In some funny places in the outside world, Switzerland is known as being a country full only of rich people with golden Swiss wristwatches eating Swiss (!) chocolate 24 hours a day. This by far is not true. However, in each rumor there is a ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died Tuesday in Caracas after an almost two-year battle with cancer and 14 years of a dominating socialist presidency that leaves the country with the world's largest oil reserves mired in uncertainty. The ...
Germany may decrease investment in the UK for the latter may withdraw from the EU. Alexander Schumann, chief economist of the German Industry and Trade Commission (DIHK), said in an interview with Reuters: "Enterprise are full of hesitation ...
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The UK food industry would face a labour shortfall, export uncertainty and a regulatory black hole if Britain walked away from the EU, experts have warned. Quitting Europe would bring ‘mind blowing’ consequences for the UK ...
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The Kurdistan Regional Government is proud of the achievements of its oil and gas industry since the fall of the former regime in 2003. It expects the federal government of Iraq to be proud of them, too. Since oil exports from the ...
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MENA reported that the Egyptian Stock Exchange rose on December 20th Thursday after the announcement of positive news related to the economy. This, combined with a brief period of political calm in between the two rounds of voting in the ...
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The US House of Representatives has voted unanimously to approve a resolution aimed at preventing any efforts to hand the United Nations more power to oversee the Internet. The resolution by the lower house of the US Congress had ...
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Drafted and adopted by a referendum in 2005, the Iraqi constitution outlines the structure of the federal government and stipulates what bodies should form its legislative, executive and judicial branches. The legislative branch is to ...
FACEBOOK has unveiled simplified tools for protecting privacy and making it easier for users whose pictures are on display to ask friends to remove them. Facebook privacy "kit" updates that will begin rolling out next week include ...
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Reuters reported that London copper edged down after rising for two weeks in a row although signs of economic recovery in top consumer China and hopes for Greece to avert an imminent bankruptcy kept a floor under prices. Copper prices ...
IDG News Service-The U.S.House of Representatives voted late Thursday to send a message to the United Nations'International Telecommunication Union that the Internet doesn't need new international regulations.The vote was unanimous:414-0. ...
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European Extremely Large Telescope'approved'12 Jun 2012 European Southern Observatory(ESO)council votes for provisional go-ahead of project to build the world's largest telescope. A project to build what will be by far the world's ...