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<title>Medvedev will be scrutinized at G-8 for clues to how much power he wields in</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177182281</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 00:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  And from his high-profile hosting of a Russia-EU summit in Siberia to brash comments made  ...  boosting his popularity at home by badmouthing Britain and the United States for years. The  ...
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<title>EU widens Billiton-Rio Tinto antitrust probe into acquisition deal</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177182129</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 00:53 GMT</pubDate>
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... EU widens Billiton-Rio Tinto antitrust probe into acquisition  ...  reduced choice for European customers. Both are British-Australian dual-listed companies mining and marketing iron ore,  ...  other base metals and industrial minerals. Under European Union rules, the Commission now has until Nov.  ...
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<title>Cricket: Zimbabwe retains full-member status with ICC</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177182051</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 00:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  June as it has become clear that England would not grant the team visas to  ...  the ICC said in a statement. The British government withdrew its invitation last week for  ...  and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) with nearly 300,000 tickets sold, but it  ...
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<title>Lure of IPL sees England squad play for time over signing central contracts</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177181836</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 00:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  begin until September, by next week. The England and Wales Cricket Board&apos;s urgency is explained  ...  urgency is explained by the presence in London of several agents acting on behalf of  ...  any settlement before the Lord&apos;s Test.&quot; The ECB would prefer its players not to be  ...
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<title>Estonia</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177181690</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 00:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to mention a selection of US presidents, British prime ministers and David Beckham. Estonia has  ...  structure. A more conventional hotel is the London (00 372 730 5555; www.londonhotel.ee) in the  ...  EEK1,800 (90). Regent Holidays (0845 277 3317 www.regent-holidays.co.uk) offer a six-day tour for 785, divided  ...
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<title>It&apos;s back to the 1970s as economy grabs limelight</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177181474</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  stringently rationed and - in the US, Britain and other parts of the European Union  ...  4.25% last week while the Bank of England has called a halt to cuts in  ...  the eve of the summit the best British scientific assessment of the value, and pitfalls,  ...
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<title>Cricket: Zimbabwe opt our of World Cup</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177181121</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... Cricket: Zimbabwe opt our of World Cup ENGLAND can at last plan with confidence for  ...  Council annual meeting in Dubai, after the ECB last week banned Zimbabwe from their scheduled  ...  are aware of the decision of the British government not to allow their bilateral series  ...
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<title>Iran Responds Obliquely to Nuclear Plan</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177180913</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  letter with the five other governments  Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China  before  ...  Russia and China  before responding a British Foreign Office official said, We have received  ...  does not comply. In late June, the European Union agreed to new sanctions on Iran that  ...
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<title>Zimbabwe pull out of Twenty20</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177180739</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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... ENGLAND can at last plan with confidence for  ...  Council annual meeting in Dubai, after the ECB last week banned Zimbabwe from their scheduled  ...  are aware of the decision of the British government not to allow their bilateral series  ...
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<title>Football chiefs to tackle hidden trade in Africa&apos;s children</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177178492</link>
<pubDate>4 Jul 2008 23:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  on the recruitment practices of clubs in England and on the continent. The ultimate dream  ...  football fans at Arsenal&apos;s Emirates Stadium in London today that action is finally being taken  ...  of players under the age of 16. EU laws stipulate that players must hold a  ...
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<title>The education boom has proved a curse for the poor</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177178228</link>
<pubDate>4 Jul 2008 23:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  without inducing indolence. That remains a very British preoccupation. For the Joseph Rowntree Foundation&apos;s most  ...  poverty threshold. That is because in unequal Britain that median point is low, as half  ...  the very existence of poverty. Eurobarometer, measuring EU attitudes, finds we are the most punitive  ...
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<title>Empty vessels</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177178223</link>
<pubDate>4 Jul 2008 23:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  from 2014 as the oceanic embodiment of British power. The government is proud, the navy  ...  of carrier fleets in certain circumstances - Britain could not have fought the Falklands war  ...  led to silly tabloid headlines about an EU navy. But a shared fleet and a  ...
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<title>Survivor in an alien land - Kate Clanchy interview</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177177739</link>
<pubDate>4 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  on, over lunch in a hotel in London. &quot;I intuitively felt that here was somebody  ...  dangerously overloaded rubber dinghy, then on to England in a lorry. One of the Malsi  ...  boxes so Antigona could claim asylum in Britain. Clanchy, who says she always held &quot;liberal&quot;  ...
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<title>Iran responds to nuclear incentives package</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177177357</link>
<pubDate>4 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... In late June, the EU agreed to new sanctions on Iran in  ...  the incentives package - the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China - say  ...
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<title>Oil prices continue to rattle markets</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177177348</link>
<pubDate>4 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  euro failed to benefit much from the European Central Bank&apos;s quarter percentage point interest rate rise on  ...  region&apos;s government bonds rose Friday after the ECB President, Jean-Claude Trichet, said he had no  ...  less severe loss. Bradford  Bingley, a British mortgage lender, on Friday increased its rights  ...
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