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EU slips up with olive oil ban, reverses course
The European Commission has torn up new rules on how restaurants should serve olive oil less than a week after unveiling them, following widespread ridicule and accusations of unwanted interference. Last week, the Commission said restaurants would be banned from serving oil to diners in refillable glass jugs or dipping bowls from next year. Instead, to...
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Money has to serve, not to rule - Pope
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Car bombers kill 12 in Baghdad
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1 million evacuated in Bangladesh storm
The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh today, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds and forcing the evacuation of more than a million people. The eye of the storm is expected to reach...
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Six killed by Texas tornadoes
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Nuclear talks with Iran fail
The United Nations’ nuclear agency failed to persuade Iran yesterday to let it resume an investigation into suspected atomic bomb research, leaving the high-stakes diplomacy in deadlock. With Iran focused on a presidential election next month,...
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UN urges support for Syria opposition
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Nigerian troops on new offensive against Islamists
Nigeria launched a military campaign yesterday to flush Islamist militants out of their bases in remote border areas, after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the northeast. Nigerian troops deployed in large numbers, part...
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Disgraced Cardinal is to leave Scotland for prayers, penance
Disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned as head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland after admitting to sexual misconduct, will leave his country for months of “prayer and penance”, the Vatican said yesterday. A brief Vatican statement...
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N. Korea’s nuclear arms work delayed
Increasingly tough financial sanctions, an arms embargo and other international restrictions on trade with North Korea have significantly delayed expansion of Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear arms program, according to a confidential report by a UN panel...
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DiCaprio goes green
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Christie’s auction house raised €30 million through a charity art auction and donations, Christie’s said, with proceeds to benefit environmental and conservation causes. The 33 works in The 11th Hour Auction, organised by...
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Jolie is ‘heroic’, says partner Pitt
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HMS Edinburgh’s farewell to its namesake
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Fossil deepens dinosaur mystery
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World briefs
A 1980s edition of The Beano comic spotted in an episode of Dr Who has been reprinted for its fans, allowing them “to travel back in time”. Matt Smith, who plays the Doctor, was seen reading a Beano summer special from 1981 in an episode aired on...
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Dad was unaware of Jolie op
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HSBC Holdings to cull up to 14,000 more jobs in war on costs
HSBC will redouble cost-cutting efforts, including axing up to 14,000 more jobs globally, as Europe's largest bank seeks to drive earnings and dividend growth in the face of muted revenue. London-headquartered HSBC is seeking up to $3 billion in...
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Lion Air pilots criticised over Bali crash
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Goodluck declares state of emergency
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Workers killed in building collapse
A four-storey building under construction in Rwanda has collapsed, killing at least six workers and injuring dozens more people, police said. Authorities are searching for survivors after the building collapsed in the eastern district of Nyagatare,...
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UN set to approve Syria resolution
The UN General Assembly is poised to approve an Arab-backed resolution calling for a political transition in Syria and strongly condemning president Bashar Assad's regime for its escalating use of heavy weapons, UN diplomats said. The 193-member...