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2 fires north of LA persist after long fire week
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) -- A pair of tamed but persistent wildfires still burned in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 after a wild week of burning brush in the area north ...
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Customs save Exchequer €1.75m in closure of diesel operation
Investigations are continuing after custom officers discovered and closed a diesel-laundering operation in Dublin last night.The operation was located in an industrial estate in Blanchardstown.It is estimated a loss of around EUR1.75m to the Exchequer was prevented by the intelligence sting operation.No one was arrested but investigations are ...
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Obama Agenda Seems to Be Weathering Controversies
Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office. "Absolutely not," Steven Miller, the recently resigned acting head of the Internal Revenue ...
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Cops investigating after NY college student killed
Hofstra University students gather near the house where another student and an armed intruder were killed during an overnight house break-in next to the campus, Friday, May 17, 2013, in Uniondale, N.Y. (AP Photo/ Louis ...
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Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains crash
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to Connecticut hospitals, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast ...
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Harry Potter first edition annotated by author up for auction
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - British author JK Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series of books, poses during the launch of new online website Pottermore in London June 23, 2011. REUTERS/Suzanne ...
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Lawyer for accused singer steroids had ill effect
VISTA, Calif. -; The lawyer for a California heavy metal singer accused of trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife says the singer's mind has been ravaged by steroid ...
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Obama aims to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that country. The president asked for $79.4 billion to fund so-called overseas contingency operations in fiscal 2014, which begins October 1, down from his original $88.5 billion request, a White House aide ...
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Simpsons ex-lawyer says he poured his soul into trial
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Yale Galanter, O.J. Simpson's former defense attorney, reacts during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Steve ...
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Petroceltic stalls stock listing as deal delayed
Petroceltic reached an agreement to sell an 18.37pc interest in the Isarene permit to Italian energy giant Enel.Petroceltic received more than $100m (EUR77.6m) from Enel, which represented nearly a quarter of all the back costs incurred in the exploration period of the permit, and nearly half the costs of the six appraisal wells that had been drilled.Petroceltic, which is already listed on ...
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European stocks at five-year high on back of US bounce
John Mulligan - 18 May 2013 European stock markets surged to a five-year high after economic data from the United States showed that consumer confidence there jumped to its highest level in almost six ...
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Cracks in Philips Ocado deal
Under his tenure, the UK's fourth biggest grocery chain has been suffering, losing market share to rivals including Asda and Sainsbury's. The difficult market is evidenced in Tesco's travails, too.The deal Morrisons unveiled yesterday with online retailer Ocado aims to help the chain regain lost ground. Morrisons already sells non-food items online, but this will extend its ...
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Dells profit falls 79pc as founder continues $24bn takeover battle
Hewlett-Packard , Dell is investing heavily on research and sales to retain customers.Mr Icahn and major stakeholder Southeastern Asset Management, however, dismiss Mr Dell's go-private deal as too cheap for a company trying to become a major provider of enterprise computing. They are proposing new leadership and additional cash or stock for shareholders. ...
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Danish PM shelves plan for a vote on joining euro
A referendum on joining the euro "in this election term is unrealistic", Ms Thorning-Schmidt said, adding: "I don't think it makes any sense to discuss the option of a euro referendum in the next term" (set to run from 2015 to 2019).Ms Thorning-Schmidt, who is half-way through her first four-year term, said Denmark's chosen model of an opt-out from the euro had ...
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Europes car market rises at last but the recovery may be short-lived
Christiaan Hetzner and Rhys Jones - 18 May 2013 EUROPE'S ailing car market has ended a streak of 18 straight months of falling sales, although a number of one-off factors suggest that a sustained recovery will be harder to ...
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Bold New Efforts to Talk Down the Euro
(MENAFN - DailyFX) With the Eurozone economy still mired in recession, policymakers have begun making more concerted efforts to talk down the euro as a means of stimulating exports and driving growth.The euro (EUR) came under selling pressure against the US dollar (USD) after European Industry ...
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Amazing videos in the face of tornadoes
A series of 16 violent tornadoes ransacked north Texas this week, killing six people and flattening entire neighborhoods. Seven people who were reported missing early Friday morning have now been accounted for, but the storms aren't over yet. Severe thunderstorms are expected late Friday in Alabama and Mississippi, and the Plains and the Midwest face threats of even more tornadoes this ...
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Officials About 50 people injured in Conn. train collision
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Danish museum officials say that an archaeological dig last year has revealed 365 items from the Viking era, including 60 rare ...
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Colorado sheriffs sue to block new gun-control laws
DENVER (Reuters) - A group of Colorado county sheriffs, angry over two new state gun control laws passed in the wake of last year's mass shootings in Connecticut and Colorado, filed a federal lawsuit on Friday seeking to block the laws from going into ...
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Flesh-eating disease victim gets prosthetic hands
ATLANTA -- A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands.Aimee Copeland, 25, is returning from Hilliard, Ohio, where she was fitted with a pair of hands with 24 programmable functions that will improve her dexterity, her father, Andy, told the ...
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Editorial €300000 worth of jewellery swiped so many explanations
Ah, the irony. The Cannes Film Festival - promoter of any number of heist movies - was itself the scene of an audacious robbery yesterday. Indeed, it was on the very day of the screening of The Bling Ring (about a gang that burgles the rich and famous while they are strutting the red carpet) that thieves swiped EUR300,000 (250,000) worth of jewellery that was to adorn Hollywood's A-listers ...
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Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on ...
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The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession Spain France Italy Finland Netherlands Portugal Cyprus Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German govern
The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession: Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German government of Angela Merkel is sinking Europe. Eurostat data was released on Wednesday (15th) and are relative to GDP in the euro area in the first ...
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Tornado-ravaged Texas town to start recovery
Power lines damaged by Wednesday's tornado litter the streets in Cleburne, Texas on Thursday, May 16, 2013. Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. Emergency responders were still searching for missing people Thursday ...
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EURO Ressources Announces Date of Annual Shareholders Meeting and Dividend Distribution
) - EURO Ressources S.A. ("EURO" or the "Company") (PARIS The Board of Directors proposed on May 9, 2013, a cash dividend in the maximum amount of EUR 0.40 per share.? This amount may be reduced, by the board of directors, if the Company's disposable funds are deemed insufficient at this date for ...
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Switzerland world's most competitive country
Switzerland is frequently pointed to as a model of good governance, prosperity, innovation and stability and is one of the happiest countries in the world. The recent competitive survey by the WEF underscored this, but came with a warning.
Switzerland truly is an impressive country, landlocked and small with no natural resources; it has developed into one of the richest countries in the world and was recently named the most competitive economy in the world. This is due in large part to its banking sector, which is one of the most advanced and its government structure, which is efficient in comparison to many other developed countries. Read more
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