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Sarkozy's Nordic rival hits back at accent jibes
Reuters
PARIS Dec 9 (Reuters) - Eva Joly, a Norwegian-born environmentalist running for French president on the Greens' party ticket, turned the tables on people mocking her accent on Friday with a video in which she touts the richness and diversity of the ...
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Reuters photos of 2011
Toronto Sun
According to Environment Canada, Canada is home to around 15000 of the estimated 20000 polar bears in the world. REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger Gary Hunt of the United Kingdom dives in the final round of the Red Bull Cliff Diving WorldSeries 2011 ...
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Goal line technology only needed every 40 years - Platini
Reuters India
By Brian Homewood VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - UEFA president Michel Platini reiterated his opposition to goal line technology on Thursday, saying it would only be needed once every 40 years and could lead to "video refereeing". ...
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Syria: Homs massacre warning - live updates
The Guardian
10.10am GMT / 5.10am EST: The humanitarian situation in Syria is serious but the country has not yet descended into civil war, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.Reuters reports: ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger said the ...
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The Guardian
Goal line technology only needed every 40 years - Platini
Reuters UK
Germany's goalkeeper Manuel Neuer fails to save a shot by England's Frank Lampard during a 2010 World Cup second round match at Free State stadium in Bloemfontein June 27, 2010. By Brian Homewood VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - UEFA president Michel Platini ...
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Exclusive - Zynga says can double number of paid players
Reuters UK
By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - Zynga Inc Chief Executive Mark Pincus said the social games company can double the number of its paying players but he and other executives sidestepped questions about player retention and churn rates, speaking at a ...
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Russian site snubs FSB request to block opposition
Reuters
The FSB declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. In a country dominated by state-run media, amateur smartphone videos and online testimonies of ballot stuffing and multiple voting in Sunday's election have been instrumental in galvanizing ...
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Hollywood conjures up Harry Potter theme park
Daily Gleaner
By REUTERS Harry Potter is going Hollywood with a new theme park based at Universal Studios that will feature a Hogwarts castle as its centrepiece, alongside rollercoasters and other rides. NBCUniversal and film studio Warner Bros. unveiled The ...
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Timeline | Iran and the West — a history of tensions
CBC.ca
Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters Sept. 2011 — Two Americans convicted of spying in Iran and sentenced to eight years in prison are released on bail of around $500000 US each and return to the United States. The two men and a third US citizen were arrested on ...
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CBC.ca
Reporters: Alexis Akwagyiram and Matthew Davis
BBC News
Sources at the European Central Bank (ECB) tell Reuters the deal reached last night was broadly in line with what the bank's governing council expected and that it would maintain its recent level of buying eurozone sovereign bonds - not the "big ...
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BBC News
EXCLUSIVE | Patrick Chan explains Canada comments
CBC.ca
Beginning of Story Content Patrick Chan made headlines Thursday with his controversial interview with Reuters, in which the world champion said he sometimes feels unappreciated in Canada, where he feels figure skaters aren't adequately supported. ...
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Nintendo Allays Fears Influential Games Designer Miyamoto May Retire
Social Barrel
Nintendo has dispelled fears that Shigeru Miyamoto, the company's and probably the world's most influential and most recognizable games designer, is retiring. According to a report from Reuters, a spokesman from Nintendo has said that the buzz that ...
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Social Barrel
The Next Great Media Form
Fast Company
"I think the traditional article is dead," says Anthony DeRosa, Social Media Editor at Reuters. It "should be more like a live blog, because the traditional story format lacks a lot of evidence in the form of video/photos/tweets that help corroborate ...
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Top 5 stories that had us gripped
Independent Online
Photo: Reuters 1 Japan's devastating 9-magnitude earthquake and the tsunami it generated: Giant waves flattening entire communities along hundreds of kilometres of coastline of northern Japan, people caught unaware and then trying to outrun certain ...
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Independent Online
VIDEO: The Sofitel footage that lawyers say proves sex assault claims against ...
