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NRI lawyer wins Iran bank case in British Supreme Court
Mumbai-born Parsi lawyer Sarosh Zaiwala Wednesday notched a remarkable success in a bank case in the British Supreme Court, with major ramifications on the international banking system, an official said. By the court verdict, the British government's sanctions on Iran's largest private bank, Bank Mellat, were lifted after the its security service's "Secret Court" failed to produce significant ...
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UN headquarters in Somalia attacked
An attacker Wednesday blew himself up at the entrance to the UN headquarters in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, CNN reported. Others wearing suicide vests entered the UN compound and a gunfight ensued, said police officer Hussein Ahmed. The compound had now been secured and was in the hands of African Union troops, according to the official Twitter account of the African Union Mission to ...
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South Korean president visits Indian book pavilion
South Korean President Park Geun-hye Wednesday toured the Indian pavilion at an international book fair here in which India is participating as the guest of honour for the first time. She toured the Indian pavilion at the Seoul International Book Fair, spending close to 10 minutes there, said an embassy press release. It was followed by a brief interaction when Minister of State for Human ...
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Palestinians should have a state as a right Blair
Palestinians "should have a state, not as a reward for good behaviour but as a right", Tony Blair, the official envoy of the Middle East Quartet, said Wednesday. Blair cautioned Israeli leaders that the "window of opportunity" for peace with the Palestinians might close shortly, Xinhua reported. "Some say the two-state solution is a fantasy. The fantasy is thinking one-state is sustainable or ...
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Suicide bombers attack UN office in Mogadishu
Mogadishu, June 19 (Xinhua-ANI): Militants on Wednesday launched suicide bomb attacks on the office of United Nations Development Programe (UNDP) in Mogadishu where guards exchanged fire with the gunmen in and around the compound, police and witnesses said. "The fighting with the gunmen and suicide bombers is ongoing. We have eliminated some of the attackers but the fighting is now going on," ...
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Li Na enters second round at Eastbourne
Second seed Li Na of China defeated French woman Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Aegon International here. Li, French Open champion two years ago but beaten in the second round at Roland Garros earlier this month, will next take on former champion Marion Bartoli of France, reports Xinhua. Fifth seed Caroline Wozniacki, the former World No.1, led Tamira Paszek 6-2, 2-2 ...
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Veronica Campbell-Brown denies knowingly taking drug
Olympic and World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown has denied knowingly taking a banned substance Lasix, which also goes by the name Furosemide. Brown's first public reaction came in the form of a statement released by her On Track Management (OTM) group following reports that she has tested positive for the banned drug. The OTM statement says Brown is determined to clear her name and included ...
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Brazil protests will calm down Blatter hopes
FIFA president Sepp Blatter denied that the Confederations Cup and World Cup are the causes for mass protests across Brazil. Demonstrations, which began last week in response to rise in public transport fares, have turned into a nation-wide rally against bad governance and corruption, reports Xinhua. Many marchers expressed their anger at the billions of dollars spent on new football stadiums ...
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Pakistan expresses concern over US drone attacks at UNSC
Pakistan has expressed concerns over drone attacks to the United Nations Security Council. Pakistan told the UNSC that armed drones were violating country's sovereignty, causing civilian casualties, and putting communities at risk of reprisal attacks. According to the Daily Times, Pakistan said drone strikes radicalised disaffected communities and increased the number of terrorists, adding ...
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Protestors hack Brazil World Cup 2014 website
Protestors have reportedly hacked the official website for the Brazil Football World Cup 2014 and replaced the site with a video of a violent police response to a peaceful protest. According to News.com.au, the FIFA website was replaced with an embedded YouTube video, showing protesters marching, before riot police release tear gas and fire on the protesters with rubber bullets. The report ...
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Kim Jong Un distributes copies of Hitlers Mein Kampf to North Korean officials to mark bday
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un handed out copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to mark his birthday. Kim reportedly distributed the copies of Mein Kampf in an effort to sow fear among top officials. According to the Telegraph, North Korea-watchers believe the move is part of an effort to make him seem powerful, rather than drawing on Nazi beliefs. Shirley Lee, the editor of the New Focus ...
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Murdoch Uni ranked among worlds best young unis
Murdoch University has been named for the first time in Times Higher Education's top 100 universities under 50 years old rankings. Murdoch debuted in the rankings at 57, while Curtin University was ranked ...
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Panic over MERS virus fades in Saudi Arabia
People in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province have again started greeting friends with the traditional kiss on the cheek, and face masks in public are becoming rarer, as panic subsides over the outbreak of a deadly respiratory disease that hit the country last ...
