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Spain logs alarming jobless rate as it exits bailout

Spain logs alarming jobless rate as it exits bailout

Jan 23, – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Spain faced five more years with jobless rates topping 25 percent unless it enacted yet more reforms, also with a view to helping firms slash wages rather than cutting jobs. The deterioration, albeit a minor one, spoiled a central bank report on a 0.3-percent economic expansion […]

January 23, 2014 | By | Reply More
Smoking During Pregnancy Raises Baby’s Risk of Cleft Palate, Cleft Lip

Smoking During Pregnancy Raises Baby’s Risk of Cleft Palate, Cleft Lip

Jan 19, – Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of having a baby with a cleft lip and cleft palate, the U.S. Surgeon General confirms in a new report. Each year in the United States, more than 7,000 babies are born with cleft lip or cleft palate and smoking increases the risk by 30 percent […]

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Smog shrouds Beijing with dangerously high pollution levels

Smog shrouds Beijing with dangerously high pollution levels

Jan 16, – The Chinese authorities measured the density of particles of PM2.5 pollution in the air in parts of Beijing on Thursday at between 350 and 500 micrograms per cubic meter. Measurements conducted at a monitoring post at the US embassy in Beijing found a peak of 671 micrograms per cubic meter. That is […]

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Ukrainians rally amid fury at opposition leader’s beating

Ukrainians rally amid fury at opposition leader’s beating

Jan 12, Kiev – An estimated 50,000 pro-Western Ukrainians massed on Sunday in the heart of Kiev amid swelling anger over the bloody beating of prominent former minister turned opposition leader Yuriy Lutsenko. The 49-year-old member of jailed ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko’s cabinet was transferred out of intensive care on Saturday evening after being attacked by […]

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Turkey: Anti-Erdogan protest amid vast corruption probe

Turkey: Anti-Erdogan protest amid vast corruption probe

Jan 12, – Ankara – Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Turkey’s capital Ankara Saturday in protest against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, which has been rocked by a vast corruption probe. The government also signalled it may back down on a contentious bid to curb the judges’ powers as […]

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Al-Qaida-linked forces capture town of Fallujah in Iraq

Al-Qaida-linked forces capture town of Fallujah in Iraq

Jan 04, –  A rejuvenated al-Qaida-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic state in one of the most crucial areas that U.S. troops fought to pacify before withdrawing from Iraq two years ago. The capture of Fallujah came amid […]

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Pakistan’s Musharraf rushed to hospital, not court

Pakistan’s Musharraf rushed to hospital, not court

Jan 02, Islamabad – A Pakistani police official says former President Pervez Musharraf was rushed to hospital after feeling ill on his way to court for a hearing in his high treason case. Deputy inspector Jan Mohammed says Musharraf was taken to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in the nearby city of Rawalpindi. The […]

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Russia’s Putin vows to wipe out terrorists in New Year message

Russia’s Putin vows to wipe out terrorists in New Year message

Jan 01, – In a break from convention, Putin recorded two messages this year. The first, broadcast in the far east of the country, showed Putin at the Kremlin and called on Russians to work together. In the second, made on Tuesday while he was meeting flood victims in the city of Khabarovsk, he mentioned […]

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Soul diva Beyoncé’s stroke of brilliance

Soul diva Beyoncé’s stroke of brilliance

Dec 26, – No single released ahead of the album. No pre-release – legal or illegal – on the internet. No gimmicks, teasers or major marketing campaigns. A well-kept secret to the very end: ambitious soul diva Beyoncé’s fifth studio album is an extensive audio-visual work to be enjoyed in one sitting. The R & […]

December 26, 2013 | By | Reply More
British Airways plane wing slams into Johannesburg airport building

British Airways plane wing slams into Johannesburg airport building

Dec 23, – The Boeing 747-400 en route for London Heathrow Airport took a taxiway that was too narrow for it, said South African Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokeswoman Phindiwe Gwebu on Monday. “This resulted in the aircraft’s right-hand wing impacting the office building,”. The control tower “told them to take one taxiway and they […]

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