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Terrorist ‘military emir’ killed in Russia’s North Caucasus
Terrorism A key militant leader, described as the right-hand man of the Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, was killed by special operations soldiers in a shootout in the North Caucasus, the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee said. Dzhamaleil Mutaliev, also known by the nickname 'Adam,' was killed in Nazran District of the North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia on Tuesday. Mutaliev ...
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Gazprom squeezes Greece for better terms as sole major bidder for DEPA
Russia Gazprom officials are in Athens for talks on acquiring Greece's public gas distributor DEPA. Gazprom is already DEPA's major supplier and there are concerns the EU could block the deal in an attempt to limit Russia's presence in its energy market. According to local media reports, Gazprom head, Aleksey Miller himself is taking part in the negotiations.Gazprom is trying to ...
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UK drops behind France for credit and debit card fraud for first time
Debit and credit card fraud losses rose 14 percent in the UK last year but that wasn’t enough to stop France deposing it as the top country for plastic crime, analytics ...
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Council of Europe Head Calls for Visa-Free Russia-EU Travel
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - The visa requirement for travel between the European Union (EU) and Russia should be scrapped as soon as possible, Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said Tuesday."My personal opinion is that Greater Europe without visas should be the common European idea," Jagland said in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's ...
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Far-right French historian 78-year-old Dominique Venner commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
John Lichfield has been The Independent's man in Paris since 1997, covering French news. Before that, he was the paper's Foreign Editor and he has also worked in Brussels and ...
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BREAKING Suicide shuts Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
John Lichfield has been The Independent's man in Paris since 1997, covering French news. Before that, he was the paper's Foreign Editor and he has also worked in Brussels and ...
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Lloyd Blankfein is wrong about Europe
The desperate patchwork of fixes for Europe is deluding the best financial minds, including Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein, into believing that the euro is virtually certain to ...
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Europes lost trillion in taxes
Europe misses out on one trillion euros in taxes each year. Little wonder its leaders are stepping up efforts to tackle fraud and aggressive tax ...
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Justin Bieber’s pet monkey to become property of Germany after singer misses deadline
Justin Bieber’s pet monkey Mally is set to become the property of Germany. Customs authority will transfer ownership of the animal to the German state on ...
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Column The European Unions unending quandary
John Lloyd (Reuters) - The pace of European disintegration continues to quicken. Recession deepens in the 17-member euro zone. It is now the longest downturn since the currency was launched in 2000. In Italy, a new left-right government, launched on an anti-austerity program, finds the neighborhood more austere than it had hoped. ...
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European shares stall near peaks await Fed reassurance
news ) falls 0.1 pct * Charts show scope for EuroSTOXX pullback towards 2,745 * Nomura recommends hedge on long equity bets By Toni Vorobyova LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - European shares stalled around multi-year peaks on Tuesday, bolstered by a crop of upbeat corporate reports but pinned back by concerns about a possible end to the U.S. Federal Reserve remains committed to stimulus ...
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European meat traders need to be licensed-French ministers
* Meat traders should be supervised - French ministers * Call for more EU anti-fraud measures * Fading media focus softens will to reach EU meat label deal By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, May 21 (Reuters) - The European Union should introduce a specific licence for meat traders to prevent frauds such as the one that duped Europeans across the bloc into eating horsemeat labelled as beef ...
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EU Aides Say Transaction Tax Design Hurts Sovereign Debt
Government bonds should be excluded from the European Union's planned financial-transaction tax because the levy would drive up sovereign borrowing costs, a panel of European debt-management officials said. Primary issuance, secondary-market trading, related derivatives and repurchase agreements all affect borrowing costs, which would rise unless transactions involving government ...
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Carney Says Europe Could Benefit From Canada Economic Policies
Canada as a model as the continent tries to avoid a "decade of stagnation," Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said in his last scheduled public speech before taking over the Bank of England. "Relative to our peers, Canada is working," Carney, 48, said in the text of a speech he's giving today in Montreal, which will be followed by a press conference. "The ...
