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McDowell looking for French hat-trick
AFP, Published on 12/03/2015
» PARIS - Graeme McDowell will return to Le Golf National course in Versailles in July in a bid to become just the second player to win the French Open three times...
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Hungary to replace Mexico as 2017 championship hosts
AFP, Published on 12/03/2015
» BUDAPEST - Hungary will host the 2017 world swimming championships, the sports governing body, FINA, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced in Budapest...
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Flu spreading from China, India
AFP, Published on 12/03/2015
» PARIS - Scientists sounded warnings Wednesday over H7N9 bird flu in China and the H1N1 strain of swine flu in India that have jointly claimed more than 1,700...
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Dutch court nixes data storage law, says privacy breached
AFP, Published on 12/03/2015
» THE HAGUE - A Dutch court on Wednesday struck down a law requiring telecoms and Internet service providers to store their clients' private phone and email data,...
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Minute's silence for French stars killed in crash
AFP, Published on 12/03/2015
» PARIS - A minute's silence will be observed ahead of football and basketball matches in France this weekend with a round of applause before rugby games in tribute...
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Matic, Oscar get Chelsea nod to face PSG
AFP, Published on 12/03/2015
» LONDON - Midfielders Nemanja Matic and Oscar were both named in the Chelsea team to face Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League last 16 second-leg match...
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Dutch state must pay Indonesia war widows, children
AFP, Published on 12/03/2015
» THE HAGUE - The Dutch state must compensate widows and children of men executed by colonial troops in the late 1940s, a court in The Hague ruled on Wednesday,...
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Women plan 'march on North Korea'
AFP, Published on 12/03/2015
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - Two Nobel Peace laureates and American feminist Gloria Steinem are among a group of 30 women planning to march across the demilitarised...
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Astronauts board Soyuz to return to Earth
AFP, Published on 12/03/2015
» MIAMI - Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut on Wednesday boarded a Soyuz space capsule in preparation for their return to Earth after spending six...
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US, Cuba re-establish direct phone link
AFP, Published on 12/03/2015
» HAVANA - The United States and Cuba have re-established a direct telephone link, the Cuban state telecommunications company said Wednesday, in the latest step...