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Tahiti coach Its impossible to beat Spain
RIO DE JANEIRO - You'll never hear another coach talk as frankly as Tahiti's Eddy Etaeta, acknowledging in public what everyone knows.He says it's "impossible" his team of amateurs will defeat World Cup champion Spain on Thursday in the Confederations Cup, a mismatch if ever there was one.The coach went a step farther. Spain could score 15 or 20 goals against his South ...
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Video Russia not sold on idea of nuclear warhead reduction
Russia and congressional Republicans are not yet sold on President Obama's proposal to cut America's nuclear arsenal by a third if Russia does the same. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he won't reduce his arsenal without concessions from the U.S. on missile defense systems. Major Garrett ...
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If Spain Score 20 Well Be Happy With One-Tahiti Coach
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Flooding Damages Lourdes French Holy Site
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China and Russia’s Human Trafficking Leads to Sanctions
Playing cards showing details of missing children are displayed in 2007 in Beijing, China. The cards showing photographs and information of 27 missing children were created by Shen Hao, the founder of a missing persons website to be handed out in areas notorious for child trafficking. China has just been put on a list of countries of serious concern for human trafficking. (China Photos/Getty ...
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Assange says WikiLeaks helping Snowden
Julian Assange says he's been in touch with Edward Snowden's representatives to discuss a potential attempt at securing asylum for him in Iceland. ...
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WATCH Escaped bull wrestled by pedestrians in Malaga Spain
A runaway bull has been wrestled to the ground in the streets of Malaga, Spain, following a surprise urban rampage that left cars damaged and pedestrians ...
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Iran Has No Plan to Sell Crude Oil to Russia
Iranian Oil Ministry spokesman Alireza Nikzad-Rahbar has said Iran has not been in talks with Russia for the sale of crude oil to its northern neighbour, ISNA reported. Referring to some news which has been published by some media outlets, Nikzad-Rahbar said that there is basically no infrastructure for transferring crude oil from southern Iran to the Caspian Sea. On Tuesday, the Mehr ...
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An Italian Saint in the Making or a Collaborator With Nazis
He has been called the Italian Schindler, credited with helping to save 5,000 Jews during the Holocaust. Giovanni Palatucci, a wartime police official, has been honored in Israel, in New York and in Italy, where squares and promenades have been named in his honor, and in the Vatican, where Pope John Paul II declared him a martyr, a step toward potential sainthood. But at the United ...
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Russia-linked Firm Develops Video App to Help Solve Crime in US
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – The US affiliate of a Russian software company has developed a database for the city of Baltimore that would help its police department track down private surveillance video that could solve crimes, an executive from EastBanc Technologies’ (EBT) Washington office said Wednesday. "We’ve almost completed development of a database ...
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EU Parliament Chief Negotiator Backs 7-Year Budget Cut for Bloc
The European Parliament's chief budget negotiator accepted a lower seven-year spending ceiling demanded by government heads in return for a mid-term review, setting the stage for a push to win the full assembly's support. Alain Lamassoure, a French member of the European Union legislature, accepted a proposal by national leaders in February to fix the EU's budget for ...
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US condemns China Russia and Uzbekistan for human trafficking
Uzbeks work in fields outside Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which has been criticised for 'subjecting its citizens to forced labour'. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/AFP/Getty ...
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Switzerland of Ohio schools making staff cuts implementing pay to play
Some parents with children in the Switzerland of Ohio School District will have to pay hundreds of dollars if they want their kids to play sports this fall. The fee is just one part of major changes school officials made when taxpayers voted down a levy to help fund the district. Officials said $2.5 million has been cut from the district's budget, forcing some very tough decisions. Over the ...
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Russia could stand in way of Obamas nuclear plan
By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe that's in no mood to ...
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European Intelligence Agencies Not Surprised by NSA Surveillance
President Obama has appeared on the defensive when talking about recently revealed NSA surveillance programs as he tours Europe. But investigative ...
