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The extent of support in Britain for the far-right British National Party (BNP) was revealed Wednesday with the publication of the personal details of more than 12,000 members and supporters on an internet site.
The list, published on the website Wikileak, gave the names, addresses, and in some cases the professions, of members who include serving and former... |
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Harald zur Hausen, a German virologist who shared the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday, was honoured for his research which led to the development of a vaccine against cervical cancer.
Born in Gelsenkirchen in the West of Germany, zur Hausen studied medicine in Bonn, Hamburg and Dusseldorf. After graduating in December 1960 he...
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The British government said Monday it was seeking clarification from Germany as to the nature and extent of the pledge to protect private savings.
A government spokesman said Prime Minister Gordon Brown would be speaking to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the telephone later Monday to hear details of the German plan.
"Our...
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The Austrian government is to raise guarantees on savings deposits to prevent funds from flowing to Germany but wants to coordinate with other European Union members on the issue, Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Wilhelm Molterer said Monday.
Molterer initially made his proposal on television late Sunday after similar moves by...
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The findings of a virus that causes cervical cancer and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were awarded Monday with the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
German Harald zur Hausen was awarded for discovering the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer, while French scientists Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc...
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's promise that personal savings at German banks are safe is a political assurance, her spokesman said in Berlin Monday, implying a statutory insurance of deposits was not planned.
"It's a political statement that can be relied on and is decisive," said Ulrich Wilhelm. The German government and its...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday congratulated Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of the retrovirus that causes AIDS.
After extending his "heartiest congratulations," in his own name and that of the nation, Sarkozy noted, in a...
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Computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) will cut 1,400 jobs in Germany over the next two years, a company spokesman said Monday in Boeblingen.
The announcement followed HP's purchase of IT-service provider Electronic Data Systems (EDS). About 1150 former EDS and another 250 HP employees were to lose their jobs over the next two years, the...
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A border guard was shot dead in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia on Monday, local agencies reported, while Russian troops said an explosion hit its convoy in a sign of ongoing violence in the EU-monitored border zones.
Abkhaz police chief for the Gali district, Laurens Kogonia, said border guard Mukhran Ashuba died in a shootout...
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German researcher Harald zur Hausen on Monday said he was excited to hear the news he had won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Zur Hausen jointly awarded for discovering the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer, along with French scientists Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, who discovered the human immunodeficiency...
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Nearly a quarter of the world's mammals are threatened by extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned Monday.
The congress, which brought together some 8,000 United Nations officials, experts and business representatives from 160 countries in the Spanish city of Barcelona, made public an alarming...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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