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Italy has lowest graduate share in Europe
Italy has the lowest graduation rates in Europe with just one-fifth of people aged 30-34 holding a university degree, according to a study. A total of 31 percent of Italian families cannot afford to pay for their children's university studies, and must take out loans or have their offspring seek jobs to help fund tuition and living costs, said the report by charity Save the Children. It said ...
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UN urges collective efforts to achieve water secure world on Day for Biological Diversity
22 May 2013 150 Unless greater efforts are made to reverse current trends, the world will run out of freshwater, the United Nations said today marking the International Day for Biological Diversity and urging stronger scientific alliances to understand and protect natural resources. "We live in an increasingly water insecure world where demand often outstrips supply and where water quality ...
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Amid turmoil in Mideast UN envoy urges concerted action to resume Israeli-Palestinian talks
22 May 2013 150 While international attention is understandably on the tragedy that continues to unfold in Syria, it is equally important to ensure the resumption of negotiations aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a senior United Nations envoy stressed to the Security Council today. "Ending the conflict in Syria is a matter of great urgency and must be the top priority of ...
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International community must help Darfur become self-sufficient 8211 UN official
22 May 2013 150 The United Nations humanitarian chief today stressed the international community must do more to ensure the people of Sudan's Darfur region can better provide for themselves. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos, who is currently on a four-day visit to Darfur, said she was disappointed that after 10 years of humanitarian operations, the region is ...
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UN agency to open nuclear emergency preparedness centre in Fukushima
22 May 2013 150 Experts from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are heading to Japan to launch an emergency preparedness and response centre in Fukushima, the coastal city devastated two years ago when a massive earthquake and tsunami set off meltdowns at a nuclear power plant. The IAEA, supported by the Government of Japan, will designate a new Response and ...
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Council of Europe Concerned About Russias Human-Rights Record
MOSCOW Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary general of the Council of Europe, has told President Vladimir Putin that the human rights body is concerned about Russia's law requiring non-governmental organizations to register as foreign agents. Jagland said Europe will watch how the Kremlin implements the law that went in effect last November, a measure requiring non-governmental organizations ...
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African Progress Panel Urges Leaders to Exploit Resources
ADDIS ABABA -- As the African Union celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding, a group of respected leaders and activists led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging African leaders to maximize the continent’s natural resource potential. The African Progress Panel ...
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Google Europe and How Antitrust Is Like Football
David Balto is a former policy director of the Federal Trade Commission, attorney-adviser to Chairman Robert Pitofsky, and antitrust lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice. He has been a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and has worked with the International Center on Law and Economics, both of which receive funding from many organizations including Google. Mr. Balto has also ...
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Brazil police arrest 9 for abusing Indian girls
SAO PAULO -; Brazil's Federal Police say nine people have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing Indians girls in the northern state of ...
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USA Prepares Regional War in the Middle East
Ottawa, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Hidden behind alleged peace talks between, the United States is preparing a regional war, denounced today the Canadian alternative publication Global Research. Using as background curtain the peace talks between the Syrian government and Western-backed "rebels", Secretary of State, John Kerry, met with US allies to prepare for region-wide war, says the ...
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Cogstates cognitive tests to play key role in international Alzheimers study
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) CogState's (ASX: CGS) computerised cognitive tests have been selected as part of the battery of cognition tests in a major global study investigating the early detection of Alzheimer's disease.The trial is being run by the international research partnership Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network out of the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network ...
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Grandmother trumped in court case
Donald Trump and against an 87-year-old grandmother who took him to court alleging that the star of the US version of The Apprentice cheated her in a skyscraper condominium ...
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The War for the Arab World - Marc Lynch
Obama to redouble efforts to shutter Gitmo, reduce drone strikes; Rosa Brooks wants POTUS in her classroom; Horror in the U.K.; Is Jon Stewart goading the WH on the VA?; Hagel: build a better software program; and a little bit more. - by Gordon ...
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Obama tackles drones Guantanamo in reset of war on terror
President Barack Obama Thursday laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and launched a new bid to close Guantanamo Bay, warning that a "perpetual" US war on terror would be ...
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Police make 2 new arrests in London soldier killing
British police investigating the brutal murder of a soldier by suspected Islamists in London said on Thursday they had arrested two alleged ...
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Wellington to roll out red carpet for Worlds End
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will be returning to Wellington. It's just been announced the duo, along with director Edgar Wright and actor Martin Freeman will be heading to the capital to celebrate the premiere of their new movie, The World's End in July. The World's End marks the much awaitedthird instalment of Edgar Wright's trilogy of comedies, following the successes ...
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Airline with in-flight bar and Swarovki crystals named best in world
Virgin Atlantic, with its in-flight bar, designer-clad flight attendants and leather seats, has emerged as the favorite long-haul airline among readers of a luxury travel magazine published by The Daily Telegraph. Announced this week out of London, the carrier helmed by splashy billionaire ...
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Meet the 23-ton X-Wing the worlds largest Lego model
There's big, then there's really big, and then there's colossal, which might be a good word to use when describing a near 46,000-pound Lego X-Wing that made a triumphant debut today in New York's Times Square. The full-size replica, about 42 times the size of the Lego "Star Wars" X-Wing (#9493) set available on store shelves, celebrates the debut of Cartoon ...
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Child nearly drowns at International Drive hotel
International Drive hotel this afternoon.Emergency responders were called about 4: 05 p.m. to the Rosen Inn at Pointe Orlando at 9000 International Dr. in the city's tourist district after the Sheriff's Office received a call from the hotel's front desk.The child, whose name or sex was not released, was taken ...
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U.S. Basketball Team Driven by International Talent
(Reuters) - The star-studded US national basketball team cannot afford to get complacent about being the sport's superpower given the pace of emerging talent around the globe, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said on Thursday. According to Krzyzewski, having the privilege of coaching teams that have boasted NBA All-Stars LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul ...
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Stores shut schools close amid curfew by Rio drug dealers
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro ordered shops closed in one of its biggest slums early Thursday, defying efforts to restore order to the city's vast shantytowns and renewing safety concerns in Brazil as it prepares to host the World Cup and ...
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Arab Spring Puts the Middle East in Bloody Whirlpool Says Patriarch
Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem said that the historical period referred to as the "Arab Spring" puts the Middle East in a "serious and bloody ...
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International Institute for Peace through Tourism announces launch of Peace Tours Morocco
STOWE, Vermont; TORREMOLINOS, Spain & CASABLANCA, Morocco - The International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) is pleased to announce the launch of Peace Tours Morocco as its second "Legacy Project" commemorating the 25th anniversary since its first global conference, "Tourism - A Vital Force for Peace," held in Vancouver in 1988. Peace Tours Morocco is a ...
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Watch Obama on Guantanamo Heckler Worth Paying Attention To
And given my administration's relentless pursuit of Al qaeda's leadership. There is no justification beyond politics for congress to prevent us from closing a facility. The mission should have never been open. Today it. -- need to to. About a dozen members you -- you -- has -- He might give us yeah. Hey why would you -- resident -- -- and wanted to sit around and ultimately. And me. ...
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Watch NJ Bars Accused of Serving Cheap Booze
An investigation is called operations. Will. 29 licensed bars and restaurants -- New Jersey tonight are accused of doing a switcheroo. Putting cheaper well drinks and premium liquor bottles ...
Asia Pacific Focus
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Asia Pacific leads world in creating wealth
The Asia Pacific region houses a higher proportion of High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) than any other region on earth.
The claim is part of the World Wealth Report prepared by Merrill Lynch which studied wealth effects in seventy one countries, which account for 98% of global gross income and 99% of world stock market capitalization. Read more
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