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France ring changes for All Blacks Test
France have changed more than half their starting side as they look to avoid a series whitewash in the third and final rugby Test against the All Blacks in New Plymouth.Two of the changes have been forced, with the experienced pair of five-eighth Frederic Michalak and No.8 Louis Picamoles picking up tour-ending injuries in the 30-0 second Test defeat in Christchurch.Their replacements are Remi ...
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Tour de France Alberto Contador to lead Saxo-Tinkoffs team
France Two-time champion Alberto Contador will be joined by Australia's Michael Rogers in the Saxo-Tinkoff team at the Tour de France.The Spaniard was champion in 2007 and 2009 but was stripped of a third victory in 2010 because of a doping violation.Great Britain's Chris Froome, runner-up behind Bradley Wiggins last year and one of the favourites this time round, has claimed ...
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US Scrambles to Keep Afghan Taliban Plan on Track Russia Backs Karzai
WASHINGTON, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – The United States scrambled Wednesday to salvage plans to bring the Taliban into Afghan peace talks while Russia threw its support squarely behind President Hamid Karzai after he angrily cancelled crucial security talks with Washington. Speaking at a news conference in Germany, President Barack Obama acknowledged early "friction" in the US ...
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Obama Nuclear Arms Pitch More About Legacy Than Russia – Analysts
WASHINGTON, June 19 (By Carl Schreck for RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama’s desire to pursue nuclear arms cuts with Russia offers fertile ground for cooperation with Moscow but is above all about securing an enduring security legacy, a range of experts said Wednesday. "The nuclear issue itself is a special interest of Obama’s – he’s deeply passionate ...
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Body of Todashev Shot During Questioning in US Flown to Russia
the Boston Marathon bombing , was flown to Moscow on Wednesday. "We are already in Moscow," said Todashev’s father Abdulbaki, who accompanied the coffin on a flight from the United States. "Tomorrow I intend to take my son’s body to Grozny on a passenger plane," he said, adding that he would press for a post-mortem examination in Russia. Todashev, 27, was shot ...
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EU strikes deal on long-term budget but approval in doubt
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Negotiators reached a provisional deal on Wednesday to finalise the European Union's 960 billion euro (824 billion pounds) long-term budget, but ratification of the deal was immediately thrown into doubt by a leading socialist lawmaker in the talks. The deal between representatives of EU member states and the European Parliament on a seven-year spending package needs ...
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EU fines drugs firms 150 mn euros for delaying cheap generics
The EU executive on Wednesday imposed hefty fines of around 150 million euros on pharmaceutical firms including Denmark's Lundbeck for colluding to delay the sale a decade ago of a cheap generic version of a widely sold anti-depressant. Lundbeck was fined 93.8 million euros by the European Commission for striking a 2002 agreement with producers of generic drugs to delay the introduction on ...
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Obamas call for nuke negotiations with Russia suggests a slow road to new reductions
WASHINGTON - By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for co-operation from a former Cold War foe in no mood to agree. Relations between Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are tense, reflecting U.S. concerns about human rights abuses in Russia, the two leaders' disagreement ...
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Two arrested after €150k drugs seizure in Cork
Two men have been arrested following a drugs seizure in Co Cork.Garda stopped and searched a car close to an area known as Halfway in Ballinhassig outside of Cork city earlier today and recovered 25kg of cannabis resin with an estimated street value of EUR150,000.The two occupants of the car, a local man in his early 40's and a man in his 30's from Dublin, were arrested at the scene. ...
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Minnesota to open trade office in Dusseldorf Germany
The state of Minnesota will open a new foreign trade office in the Dusseldorf, Germany, to promote exports and foreign investments in the state, Katie Clark Sieben, the state commissioner of employment and economic development, announced Wednesday. Clark Sieben and Gov. Mark Dayton revealed the location during a conference call with Minnesota reporters from Berlin, where they are wrapping up a ...
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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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