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IANS 24 February 2016
Havana : The US Treasury Department has fined a French firm for doing business in US equipment with Cuba in violation of the United State trade embargo against the Caribbean island nation.   CGG Services, a company specialising in geophysical services, was slapped with a fine of...

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IANS 23 February 2016
Jakarta : Indonesia has sunk 30 impounded foreign and local boats in its campaign against illegal fishing in its waters.   Among the 30 scuttled empty vessels, 11 were identified from Vietnam, eight from Malaysia, seven from the Philippines and three from Indonesia, Xinhua news agency...

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IANS 20 February 2016
Washington : The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday announced that it selected Christine Lagarde to serve as its leader for a second five-year term.   Lagarde, the sole candidate nominated for the post of the IMF chief, will start the second term from June 5.   The...

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Vatsal Srivastava (IANS) 18 February 2016
Recall that the median forecast was for three Fed rate hikes in 2016 only two months ago   Global financial markets have started to price in a global recession since the beginning of 2016. The Fed raised rates for the first time in almost a decade but the price action has been...

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IANS 18 February 2016
Washington : Google's Indian-American chief executive Sundar Pichai sided with rival Apple in its battle over a court order to help the FBI access information on the encrypted iPhone used by a Pakistani-American shooter in San Bernardino.   Pichai Wedenesday directed followers to...

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IANS 16 February 2016
Perth : A West Australian mining firm has found a record breaking 404-carat diamond believed worth over $14 million.   According to reports on Tuesday, the Lucapa Diamond Company, based in Perth but operating in the African nation of Angola, found the 404-carat diamond at its Lulo...

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IANS 16 February 2016
Moscow : At least one person was killed and 39 were reported trapped after a powerful gas explosion triggered the collapse of a five-storey residential building in Russia's Yaroslavl city early Tuesday.   Preliminary information showed that about 10 flats on the first to fifth floors...

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IANS 11 February 2016
New York : A sequential decline in its monthly active users (MAUs) base triggered a sharp fall for Twitter shares in the after-hours trade, as the company announced its fourth quarter results on Wednesday.   The micro-blogging site reported 305 million monthly active users for the...

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IANS 10 February 2016
London : In another setback to Facebook in Europe, the French data protection authority has ordered the social networking giant to stop sending user data to the US and comply with the European data protection law.   According to a report in technology website Tech Crunch, Facebook has...

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Justin Elliott (ProPublica) 10 February 2016
The charity has its worst fundraising year since at least 2000   The American Red Cross ran a deficit of $159 million last fiscal year, battered by a steep drop in fundraising and its struggling blood banking division, according to newly released financial statements.   Former...

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IANS 03 February 2016
San Francisco : US tech giant Yahoo announced cutting the workforce by about 15 percent, slashing properties and exploring "strategic alternatives" as part of an aggressive plan to turn around the struggling company.   The announcement on Tuesday came as the company released its...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 02 February 2016
TINA.org also calls on the BBB to re-evaluate company's A-plus rating   TINA.org has put five major TV networks on notice regarding widespread commercials for Prevagen, a purported brain supplement whose unfounded claims to improve memory in 90 days prompted TINA.org to file a...

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IANS 01 February 2016
Beijing : Chinese authorities have arrested 21 people involved in an online finance scheme in which some 900,000 investors lost about 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion), the media reported on Monday.   The 21 worked for Ezubao, China's largest such online financing business. The platform...

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IANS 01 February 2016
London : Chef Benoit Violier, whose Swiss restaurant was named the best in the world in December 2015, has been found dead at his home, the media reported on Monday.   Violier, 44, ran the Restaurant de l'Hotel de Ville in Crissier, near the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, BBC...

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IANS 25 January 2016
New York : Ten doctors at CHI Health Centre in the Omaha city of Nebraska state in the US are using Google Glass - personal assistant tool to help them take better care of patients by reducing the cumbersome paperwork.   Google Glass allows a remote scribe to take detailed notes for...

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Vikas Datta (IANS) 25 January 2016
Jaipur : The West is relinquishing its predominant role in global politics and economics to the East - Asia spreading from the Middle to the Far East - in this century and the significance of the ancient "Silk Roads", which were once the hub of commerce, culture and knowledge, is slowly...

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IANS 23 January 2016
Washington : A monster snowstorm that could bury the American capital under more than two and a half feet of snow swept across the US EastCoast with 85 million residents in its path, bringing the region to a virtual standstill.   Governors in at least 10 states -- Maryland, Virginia,...

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Vikas Datta (IANS) 22 January 2016
Jaipur : The western intervention in Afghanistan was flawed from the very start in its rationale, goals and implementation, which accounts for why their over a decade long military involvement ended without securing peace in the country, and may have made it more dangerous, says British...

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IANS 19 January 2016
Tennis World No.1 Novak Djokovic has confirmed that he was once indirectly offered 110,000 pounds to throw a first round match at a tournament in Russia.   The Serbian tennis star, however, said match-fixing was not prevalent at the top level of tennis, as allegations of corruption...

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IANS 14 January 2016
Washington : Nikki Haley's call to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to tamp down on his anti-immigrant rhetoric won praise from Republicans and Democrats alike, but the real estate mogul was not amused. Supporters of Trump were angered that Haley called him out and many took...

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