GlobalPost
... biographer Michel Taubmann, Reuters reported Nov. 30. Taubmann, meantime, has accused "a small group of people from the Sofitel" of having ensnared DSK in a "trap." NGO corruption suggests: How about a story on NGO corruption in the ThirdWorld, ...
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Android's Pickpocket Behind Google Wallet
Forbes
Competitors: Concerning Google Wallet specifically, eBay sued Google this year for picking Paypal's pocket of most of their trade secrets related to mobile payment systems, per Reuters. Concerning the creation of Android software, Oracle sued Google ...
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Twitter unveils major site makeover
ZDNet Asia
Twitter's new look was officially unveiled by chief executive Dick Costolo at the company's future headquarters in San Francisco, Reuters reported Thursday. "We have to provide the simplest and fastest way for people around the world to connect to ...
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Video posted of former FBI agent missing in Iran
Reuters India
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The family of a former FBI agent who vanished in Iran in 2007 has released a hostage video showing him alive and asking for help. Thevideo shows Robert Levinson, looking gaunt, asking for the US government's help "to answer the ...
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Hotels to stamp out unkindest cut
The Australian
Last month the EU proposed a blanket ban on shark finning in EU waters and by EU-registered vessels operating anywhere in the world. Reuters reports that China is the world's largest importer and consumer of shark fins, which can fetch up to E1000 ...
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As winter begins, an African Spring heats up in Ethiopia
Nazret.com (blog)
REUTERS/Irada Humbatova By John Lloyd The Arab Spring's effects continue to ripple outward. As Tahrir Square fills once more, it gains new momentum. For months now, the autocrats of Africa have feared it would move south, infecting their youth in ...
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Nazret.com (blog)
See the World of Movies through the 8th Dubai International Film Festival
International Business Times
7 and continues to bring world-class movies all around the world. Movie buffs have something to cheer about with the recent opening of the 8 th Dubai Film Festival, the leading film celebration in the Middle East. Separated in different categories such ...
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International Business Times
Cyber attacks could wreck world oil supply
London Free Press
By Daniel Fineren, REUTERS A view of a drilling rig and distant production platform in the Soldado Field off Trinidad's southwest coast, Sept. 10, 2011. (Reuters/Andrea De Silva) DOHA - Hackers are bombarding the world's computer controlled energy ...
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Flying Robots Construct 20-Foot Structure
The Mark
Chan said as much to Reuters ahead of the Grand Prix Final in Quebec City this weekend, where the 20-year-old will battle for his second consecutive title. Chan said that the Chinese government is far more supportive of its athletes than the Canadian ...
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Coca-Cola Formula Goes on Display at Museum, Ingredients Remain Hidden
The Inquisitr
According to Reuters, Coca-Cola's secret formula is making its journey to the World of Coca-Cola Museum to celebrate the company's 125th anniversary. The exhibit will be called The Vault of the Secret Formula. Attendees to the ribbon cutting ceremony ...
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The Inquisitr
Shigeru Miyamoto: Is He Really Retiring From Nintendo?
OC Weekly (blog)
... having video gaming fans all over the world believe that the creator of their beloved franchises was actually done with his work at Nintendo. However, Nintendo was quick to make a response. "This is absolutely not true," Nintendo said toReuters. ...
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Pay-TV operators gear up to challenge Netflix
Rapid tv news
According to Reuters, rather than become a virtual TV operator with a service that replicates FiOS, however, Verizon is eyeing the 85 million US households outside of its regulation-approved wireline territory for a "package of programming [that] would ...
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New Hire Roundup: Horan Goes to Chilton, Pan Moves Up at SEC, CFP Board Gains ...
AdvisorOne
From 2001 through 2007 Lonergan was president and COO of publishing company TheStreet.com; prior to that, he served as COO at World Information Network and as COO at Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters) and Technimetrics. ...
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AdvisorOne
Tax Group: Corporate Rate Kills US Competitiveness
NewsMax.com
"If you end up with a Republican in the White House, and that person puts a personal stake into getting tax reform," Kies tells Reuters, "it would allow that person to negotiate what might be a more moderate package than the hard right would normally ...
