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BUCE to hold first futures trading in 2012
May 19, 2012
MINSK, 18 May (BelTA) – The Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange plans to hold the first futures trading in 2012, BUCE First Deputy Chairman of the Board Viktor Vladyko told media on 18 May.
According to the source, in the near future the commodity exchange plans to develop the forward market, which provides for trading in futures and option…
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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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US names first ambassador to Myanmar in 22 years
May 18, 2012
WASHINGTON – The US has finally rewarded the Myanmar administration for its political reforms by deciding to lift economic sanctions against the former military ruled Southeast Asian nation and naming …
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Heyliger breaks ground for first new Belvedere ‘Villa’
May 18, 2012
PHILIPSBURG–Minister of Public Housing Theo Heyliger said Wednesday that he was thankful to be able to make a dent, though just a ten-per-cent dent, in the need for social homes in St. Maarten.
Heyliger was speaking at the groundbreaking for the first of 18 homes in 13 buildings in Belvedere: the so called “Villas” in Belvedere.
Dominican First Lady, VP candidate leaves country in haste, media report
May 18, 2012
Santo Domingo.- In a surprising development Dominican Republic’s First Lady and ruling PLD party vice presidential candidate Margarita Cedeño arrived Friday at Las Americas Airport to board a private flight out of the country, less than 48 hours prior to the presidential election….
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First singer of Britten’s ‘War Requiem’ dies
May 18, 2012
German baritone singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, hailed as one of the greatest lyrical vocalists of the last century, has died at the age of 86, a close associate said on Friday….
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Tourist arrivals in first 4 months jump 7.35% to 1.9M
May 18, 2012
Santo Domingo.- During the first four months this year the number of visitors continued to rise, with nearly 1.9 million nonresident passengers, a 7.35% growth compared with the January-April 2011 period. …
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DIPLOMACY: Hollande to meet Obama for first time
May 18, 2012
French President François Hollande is to meet with US President Barack Obama for the first time on Friday before a G8 summit on Europe’s debt crisis. The two are expected to discuss issues ranging from austerity to troop withdrawal from Afghanistan….
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Japan launches rocket with first commercial foreign satellite
May 18, 2012
The HII-A rocket lifted off from a remote southwestern Japan island carrying the South Korean satellite and three Japanese satellites….
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National › Japan launches first commercial satellite
May 18, 2012
Japan successfully put a South Korean satellite into space Friday, in its first foray into the European- and Russian-dominated world of commercial launches.
The H-IIA rocket took off from the southern island of Tanegashima on schedule at 1:39 a.m., according to live images relayed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency……
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