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Bodemeister favored over Derby champ
May 19, 2012
While Kentucky Derby runner-up Bodemeister is the oddsmakers’ favorite for Saturday’s 137th Preakness, the trainer of Derby winner I’ll Have Another is confident of victory.
The second jewel in American horse racing’s Triple Crown is 1/16th of a mile shorter than the 1 1/4-mile Derby and Bodemeister was leading until he tired in the closin…
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May 19, 2012
Superboot Morne Steyn will play his 100th Super Rugby game for table-topping Northern Bulls this weekend as Wallaby playmaker Quade Cooper makes his first appearance for the Queensland Reds this year.
The Bulls, who lead the Western Stormers by one point in the South African Conference, begin their New Zealand tour against the Otago Highla…
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Japan ready to help in euro crisis at G8 talks
May 19, 2012
Japan said that it stood ready to extend help in stemming the eurozone’s debt crisis as the Group of Eight major industrialized nations opened crisis talks.
Japan, the world’s third largest economy and only Asian power in the elite G8 club, has already been a major contributor to an IMF firewall aimed at holding back Europe’s woes with a $ …
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Motorola Mobility smartphones face US import ban
May 19, 2012
A US commission sided with Microsoft by moving to ban the import of Android-powered Motorola smartphones based on patent infringement complaints by the software colossus.
The ruling issued by the International Trade Commission (ITC) on Friday will take effect in late July if President Barack Obama does not overrule it.
“The Commissio…
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New lawsuit takes aim at Facebook privacy
May 19, 2012
A new lawsuit consolidating several complaints about Facebook’s privacy policies was filed Friday in California, seeking damages for US users of the social network for improper tracking.
The class action suit alleges that Facebook was improperly tracking Internet use of its members even after they logged out of their accounts.
It con…
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France’s unwed first lady pushes frontiers of G8 protocol
May 18, 2012
Valerie Trierweiler pushed the frontiers of US diplomatic protocol on Friday as she took her first steps as France’s new — and unmarried — first lady ahead of the G8 and NATO summits.
The domestic partner of Francois Hollande — they’ve been a couple since 2007 — skipped a lunch Friday between the newly elected French president and Secr…
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FRANCE – SWEDEN: IKEA fires four managers for spying on staff, clients
May 18, 2012
Swedish furniture manufacturer IKEA said Friday that it was firing its risk management director and three former managers at its French division over allegations they paid for access to secret police files on staff and customers….
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DIPLOMACY: Hollande affirms France’s early Afghan exit in US talks
May 18, 2012
In his first talks with US President Barack Obama on Friday, French President François Hollande said he would honour a campaign pledge to withdraw French troops from Afghanistan this year but said France would support the NATO mission in other ways….
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IAEA chief Amano to visit Iran on Monday
May 18, 2012
The chief of the UN nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, will visit Iran on Monday and meet Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, the IAEA said.
Amano’s visit comes ahead of a crunch meeting in Baghdad on Wednesday between Tehran and a group of world powers, to discuss concerns over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons drive.
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Facbook hits the Stock Exchange
May 18, 2012
The world’s leading social network Facebook makes the richest-ever share offering for a technology firm, giving it a dizzying value of $ 104 billion at its initial public offering (IPO) of stock.
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