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Pope expresses solidarity with tornado survivors
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has expressed his `'closeness to the families of all who died in the Oklahoma tornado," with special concern for `'those who lost young ...
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Europe Markets Europe stocks climb to almost five-year high
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stocks inched higher on Tuesday, with investors cautious about making any major moves before clarification on the U.S. Federal Reserve's potential exit from easing ...
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Russia angry over stolen Eurovision votes
BAKU/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow has clashed with the European Union over human rights and with NATO over security. Now another longstanding European institution is causing anger in the Kremlin and tension between Russia and Azerbaijan: the Eurovision Song ...
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Europes battle against 1 trillion euro tax evasion
10/04/2013 17:48 CET The European Union can’t afford to let tax evasion go on the way it is. That is why EU leaders will meet at a one-day summit in Brussels on Wednesday May 22 to try to negotiate a solution. Potential revenues that escape the net of tax collectors reportedly amount to one trillion euros. Such large amounts of money, currently sitting in tax havens, would be greatly ...
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Spain Germany team up to fight youth employment
Samsung Galaxy S4 versus HTC One: Which is a better buy? The mobile giants step back into the ring for another round, as we referee the fight between ...
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Turkish dailies covered the bomb blasts in the border town of Reyhanli the derby between Turkish football tea…
Turkish dailies covered the bomb blasts in the border town of Reyhanli, the derby between Turkish football teams Galatasaray and Fenerbahce, and the interaction between civillians and retreating PKK terrorists in Tunceli ANKARA - The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.All of the dailies covered the details gathered about the two car bomb blasts in ...
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President of SD in European Parliament Swoboda cancelled his scheduled meeting with Kilicdaroglu.…
President of S&D in European Parliament Swoboda cancelled his scheduled meeting with Kilicdaroglu. BRUSSELS - President of the Social and Democrat Group in the European Parliament Hannes Swoboda has said that the comparison of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad by main opposition Republican People`s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu was ...
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CHP leader Kilicdaroglu in Brussels
Kilicdaroglu meets EU officials in Brussels BRUSSELS - Chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Wednesday met with European Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule and President of the European Parliament (EP) Martin Schulz in Brussels.Kilicdaroglu's separate meetings with Fule and Schulz took place behind closed doors. Wednesday, May 15, ...
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Netherlands seeks continued F-16 training
The Netherlands is seeking to continue training its F-16 pilots in the United States through a $191 million Foreign Military Sales arrangement. The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, in a required notification to Congress, said the package deal sought covers the Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 Formal Training Unit in Arizona, associated equipment, parts, training and logistical ...
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European energy exchanges compete for Turkish growth
ISTANBUL | Tue May 21, 2013 12:30pm EDT ISTANBUL May 21 (Reuters) - European energy exchanges ICE Endex and EEX are competing for a slice of Turkey's booming power market as the country prepares to open its first electricity exchange, executives from the companies said on Tuesday. Turkey, with $60 billion of annual energy imports, is liberalising its energy market and plans to open ...
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Boston Scientific competitor calls the cops to seize illegal stents in Germany
A stent is a tiny mesh tube implanted during an angioplasty procedure improve blood flow. A Hong Kong-based medical device manufacturer thats been accusing Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) of patent infringement since at least 2009 upped the ante last week, seizing more than 190 heart stents from a BSX site in Germany with the help of police. OrbusNeich Medical Inc., which has U.S. offices in ...
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Turkey remains bridge between civilisations in railway plans
Turkey is often described as the gateway between two great civilisations, this is a theme employed commonly in our promotional material to encourage tourism and it has been invoked as part of the rhetoric used in ongoing efforts to join the EU, but the fact remains that Turkey is a key player in the world of geopolitics and this is seen most clearly in two major railway projects currently being planned between three regions of the world.
Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul, is famous for being the only metropolitan region in the world that spans two continents, sitting as it does in both between Asia and Europe. This idiosyncrasy of the city has made it a popular tourist destination due to the diversity of culture and architecture, but on a wider scale, the geopolitical significance of Turkey is growing and will indeed grow further if two major infrastructure plans in the Middle East and Asia take shape in the next few decades. Read more
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