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Northern Ireland healthcare firm lands business in Brazil
Arlene Foster attended South America's largest healthcare exhibition.The company currently employs around 110 people and exports to 55 countries including the ...
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Capstone Companies Expands Eco-i-Lite International Presence in Latin America and Taiwan
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., May 23, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capstone Companies, Inc. ( ), a leader in the design and manufacture of specialty power failure lighting solutions and innovator of consumer safety and security products for the Hospitality, Retail and Institutional channels, announced today that it has received a significant Eco-i-Lite order from the Company's Latin American ...
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UAE President and Vice President Congratulate Argentina and Eritrea on National Day
May 23, 2013 - 02:22 - WAM ABU DHABI, May 23th, 2013 (WAM)-- Congratulatory cables were sent today by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and to the President of Eritrea, Isaias Afewerki, on the occasion of their respective countries' National ...
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British PM Seeks Answers to Terrorist Attack
British Prime Minister David Cameron was meeting Thursday with his top security advisers, one day after a man was butchered to death in broad daylight on a south London street near an army ...
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Syrian Opposition Meets on Proposed Peace Talks
The main Syrian opposition coalition is meeting in Istanbul for three days of talks that will include its potential involvement in proposed peace talks with the Syrian ...
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UN Chief Arrives in Goma After Renewed Fighting
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in the eastern Democratic Republic Congo, where renewed clashes between rebels and army troops broke out this ...
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May 23 The PM’s P-tactics Prorogue and Peru – and other letters to the editor
Prime Minister Stephen Harper inspects an honour guard at Government Palace in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN ...
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Brazil president says asylum offer to adulterous Iran woman is humanitarian gesture
The decision to give refuge to a convicted Iranian woman should be seen as a humanitarian act without political motives, said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. "I made the offer for humanitarianism, instead of politics," Xinhua quoted da Silva, as saying while referring to the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who has been convicted of adultery and sentenced to ...
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NU’s Dindin Santiago gets V-League first conference MVP plum
MANILA, Philippines -- National University’s Dindin Santiago was adjudged the Most Valuable Player of the Conference ahead of the best-of-three finals series on Thursdayin the 10th Shakey’s V-League First Conference. Santiago was also this conference’s Best Scorer while three more others from the Lady Bulldogs’ side were given individual awards. NU’s Myla Pablo ...
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Pakistan Blast Targets Security Personnel
Officials in southwest Pakistan say an explosion has ripped through a vehicle used by security forces, killing at least 12 people -- 11 security personnel and a civilian. Nearly two dozen people were wounded in the assault. Police officials say a remote controlled car bomb targeted a vehicle carrying police special forces in Quetta Thursday. Authorities say the bomb contained about 100 ...
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Twin Bomb Attacks in Niger Wound 13
Officials in Niger say a military base and a French-owned uranium mine were hit by separate bomb attacks early Thursday, wounding an unknown number of ...
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Kerry Continues Israeli-Palestinian Peace Push
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is holding another round of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders aimed at getting the two sides to restart their stalled peace ...
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Japan Shares Plunge 7 Following Negative Chinese Data
Japanese share prices Thursday experienced their worst one-day decline in two years, following the release of unexpectedly negative Chinese manufacturing ...
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Infants to get free milk in Paraguay
ASUNCION, Paraguay -- Paraguay exports enough soy, wheat and corn to feed 80 million people, more than 10 times its population, and its rivers provide abundant fresh water. But 14 percent of its children suffer chronic malnutrition, and many others lack clean drinking ...
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Cristina Fernandez administration limits overseas dollar extractions to a minimum
The measures are the result of a request from the Argentine Central bank and were announced late Wednesday. Further details are expected on Thursday. The new credit card conditions are geared to impede the flight of foreign currency from Argentina, particularly the so called "Colonia dollar" which refers to day-trips to neighbouring Uruguay to extract greenbacks. Although this ...
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UPDATE 1-Caixabank may sell 10 pct of Mexicos Inbursa
Thu May 23, 2013 3:31am EDT MADRID May 23 (Reuters) - Spain's Caixabank said on Thursday it was considering selling around 10 percent of Mexico's Grupo Financiero Inbursa, worth $1.6 billion, to reduce its stake by half. Spain's biggest domestic lender has close business ties with tycoon Carlos Slim who controls Grupo Financiero Inbursa, Mexico's sixth-largest bank by ...
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Latam Africa surges ensure SABMiller profit growth
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - SABMiller, the world's second biggest brewer, reported profit growth in line with expectations thanks to a surge in earnings in Latin America and Africa and said its markets should be broadly unchanged in the coming months.The maker of Grolsch, Peroni and Pilsner Urquell, said on Thursday adjusted earnings per share rose 11 percent to 238.7 U.S. cents in the year to the ...
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Cuba bridgade information session
Find out about the 31st Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba (an annual trip organised through the Australia Cuba Friendship Societies), 29 Dec 2013 - 20 Jan 2014. Lotteries House, 2 Delhi Street, West Perth Are you interested in: Agricultural sustainability? Food security? Global social justice? Universal health care? Education? Organic Gardening? Socialism in practice? The brigade offers the ...
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Mexico Germany vow to promote tourism
Mexico and Germany pledged on Wednesday to promote bilateral tourism, air connectivity and the flow of visitors, Mexico's Ministry of Tourism said in a ...
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SABMiller earnings rise thanks to Latin America Africa surges
news ) , the world's second biggest brewer, reported higher full-year profits thanks to a sharp increase in earnings in Latin America and Africa. SABMiller, the maker of Miller, Grolsch, Peroni and Pilsner Urquell, said on Thursday adjusted earnings per share increased by 11 percent to 238.7 U.S. cents, almost matching the Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S average forecast of 239 cents. The London- ...
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Globovisions new owners say news channel will contribute to peace not conflict in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela - The new owners of Venezuela's only television channel to take critical stands against the government say they will, in their words, "contribute to a climate of peace and not of conflict." That comment came after a meeting with socialist President Nicolas Maduro, and it was seen by some people as a sign Globovision will tone down its anti-government line. A ...
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Mexican investigators seize boxes filled with cash at office of ex-aide to former governor
MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities on Wednesday seized five boxes filled with cash as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement by a former governor of southern Tabasco state, in what could become the latest test for President Enrique Pena Nieto to act against corruption. Tabasco state prosecutor Fernando Valenzuela said bundles of 500- and 1,000-peso bills were found in an office of ...
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IP Theft Costs US $300 Billion Per Year Report
A private advisory panel says growing intellectual property theft, mainly by China, is costing the United States more than $300 billion each ...
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UN Nuclear Agency Says Iran Expanded Nuclear Activity
The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has taken a significant step toward building a reactor that Western experts say could provide a second path to producing material for a nuclear ...
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Argentina’s ex-dictator Videla dead at 87
General Jorge Rafael Videla, who headed the bloody military junta that seized power in Argentina in 1976, died last Friday in a Marcos Paz prison cell. The coup that toppled the government of President Isabel Peron unleashed both economic devastation as well as mass repression against the working class for seven years (the "dirty war") until it fell following the defeat of ...
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Cuba and Venezuela pushing ahead with major undersea project
Submarine cables are the information gateways of the modern world and Cuba will soon be linked to Venezuela and Jamaica by one, which will increase the efficiency of information flows between the countries by over 3000 times.
Work on an underwater cable that will link Cuba, Venezuela and Jamaica is underway with the survey ship RV Ridley Thomas mapping the ocean floor between the countries to determine the exact path of the cable. Read more
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