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Obama’s top security adviser to travel to Russia

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top security aide will be in Moscow this week for meetings with Russian officials on the U.S.-Russia relationship and other issues, the White House said on Wednesday.

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World Bank also aids developed countries: Zoellick

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Wednesday gave an impassioned defense of the institution he has run for five years and urged his successor to focus on developing countries as clients rather than aid recipients.

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Sarkozy fails to down Hollande in French vote duel

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Francois Hollande clashed repeatedly in their only television debate but the conservative incumbent failed to land a knockout blow to shake his challenger's lead for Sunday's runoff.

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Libya drops ban on religion-based parties

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya has dropped a ban against parties based on religion, tribe or ethnicity, an official said, after the law irked Islamist parties in the run up to the first free election in June.

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Russia Approves Gas-Tax Increase

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by WSJ.com: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

Russia's government approved tax increases nearly doubling rates for state-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom and more than quadrupling duties to be paid by the country's independent producers by 2015.

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Russia to make hi-tech case against NATO missile shield

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it was fully committed to completing an antimissile shield in Europe even as Moscow promised to use computer modeling to show an international conference how the NATO system threatens its security.

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France Set for Presidential Debate

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by WSJ.com: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

After months of remote confrontation, President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist candidate François Hollande are set to face off in the only debate of the presidential election campaign.

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News Corp board supports Murdoch after UK report

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

(Reuters) - News Corp's board of directors came out in full support of Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday, some 36 hours after a British parliamentary committee had described him as unfit to run a major international business.

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Iran’s Oil Output Sinks

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by WSJ.com: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

Iran's oil output has reached its lowest level in 20 years, independent data showed, as the impact of sanctions deepens.

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Poland says boycotting Ukraine would push it towards Russia

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

WARSAW (Reuters) - The West should not boycott Ukraine during the European soccer championship in June as that would hamper its European ambitions and force the ex-Soviet country back into the arms of Russia, Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski said on Wednesday.