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  • European leaders hold summit on tax evasion

    The heads of state and government of the European Union held a summit Wednesday in an effort to make more progress in fighting tax evasion and tax fraud. EU leaders are targeting tax crimes both within the borders of their countries and in foreign tax havens despite the reluctance of Austria and Luxembourg. The leaders of the EU's 27 member states are expected to give the go ahead to the ...

  • Italy has lowest graduate share in Europe

    Italy has the lowest graduation rates in Europe with just one-fifth of people aged 30-34 holding a university degree, according to a study. A total of 31 percent of Italian families cannot afford to pay for their children's university studies, and must take out loans or have their offspring seek jobs to help fund tuition and living costs, said the report by charity Save the Children. It said ...

  • US tourist stabbed in Italy loses kidney

    A 68-year-old American tourist underwent emergency surgery to remove a kidney after he was stabbed in Italy's Florence city. The tourist, who was not named, was attacked near the famous Duomo cathedral. Doctors at the Santa Maria Nuova hospital said the man suffered knife wounds to a kidney and a lung but was no longer critical, and was conscious and breathing unaided. Police arrested a ...

  • Council of Europe Concerned About Russias Human-Rights Record

    MOSCOW Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary general of the Council of Europe, has told President Vladimir Putin that the human rights body is concerned about Russia's law requiring non-governmental organizations to register as foreign agents. Jagland said Europe will watch how the Kremlin implements the law that went in effect last November, a measure requiring non-governmental organizations ...

  • U.S. dollar slips against euro after Fed official remarks

    Beijing, May 22 (Xinhua-ANI): The U.S. dollar advanced against most major currencies on Tuesday, but weakened against the euro after a U.S. Federal Reserve official indicated that the central bank may not taper its bond-purchasing program soon. St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said at an event in Frankfurt that the Fed should continue with the quantitative easing to boost ...

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Eight Below

Eight Below

Perhaps you have to be a dog owner to be reduced to the blubbering mess that I found myself in by the end of Disney's Eight Below, but there you have it. Even with my sharpened critical faculties turned on high alert to detect every ounce of contrived tear duct manipulation, I was ... ...

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    warn of "ugly racism and Islamophobia". At this time, when so little is known, it’s worth noting that images of the crime are not neutral – they will play an active part in deciding what the Woolwich murder means – and what is done about it. The images we are all consuming with disgust are doing more than just showing us something horrible. There’s a ...

  • UN asks Russia for more peacekeepers

    New York, May 23 : Russia has been asked to increase the level of staff it commits to UN peacekeeping missions around the world, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev ...

  • Cub-scout leader talked down killer

    Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, a cub scout leader, talked with the killers and kept her nerve as one of them told her: "We want to start a war in London tonight."Mrs Loyau-Kennett (48), from Cornwall in England, was one of the first people on the scene after the two killers butchered a soldier in Woolwich yesterday.She was photographed by onlookers confronting one of the attackers, who was ...

  • The world’s wealthy ‘could be hiding €707 billion in Ireland’

    THE WORLD'S WEALTHIEST people could have over EUR700 billion hidden from international tax authorities - keeping it shielded in Irish financial institutions. That's according to Oxfam Ireland, which has warned that the new focus on corporate tax avoidance should not distract from the methods used by wealthy individuals to avoid income tax payments. The charity says wealthy ...

  • The European Commission French President Hollande accelerate austerity

    In recent days, French President Franois Hollande has been under pressure from the European Union (EU) and also from his own Socialist Party (PS) to accelerate austerity measures, amid a slowdown of the French and world economy. On Wednesday May 15, Franois Hollande went to Brussels to meet the President of the European Commission, Jos Manuel Barroso, and twenty EU commissioners. The EU ...

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