Europe is changing markedly. In part, this is a response to the growing body of evidence from investigations in Bulgaria and Cyprus that indicate Hezbollah's role in carrying out or planning attacks. But equally it reflects a growing frustration with the Lebanese Shia grouping following its decision to intervene in Syria's civil war on the side of ...
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European Hotel Managers Association elects new president
MILAN, Italy (eTN) - Hans Koch was elected as the new President of the European Hotel Managers Association (EHMA) and will run the office for the next 3 years from 2103 to 2105. Mr. Koch was elected during the 40th General Meeting of EHMA at the Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milan, at the conclusion of a series of seminars and celebrations for EHAM's 40th anniversary. The new Executive ...
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Rioting raises questions about Swedens liberal immigration policy and its inequality
FILE - In this May 21, 2013 file photo, firemen extinguish a burning car in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night. Immigrant youth in sleepy suburban communities run amok, hurling rocks at police and torching cars, restaurants and culture centers. It isn't France or Britain, but Sweden _ a Scandinavian ...
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Turkish FM calls for joint stance against Syrian regime
Davutoglu said international community should act to stop regime's 'brutal methods' BERLIN - Turkish foreign minister has has called on the international community to 'define a joint stance' against Syria's Assad regime."It is high time for the international community to define a joint stance against a regime that uses every brutal method on its own ...
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Peng Oprandi win quarterfinals at Brussels Open
Peng Shuai and Romina Oprandi posted quarterfinal wins but two other matches were rained out Thursday at the WTA's Brussels Open. Peng, the No. 8 seed, defeated fourth-seeded Sloane Stephens 6-2, 6-3 in 69 minutes. Peng had four breaks in the first set, when Stephens managed just eight points in four games serving and two more in the second. Oprandi was a 6-3, 3-4, 6-0 winner ...
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Kingston has first-day lead on European Tour
James Kingston shot a 6-under-par 66 and owns the lead after Thursday's play at the European Tour's BMW PGA Championship in England. Kingston had seven birdies and a bogey on the day and is one stroke ahead ...
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Germanys leading indicator rises
Germany's leading economic indicators rose in March, climbing for the fourth consecutive month, the Conference Board said Thursday. Five of seven component indexes that make up the leading index rose in the month, pointing to "strengths among the leading indicators (that were) very widespread," the Conference Board said. The leading index for March rose 0.3 percent to 103.9. ...
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Germany worlds most popular country
GERMANY is the most popular country in the world, despite well-publicised protests against its insistence on austerity measures within the European Union, an annual poll for the BBC World Service reveals. More than 26,000 people from around the world were asked to rate 16 countries on whether their global influence was "mainly positive" or "mainly negative". Some 59 per cent of ...
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RPT-Moodys affirms Switzerlands Aaa rating outlook stable
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UPDATE 1-ECB cant solve euro zone crisis alone -Weidmann
Thu May 23, 2013 4:31pm EDT (Adds further Weidmann comments) By Ingrid Melander PARIS May 23 (Reuters) - Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said on Thursday it was not up to the European Central Bank to solve the euro zone crisis, resisting pressure from other ECB policymakers for the bank to widen its range of policy tools. Speaking in Paris, Weidmann declined to comment on U.S. Federal Reserve ...
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Kenyan Cooperation with ICC Questioned
An April 2011 Combination picture shows Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta, who was finance minister, and William Ruto, former Higher Education Minister at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The ...
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Obama Renews Pledge to Close Guantanamo Prison
In a speech addressing U.S. national security and counter-terrorism strategy, U.S. President Barack Obama announced additional steps to reaffirm his pledge to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He said Guantanamo "has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law." In a speech Thursday at the National Defense University in ...
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Turkish bill would prohibit advertisement of alcohol
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish lawmakers on Thursday began debating a bill that bans all alcohol advertising and tightens restrictions on sales of such beverages — a proposal the government insists is aimed at protecting the young from the ills of spirits but which secularists say is an example of the Islamic-based ruling party's encroachment on personal freedoms.The proposal ...
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European Tour CEO adds to golfer Garcias race row with faux pas
Sergio Garcia, centre, emerges from a meeting with George O'Grady, left, after which the latter was criticised for not taking any action on the golfer for his comments on fellow player Tiger Woods. Andrew Redington / Getty ...
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Womens Day at the UEFA Champions Festival
Women's final ambassador Faye White and former Germany defender Steffi Jones passed on their knowledge to aspiring players on day one of the UEFA Champions ...
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UEFA Congress in London
Representatives from UEFA's 53 full member national associations gather in London on Friday for the XXXVII Ordinary UEFA Congress- Europe's football ...
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Italy heavily involved in multi billion euro South Stream project
Italy’s natural gas company ENI is a major investor in the South Stream natural gas pipeline project, but the infrastructure development is being held up by a number of trans-national issues, which the Italian government believes is detrimental to the country’s energy security.
South Stream is the name of the transit pipeline that is intended to transport natural gas from Russia to Southern Europe, bypassing Belarus and the Ukraine. It has been highlighted by Prime Minister Berlusconi as important for the energy needs of Italy as it will eliminate the so-called ‘middle man’ and enhance the security of our energy supply, an issue that was underscored in 2005 when ongoing business disputes between Russia and the Ukraine spilled over into trans-national political issues. Read more
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