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Kerry heads to Middle East focus on Syria
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to the Middle East this week to meet with leaders in the area. It is expected that Syria will be a major point of discussion. Shibley Telhami of the Brookings Institute and journalist Rula Jebreal join MSNBC with ...
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International financial news
A ROUNDUP of news in finance, economics and business from around the world: INTERNATIONAL NEWS PARIS - Work on the world's biggest hydroelectric dam will start in October 2015 in the Democratic Republic of Congo after talks between DR Congo and international officials. JERUSALEM - The European Union has postponed plans to introduce separate labelling for products from Israeli settlements in ...
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International financial news
A ROUNDUP of news in finance, economics and business from around the world: INTERNATIONAL NEWS PARIS - Work on the world's biggest hydroelectric dam will start in October 2015 in the Democratic Republic of Congo after talks between DR Congo and international officials. JERUSALEM - The European Union has postponed plans to introduce separate labelling for products from Israeli settlements in ...
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Sweden hammers Switzerland to collect world hockey gold on home ice
Sweden's Loui Eriksson (C) celebrates his goal against Switzerland with teammates Erik Gustafsson and Gabriel Landeskog during their 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship final match at the Globe Arena in Stockholm May 19, 2013. (GRIGORY ...
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Sweden wins world hockey title
Swedish players react after winning the 2013 Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships gold medal match against Switzerland, at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Martti Kainulainen) FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY ...
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China India to make new engine of world economy
/enpproperty--> NEW DELHI - China and India are both willing and able to foster new highlights in cooperation among Asian countries and make new engine of the world economy, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday. "The two countries have the will, wisdom and capability to jointly nurture new bright spots in cooperation among Asian countries, create new engine of the world economy, ...
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Tre Kronor are world hockey kings - Swedes beat Swiss for gold
Henrik Sedin scored twice on Sunday as Sweden won the gold medal at the IIHF World Hockey Championship with a 5-1 victory over Switzerland. Earlier, the United States beat Finland 3-2 in a shootout to win bronze. Erik Gustafsson, Simon Hjalmarsson and Loui Eriksson also scored for Sweden, which became the first country to win the title at home since the Soviet Union in 1986. Roman Josi opened ...
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US Virgin Islands environment head arrested for drug trafficking
A seaside view from St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the head of the three-island U.S. Caribbean territory's environment agency was arrested on drug trafficking charges. (Martinne ...
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Israel demands French TV correct 13-year-old report on boys death
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel demanded a French television station on Sunday correct a report from nearly 13 years ago which helped fuel anger across the world and ignite a bloody uprising against the Jewish ...
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Exclusive Bangladesh factory banned by Wal-Mart still makes Wrangler shirts
GAZIPUR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Inditex SA inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for the world's largest apparel maker, U.S.-based VF ...
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Associated Press CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pruitt says DoJ's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was ...
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International markets roundup
A roundup of trading on major world markets:NEW YORK - US stocks resumed their upward push with both the Dow and S&P 500 closing at new all-time highs following favourable US economic reports.The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday jumped 121.18 (0.80 per cent) to 15,354.40.The broad-based S&P 500 rose 15.65 (0.95 per cent) to 1,666.12, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index added ...
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Reggae Star Injured at Concert
(Image Credit: Erika Goldring/GettyImages) Reggae group Toots & the Maytals are appealing to fans today to come forward with any video that shows the group’s lead singer being hit by a bottle during a weekend performance. Frederick ';Toots'; Hibbert is recovering today after he was struck on the forehead by the glass bottle Saturday night at ...
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Top Libyan official Benghazi explosion accident
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Libya's deputy prime minister says an investigation has indicated that a deadly explosion in Benghazi last week was an accident and not an ...
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county_western World Bank awards Sh5m grant for coffee factory
The World Bank has awarded a Sh5 million grant for the construction of a new coffee factory in Mt Elgon. The grant for the construction of Kitaban Coffee Factory in Kapsokwony Division has been channelled through Western Kenya Community Driven Development and Flood Mitigation Program (WKCDD-FMPG) under the Ministry of Special Programmes. Addressing coffee farmers on Friday during an Annual ...
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Drug charge for Virgin Islands environment officer
KINGSTON, Jamaica -; Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the U.S. Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol ...
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International markets roundup
A ROUNDUP of trading on major world markets: NEW YORK - US stocks resumed their upward push with both the Dow and S&P 500 closing at new all-time highs following favourable US economic reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday jumped 121.18 (0.80 per cent) to 15,354.40. The broad-based S&P 500 rose 15.65 (0.95 per cent) to 1,666.12, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index added ...
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International markets roundup
A ROUNDUP of trading on major world markets: NEW YORK - US stocks resumed their upward push with both the Dow and S&P 500 closing at new all-time highs following favourable US economic reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday jumped 121.18 (0.80 per cent) to 15,354.40. The broad-based S&P 500 rose 15.65 (0.95 per cent) to 1,666.12, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index added ...
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International markets roundup
A ROUNDUP of trading on major world markets: NEW YORK - US stocks resumed their upward push with both the Dow and S&P 500 closing at new all-time highs following favourable US economic reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday jumped 121.18 (0.80 per cent) to 15,354.40. The broad-based S&P 500 rose 15.65 (0.95 per cent) to 1,666.12, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index ...
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Former Pyeongchang 2018 chief given new role by International Table Tennis Federation
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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Film Review Inside Llewyn Davis The Cannes International Film Festival
. What is most impressive about the film (a premiere in the Cannes competition at the weekend) is the sure-footed way the Coens combine comedy, music and brooding film noir elements. This is ostensibly a film about the Greenwich Village folk music scene in the early 1960s, just before the coming of Bob Dylan, but it is far richer than such a description might ...
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Iran hangs accused CIA Mossad spies
Mohamad Heidary was executed after being convicted of supplying secret information to Mossad agents while travelling abroad.Kurosh Ahmadi was hanged for providing information about Iran to CIA officers, Fars said.The news agency did not provide additional information about the men or identify the location where the executions were carried out.The Iranian government follows Sharia law, which ...
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Dire outlook despite warming pause
While the last decade was the hottest since records began in 1880, the rate of increase showed a stabilisation despite ever-rising levels of Earth-warming greenhouse gases in the ...
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One lucky $600m winner as N Korea fires missile
Sheila Sutton updates the Powerball prize money sign at the Super C convenience store in Lincoln, Nebraska before the big draw. Lottery officials confirmed a single winner for the record $600 million jackpot, with the winning ticket sold at Florida supermarket. Picture: ...
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Letters Europe and the fight for fair wages
Exit Europe from the left , 18 May), but he is mistaken to imagine we can improve matters by leaving. Should we do so we will then be out in the cold and easily picked off by big business and finance demanding lower wages in order for the UK to receive investment or prevent relocation.Instead, the answer has to be to align the public anger about austerity and businesses anxiety about declining ...
Austin Digest
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Austin among the leading US cities emerging from recession
The financial crisis, now refered to by some as the Great Recession, has battered cities across the country, but Austin has become a pocket of hope where jobs are available and the population is growing, suggesting that the city may be among a few in the US leading the country out of the recession.
Austin has been ranked in the top 20 US cities with strong population growth, the study was done by the Census Bureau, this is a reflection of the sound economic performance of Texas as whole (the state had several of its cities in the top 20), and subsequently may be given four additional House seats following the 2010 census. Read more
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