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The Saudi Arab Spring Nobody Noticed
Center for Research on Globalization
Witnesses described the small protest march in the eastern city of Qatif as peaceful, but an Interior Ministry spokesman said demonstrators had attacked the police before the officers began firing, Reuters reported. The clash with protesters in Qatif, ...
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Center for Research on Globalization
World News - Pakistan's Zardari says he's 'fine' and will return home ...
By msnbc.com staff and Reuters
Pakistan's Zardari says he's 'fine' and will return home soon. By msnbc.com staff and Reuters. ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is "fine" and will return home soon, a news anchor quoted him as saying on Friday, nearly a week...
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Fears over EU deal hit world stocks
By in2eastafrica.net
Credit: Reuters/Yuriko Nakao. LONDON | Fri Dec 9, 2011 3:45am EST (Reuters) – European stock markets and the euro fell on Friday on fears that EU leaders were struggling to come to terms on immediate measures to halt the slide of euro ...
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Comments Europe's disastrous summit - Reuters
By Felix Salmon
Take any of the list of prescriptions of the minimum necessary right now — from Münchau, from Larry Summers, from Mohamed El-Erian — and the one thing that jumps out at you, especially in light of the most recent news, is that if you look at anybody's list, ... The European Banking Authority, with exquisite timing, informed the world on Thursday that the continent's banks need to raise €115 billion in new capital, including more than €15 billion for Spain's Banco Santander alone. ...
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Elton John commemorates World AIDS Day | Video | Reuters.com
01 - Sir Elton John lights the Sydney Opera House to commemorate World AIDS Day. ... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news...
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Video posted of former FBI agent missing in Iran | World | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The family of a former FBI agent who vanished in Iran in 2007 has released a hostage video showing him alive and asking for help.
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World's best bartenders battle for flair | Video | Reuters.com
5 - International bartenders compete for the best display of bartending skills title at 'flair ... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news...
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Clinton tells developing world to be wary of donors | Reuters
BUSAN, South Korea (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged developing nations on ... World aid donors plot strategy amid economic crisis. Mon, Nov ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-development-clinton-idUSTRE7AT08J...
Egypt's ElBaradei turns up heat on ruling generals | Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei has offered to lead a government of ... France and Germany seek support for crisis plan | Video ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency,...
www.reuters.com/.../us-egypt-protests-idUSTRE7AI0EC20111...
World aid donors plot strategy amid economic crisis | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major global aid donors meet in South Korea this week hoping to ... Two dead in Virginia Tech University shooting | Video ... Returnees from north Sudan wait in line to receive food from the World Food Program ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency,...
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Euro, world stocks see cautious gains on EU deal | Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - European markets, at first uncertain, grew more positive towards an ... Europe moves ahead with fiscal union, UK isolated | Video ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing ...
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UN calls for restraint on eve of Congo vote | Reuters
KINSHASA (Reuters) - International organizations appealed for calm on the eve of Democratic Republic of ... Related Video. Video .... Thomson Reuters is theworld's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news,...
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U.S. citizen jailed for insulting Thai monarchy | Reuters
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen was jailed for two-and-a-half years on Thursday ... MuniLand: Getting paid for municipal risk · Video: How did this man impact revolution? ... and say it supported the freedom of expression everywhere in the world. .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews ...
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Afghan bombs kill 78 in two days | Reuters
KABUL (Reuters) - A roadside mine killed 19 civilians and injured another five when it exploded in the ... Related Video. Video .... Thomson Reuters is the world'slargest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world...
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Markets jolted as hopes for EU action wane | Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors dumped stocks, commodities and the euro on Thursday as ... EU leaders agree fiscal pact, give up on treaty change | Video ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency,...
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Kabul's poor demand attention of Bonn delegates | Reuters
KABUL (Reuters) - Kabul's residents have called on delegates at next week'sinternational talks on ... Related Video. Video ... Afghanistan is one of theworld's biggest aid recipients, receiving an estimated $16 billion this year. ...Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing ...
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Donations to charities in China plunge after scandals | Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Charitable donations in China have plunged more than 80 percent because of ... UK isolated as Europe agrees on new fiscal union | Video.... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, ...
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