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International
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Tuesday, 18 June, 2013
LE BOURGET, France — The Paris Air Show, the world's biggest air fair, got off to a flying start yesterday, despite stormy weather, as airplane makers Airbus and Boeing vied to announce a flurry of orders for passenger planes.
Airbus took the early lead in the biennial battle for orders between the
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Tuesday, 18 June, 2013
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday inducted eight veterans into the union council of ministers, evidently with an eye to state assembly elections this year-end.
With general elections less than a year away, the prime minister evidently played safe and brought in only people with a
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Tuesday, 18 June, 2013
MANILA — Philippine authorities yesterday said they had abandoned hope of finding alive seven people missing from a ferry which sank last week with dozens on board, after three days of searching in strong currents.
Rescuers recovered two bodies from the sea and rescued 61 others after the Lady of M
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Tuesday, 18 June, 2013
LONDON — Documents leaked by US former spy Edward Snowden appear to show that Britain spied on foreign delegates at the 2009 London G20 meetings, a newspaper reported yesterday. Among the officials targeted were delegates from Nato ally Turkey and from fellow Commonwealth state South Africa, said Br
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Tuesday, 18 June, 2013
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — The United States and the European Union launched negotiations for the world's most ambitious free-trade deal yesterday, promising thousands of new jobs and accelerated growth on both sides of the Atlantic.
Trade between Europe and the United States is worth almost $
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Tuesday, 18 June, 2013
LISBON — Thousands of teachers across Portugal walked away from final exams held at secondary schools yesterday to protest against planned spending cuts in education, leaving many pupils unable to take the tests, unions said.
The cuts are among the most recent austerity measures proposed by Portuga
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Tuesday, 18 June, 2013
TBILISI — Georgian security agencies said yesterday they had uncovered a large cache of explosives and weapons hidden by high-ranking former interior ministry officials as part of a possible plot to carry out "subversive operations."
Georgia's state security agency found "large amounts of explosive
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Tuesday, 18 June, 2013
BERNE — The European Union official in charge of tax policy tried to persuade Switzerland yesterday to agree to surrender more information about clients of its big banking industry as part of a drive to combat tax evasion. Commissioner Algirdas Semeta's meeting with Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Wi
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Tuesday, 18 June, 2013
ATHENS — A looming political crisis in Greece over the shock shutdown of state broadcaster ERT came to a head yesterday, with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras summoning his coalition allies to an emergency meeting.
Samaras called the meeting with the leaders of the smaller socialist and moderate left
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Monday, 17 June, 2013
QUETTA — Weeping relatives gathered yesterday to identify the charred remains of loved ones killed in a double attack in southwest claimed by a banned group.
At least 25 people were killed on Saturday when insurgents blew up a bus carrying female students in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province,
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