A U.S. official said Friday the State Department has been monitoring the situation and concludes that human rights abuses are continuing. The official says Secretary of State John Kerry plans to meet with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Ethiopia. Nigeria has declared a state of emergency in the north, where Boko Haram extremists have launched ...
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The mother and stepfather of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, Lyn and Ian Rigby and his wife Rebecca Rigby, grieve as his stepfather reads a family statement. ...
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Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, rattling the UK just days after a British soldier was killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack. A fighter jet was launched to divert the Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 passengers to Britain's Stansted Airport, officials ...
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With Friday's stage of the Giro d'Italia cancelled because of snow, cycling organisers have been forced to change Saturday's stage for the same ...
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In other news Friday, Russian officials announced that Syria has agreed "in principle" to attend an international peace conference on outlining a transition for new leadership. Also, in Kabul, Afghanistan, a guest house used by an international aid group was targeted by a suicide car bomber and five armed ...
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PARIS, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - The international police agency Interpol has deleted from its database all information in relation to UK-based investor William Browder, the organization said in a statement on Friday. Browder, who heads the Hermitage Capital equity fund, is a former boss of deceased lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and a prominent campaigner for justice in his case. Magnitsky’s 2009 ...
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Justice officials in France have decided not to press criminal charges against International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde for alleged misuse of public money as French finance minister in 2008.Lagarde, 57, was allowed to leave the French Court of the Republic in Paris after her second long day of interrogation on Friday.Officials gave her the somewhat less serious designation of ...
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Syria's most powerful ally Russia on Friday said the Damascus regime had agreed to attend an international peace conference on the crisis that world powers hope will take place in Geneva in ...
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England Francesco Molinari flourished while five of his European Ryder Cup team-mates fell flat on their faces as the Italian grabbed the lead after the PGA Championship second round on Friday.Luke Donald, the 2011 and 2012 winner, Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell and Paul Lawrie all missed the halfway cut after struggling in cold, dank conditions at the European Tour's flagship ...
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Ms Lagarde, 57, spent 24 hours over two days answering questions about her role in a EUR403m (344m) compensation award to the disgraced tycoon, Bernard Tapie, while she was French finance minister in 2008.The Republican Court of Justice, which examines alleged wrong-doing by ministers and ex-ministers, decided last night to make Ms Lagarde an "assisted witness" in the case, rather than ...
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PARIS (AP) — The international police agency Interpol has rejected a Russian push to locate and arrest a Britain-based investor who is a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin's regime.France-based Interpol said in a statement Friday it has "deleted all information in relation to William Browder."A special Interpol-related committee decided at a meeting Friday that ...
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WASHINGTON, May 24 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – Next month firefighters from New York, Boston and Russia will trade in their flame-resistant gear for shoulder pads and ice skates and team up against each other – and some of the best known names in hockey – for the third annual ‘Battles On Ice,’ a two-part annual competition in New York that organizers say ...
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John Lichfield has been The Independent's man in Paris since 1997, covering French news. Before that, he was the paper's Foreign Editor and he has also worked in Brussels and ...
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May 24 (Infostrada Sports) - Scores from the European Tour PGA Championship at the par-72 course on Friday in Wentworth. The cut was set at 146. 138 Francesco Molinari (Italy) 70 68 139 George Coetzee ...
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With Munich matched against Dortmund in the Champions League final at Wembley tonight, today is a day to remind us once again that Germans are uncommonly good at football. But they have always been pretty decent at centre-left politics too. No centre-left political party ...
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The streets of Paris are getting a reputation of being unsafe for tourists and is threatening the great brand names of French fashion. A leading association that counts Chanel and Dior as members urged the authorities to take action on the climate of insecurity which it said could keep cash-flush tourists away. Several recent incidents have tarnished the image of Paris - the world's most ...
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A man has been arrested in Dublin after a major drugs haul worth EUR1.7m.Garda searched a house on The Strand, Donabate yesterday and recovered almost EUR1m worth of ecstasy and EUR700,000 in cannabis herb.A 36-year-old man is being questioned at Mountjoy Garda ...
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Upsets by Jamie Hampton and Kaia Kanepi marked Friday's play at the WTA's Brussels Open but scheduled semifinals were postponed. Weather has been an issue at the tournament in Belgium through the week. Play Friday was delayed but officials were able to get two quarterfinals, which were postponed by rain Thursday, completed. As a result the semifinals and finals will be contested ...
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IMF chief Christine Lagarde says a Paris court has named her as a key witness in an investigation into a controversial payoff to an outspoken businessman arranged while she was Frances finance minister.
The status of «assisting witness» means that Lagarde... ...
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