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  • Who is New Iranian President Hassan Rowhani?


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    The news is full of stories proclaiming that new Iranian President Hassan Rowhani is a real moderate and that with him replacing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad there is opportunity for renewed relations and a solution to the Iranian nuclear program difficulties. Oh if only that were so. Even a cursory review of the pre-election ...
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  • Britain’s Got Talent 2013: David Walliams on hair-flick fun with PM David Cameron while of Simon Cowell, he says, “I want my Simon to be settled with a nice lady soon!”


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    Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams has revealed that when he’s told not to do something, he automatically does it, so when Prime Minister David Cameron asked him NOT to flick his hair – as per the actions of David’s Little Britain character Sebastian – David promptly flicked it! However, it seems the ...
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  • Back to banking union


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    The G8 produced little heat or light on the state of the world economy but if there was one clarion call it was for the euro zone to get on with forming a banking union – the last major initiative needed to draw a line under the euro zone debt crisis. With the European Central Bank effectively underwriting the ...
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  • Britain’s Got Talent 2013: The Luminites announce UK mini-tour, telling fans “We’re ridiculously excited!”


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    It’s been revealed today that Britain’s Got Talent finalists The Luminites have scheduled a UK tour, and having announced the plans to fans on Facebook, the band members wrote, “We’re ridiculously excited!” On the band’s official Facebook page, they wrote, “We are ridiculously excited to announce ...
    23 hours ago
  • DealBook: Britain Charges Former Trader in Libor Inquiry


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    Britain’s Serious Fraud Office said on Tuesday that it had filed eight fraud charges against a former UBS trader in connection with the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor.        
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  • Trader charged in manipulation of Libor rate


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    Britains Serious Fraud Office has charged a former trader with conspiracy to defraud in the rigging of a benchmark interest rate. The UKs fraud office says Tom Hayes, a former trader at UBS and Citigroup, was charged Tuesday as part of the investigation into the manipulation of the London interbank ...
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  • Britain charges ex-UBS trader over Libor rate scandal


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    Britains Serious Fraud Office said on Tuesday that former UBS trader Tom Hayes had become the first person to be charged in its probe into the Libor rate-rigging scandal that has rocked the banking sector. "Tom Hayes, a former trader at UBS...has today been charged with offences of conspiracy to defraud in connection ...
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  • Britain Charges Former Trader in Libor Inquiry


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    Britain’s Serious Fraud Office said on Tuesday that it had filed eight fraud charges against a former UBS trader in connection with the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor.
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  • Want To Get Out Of Jury Service?


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    Don’t wash for the week before the trial. Simples! A murder trial has collapsed after a female juror complained that the man sitting next to her in the court smelled . So…move him, or hand him a can of deodorant. Simples! No..? No: The trial into the death of 20-year-old Jamie Sanderson, who was stabbed ...
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  • BNP Leader Nick Griffin is One Sick Bastard


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    Pretty astonishing, really. At the Mirror UK, " Nigella Lawson attacked: BNP leader Nick Griffin tweets sick joke about shocking pictures ." If I had the opportunity to squeeze Nigella Lawson, her throat wouldnt be my first choice. — Nick Griffin MEP (@nickgriffinmep) June 17, 2013 More at GQ (UK), " Nick ...
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  • FDI into China rises in Jan-May: govt


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    Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China rose during the first five months of this year, the government announced on Tuesday, paced by strong increases from the European Union and United States. Incoming FDI, which excludes financial sectors, rose 1.0 per cent to US$47.6 billion (HK$369.4 billion) from January ...
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  • A Curate’s Egg of a Visit to Wisley


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    Our allotment had its annual outing to Wisley this week and it proved to be a very mixed bag. There were some superb plants including a magnificent Cornus ‘Venus’ with enormous white flowering bracts on Battlestone Hill, a vivid blue Moltkia petraea in the Alpine Garden, and a Dianthus erinaceus forming a huge ...
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  • EU, US leaders launch trade talks, France digs in on culture


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    The United States and the European Union launched talks on Monday to create one of the world’s most ambitious free-trade zones, as France again underscored its determination to protect its movies and culture. A trans-Atlantic free trade agreement was first considered three decades ago but was knocked down by France ...
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  • President Obama says NSA secret data gathering is ‘transparent’


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    President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview and called them transparent — even though they are authorised in secret. Read more from the original source: President Obama says NSA secret data gathering is ‘transparent’ The post President ...
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  • Hah! UK Spied On Allies At G20 Summit


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    Lord Snowden is at it again Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts, according to documents seen by the Guardian. Some delegates were tricked ...
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  • ‘NSA eavesdropped on Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev in G20 summit’


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    London: Even though the dust hasn’t settled over the recent expose of America’s NSA surveillance programmes, another stirring revelation came to the fore on Monday about the United Kingdom snooping upon the foreign delegates in G8 summit meetings in 2009. According to a report by the British newspaper The ...
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  • Britain’s Prime Minister Cameron rallies world leaders to G8 summit


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    British Prime Minister David Cameron says leaders gathering on Monday for the G8 summit in Northern Ireland should reach speedy agreement on trade and tax reforms, and draw inspiration from the host country’s ability to resolve its own stubborn conflict. Speaking hours ahead of the summit’s official opening at a ...
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  • DealBook: Co-operative Bank Turns to Bondholders to Fill Capital Shortfall


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    The British bank has announced plans to raise an additional $2.4 billion to replenish a capital shortfall by asking junior bondholders to swap their debt securities for shares.        
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  • The Next Land for Peace After the Palestinian West Bank Theft


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    The United States is joining the chorus of virtually the entire world in the song to sweetly lull Israel into a stupor which is necessary for them to surrender the entirety of the gains from the Six Day War in Judea and Samaria for the formation of a Palestinian Arab State. The song has sweet […]
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  • GB paracyclists win golds at UCI Road World Cup


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    Lora Turnham and Corrine Hall led the medal charge for Great Britain at the UCI Paracycling Road World Cup in Segovia, Spain.   The duo, racing in the blind/visually impaired events, collected gold in Friday’s time trial before adding the road race title on Saturday.   The man who started Great Britain’s 2012 ...
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