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Brazil matters - and not because of the World Cup
As massive protests sweep across Brazil, Tim Harcourt and Mark Thirlwell explain why the importance of that country to Australia goes well beyond the World Cup in 2014 and the Rio Olympics in ...
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Boyd Oregon State knock IU out of College World Series
Bruce Thorson/USA Today Sports OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- In the kind of pitchers' duel the College World Series hadn't seen in three decades, Matt Boyd was just a bit superior to Aaron Slegers. Boyd threw a four-hitter and Oregon State ended the Hoosiers' first appearance in Omaha with a 1-0 victory Wednesday night. "Matt was just a couple of pitches ...
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1 in 8 bird species threatened with extinction
One in eight bird species worldwide faces the threat of extinction, according to a report released by Birdlife International. And it isn't just rare birds that are declining. Familiar species such as the barn swallow and purple martin are disappearing at an astonishing rate. In the case of those two birds, 80 to 90 per cent of the population was wiped out in the last 20 years. ...
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Orlando International Airport tops all Florida airports for gun seizures www.privateofficer.com
TSA officers have stopped more armed passengers trying to board flights at Orlando International Airport than at any other Florida airport, according to the Transportation Security Administration. The last attempt was Sunday morning, when a St. Augustine traveler carrying a loaded .22-caliber pistol was arrested when he passed a carry-on bag through an X-ray scanner, records show. ...
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Ethiopia World Bank - Ethiopia Can Achieve Middle-Income Status By 2020
The World Bank Ethiopia Office released a report on Tuesday (June 18th ) detailing the country's current economic situation and forecasting future prospects. According to the report, the World Bank acknowledged that Ethiopia had the capability to achieve its target of becoming a middle income country by 2020. The report said that in spite of all the challenges, if Ethiopia continued its ...
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World Thirst for Energy
As the global economy slowly recovers from the 2008 financial crisis, indicators point to a significant mid- and long-term rise in energy consumption, specifically in oil and natural gas. Despite recent developments in renewable energy resources and the increasing production of hydrocarbon from shale reserves, it looks likely that both consumption and prices will climb higher over the coming ...
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WMD Regulation in the Middle East
"For the Syrian government to utilize chemical weapons on its people crosses a line that will change my calculus and how the United States approaches these issues," President Obama recently said. "So this is not an on and off switch. This is an ongoing challenge that all of us have to be concerned about." Evidently, current methods to control WMD, such as relying on ...
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Spreadbetters see Europe stocks sinking after Fed
PARIS, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:03am EDT PARIS, June 20 (Reuters) - Financial spreadbetters expect Europe's main stock indexes to drop on Thursday, tracking losses on Wall Street after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke confirmed the Fed would begin winding down its stimulus spending later this year. Spreadbetters expect London's FTSE 100 to open around 100 points ...
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Film TWA 800 crash was no accident
>Editor's note: Note language in story(CNN) -- A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers "solid proof that there was an external detonation," its co-producer said Wednesday. "Of course, everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data, and the radar data shows a(n) asymmetric explosion coming out ...
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Iranians dance in the streets after qualifying for World Cup days after election
For the second time in days, Iranians, who have had little cause for cheer in eight years, have been dancing in the streets. There was an explosion of joy in their fun-starved nation when its beloved national football team won a prized ticket to next summer's World Cup finals in Brazil with a 1-0 away victory over South Korea on Tuesday. This followed a weekend of celebrations after ...
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Two Canadian sites in running for World Heritage status
A Basque whaling station that dates to the 1500s and a largely unspoiled expanse of boreal forest where five First Nations have existed for six millenniums are among the international sites being considered this week for coveted World Heritage designation.Canadian officials are in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, hoping to convince UNESCO's World Heritage Committee that the Red Bay National Historic ...
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World War Z The zombie canon gets a grown-up addition
From left, Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, Abigail Hargrove as Rachel Lane, and Mireille Enos as Karin Lane in a scene from World War Z. (Jaap Buitendijk/Paramount ...
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Cost of driving is becoming punitive in Brisbane
Is driving in Brisbane becoming punitively expensive? With the recent toll increases, on top of those made in 2006 and 2008, as well as last year, and the recent mis-management surrounding the privatisation of major roads in Sydney, it seems that using major roads in Brisbane is going to become even more expensive.
Brisbane, like many cities across Australia, is facing a mounting budget deficit in the wake of the near-crippling financial crisis and ensuing recession, as the state capital, it must also oversee Queensland’s plunge in revenues, which has created a budget deficit of over $2.3 billion for the state. Read more
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