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2018 FIFA World Cup stadium may be delayed until 2017
The completion date for Zenit St. Petersburg's $1.1 billion stadium has been put back again and it may not open until 2017, a decade after construction work began, the head of the government agency auditing the project said. The stadium is to host a 2018 World Cup semifinal, but the new date means there could be a rush to prepare it for scheduled Confederations Cup games in 2017. "The ...
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Russia announces cash prizes for World University medallists
Russia's federal government will pay out roughly $5,400 to Russian gold medallists at this summer's University Games in the Russian city of Kazan, according to a decree signed Tuesday by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Silver medallists, meanwhile, will receive a bonus of just over $2,600, while bronze medallists will earn about $1,600, as Russia looks to finish first in the medal table for the ...
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High public debt raises fiscal crisis risk IMF official
An official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned here that high public debt would raise the possibility of fiscal crisis. "We tend to underestimate the cost of fiscal crises before they occur," Carlo Cottarelli, director of IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department, said Monday during a luncheon speech hosted by the Washington-based think tank Peterson Institute for International Economics ...
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Indian sand artist wins Danish grand prize
Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the Danish 'grand prize' at the 2nd Copenhagen International Sand sculpture festival 2013 for his 15-foot coloured sand sculpture created on the "Go green, Save Earth" theme. Pattnaik got the award Monday at the prestigious festival being held in Denmark's capital city for his maiden coloured sand sculpture on foreign land. It took him seven days to ...
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Zardari holds national international conspiracies responsible for PPPs defeat in polls
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has claimed that "conspiracies" hatched by national and international institutions led to the Pakistan Peoples Party's defeat in the general elections. The News quoted Zardari, as saying that the PPP could have won 40-45 seats in the Punjab. He added that his party would play the role of opposition with full vigour. Zardari said he could not take part in ...
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World W. Bank pledges sh 83 billion to aid peace in Africas Great Lakes
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim unveiled the proposed aid financing for one of Africa's most intractable conflict regions on the first day of a trip with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to Democratic Republic ...
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Weak yen a help for Japan but headache elsewhere
TOKYO -; A steady decline in the yen is proving a godsend for exporters such as Toyota and has won solid support from Japan's main trading partners, who are betting the impact on their own currencies will be offset by gains from a recovery in the world's third-largest economy. It's not such good news for entrepreneurs like Thamonwan Thawornthaweewong, whose Angry Bird fish balls, ...
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World’s two most powerful men to meet next month
Signalling a major thaw in their relations, US president Barrack Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping will meet in US next month to give shape to future course of China-US ...
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Imran Khan leaveas hospital back at his home in Pak city of Lahore
Cricket News: Imran Khan had fractured three vertebrae and a rib when he fell 15 feet from a forklift truck at a campaign event in Lahore on May ...
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Jodi Arias begs for life
Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, ...
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Is Pope Francis an exorcist
In this image made from video provided by APTN, Pope Francis lays his hands on the head of a young man, who then heaved deeply a half-dozen times, convulsed, and slumped in his wheelchair as the pontiff prayed over ...
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Kenya unfazed by Obama’s ‘snub’
Nairobi - Kenya said on Tuesday it was ';fine'; with United States President Barack Obama avoiding the country on an Africa tour next month, rejecting reports it was due to upcoming crimes against humanity trials of its ...
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Europe Needs Big Reforms Bank of Canadas Carney
Europe could face a decade of stagnation unless it makes big reforms and should heed the lessons of Japan, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said on Tuesday as he highlighted Japan's bold moves to bolster growth.In his final speech as Canadian central bank chief before taking over the Bank of England on July 1, Carney said Europe's recessionary economy is being held back by fiscal ...
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More attacks across Iraq leave 7 people dead
BAGHDAD--New attacks in Iraq killed seven people and wounded dozens on Tuesday, officials said, after a bloody day that claimed more than 100 lives across the ...
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Positive signs in Europe hard won
In early May, the European Commission issued its latest spring forecast and data showed that the eurozone economy was still in recession. Recently, many international agencies regarded Europe as the "short board" of the global economic recovery; the Italian election impasse and Cyprus banking crisis reignited euro ...
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Imran Khan home after 15ft fall
Pakistani cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan has left hospital about two weeks after he received serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift truck at a campaign ...
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Captured Egyptians freed in Sinai
Facebook page, saying the men's freedom came about as "the result of the efforts of military intelligence, in co-operation with the honourable tribal leaders and Sinai residents".The development came hours after the Egyptian military launched a massive sweep, searching for the seven in the volatile peninsula bordering ...
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Dozens feared dead after mile-wide tornado ravages Oklahoma
Rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared areas down to bare earth and claimed 24 lives, including nine ...
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Worlds biggest Russian nuke-submarines to be scrapped
Russia will decommission and scrap two of the world's largest submarines by 2018, a defence industry source has said.The Severstal and the Arkhangelsk, both Project 841 (Typhoon-class) ballistic-missile submarines, are based at Severodvinsk on the White Sea. They will be withdrawn from the Navy by this year-end and will begin to be dismantled."This process is to be completed before ...
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Chinas Li offers to help end Pakistans energy crisis
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves to the audience during an event organised by Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) in New Delhi May 21, ...
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Virtual Job Fair for The Middle East
Monster Gulf, an online career and recruitment solutions providers in the region announced its Virtual Job Fair for The Middle East, taking place from 26th – 30th ...
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Egypt TV 7 security personnel kidnapped in Sinai freed
Egyptian soldiers deployed at Rafah Crossing border between Egypt and Gaza Strip on May 21, 2013 as Cairo was intensifying efforts to secure release of seven security personnel captured in Sinai Peninsula week ...
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Tornado survivors search nears end
Rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared areas down to bare earth and claimed 24 lives, including nine children.Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an EF5, ranking it at the top of the enhanced Fujita scale used to ...
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Weiner Launches Bid for NYC Mayor
Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on. The ex-congressman whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago said in a YouTube video announcement late Tuesday that he's in the New York City mayoral race. He'd said last month he was considering it. "I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot of people down, but I also learned some ...
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Young objector challenges Israeli army
View Photo Associated Press/Oded Balilty - Left wing activists hold signs during a protest calling for the release of Israeli conscientious objector Natan Blanc from military prison, in front of the ministry of ...
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Dallas city core development hindered by roadways
The Dallas freeway loop is a series of highways that wrap round the center of Downtown Dallas, built at a time when the inter-connectivity of neighborhoods was not yet appreciated, but with changing attitudes, a series of projects are underway to enhance the appeal of downtown.
Downtown Dallas, it’s the heart of the city, which is the commercial hub of Dallas County and the third largest city in Texas and the ninth largest in the entire United States. Yet, this area’s full potential has been hindered by a zoning decision in the 1980s that saw major freeways routed through the city and created a complex ring of highways (the Dallas freeway loop) around the core downtown area. Read more
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