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Pope attacks mega-salaries and wealth gap in peace message

YoopyaDecember 13, 2013February 3, 2024

by YoopyaDecember 13, 2013February 3, 20240

(Reuters) – Pope Francis said in the first peace message of his pontificate that huge salaries and bonuses are symptoms of an economy based on...

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Finance watchdog approves Vatican reforms, urges bank oversight

YoopyaDecember 12, 2013December 31, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 12, 2013December 31, 20230

(Reuters) – The Vatican has made significant progress in financial reforms but still risks being used for money laundering unless it strengthens controls, a European...

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Spurned by president, EU embraces Ukraine protest

YoopyaDecember 12, 2013December 31, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 12, 2013December 31, 20230

BRUSSELS (AP) — Two weeks ago, the European Union’s foreign policy chief was at a summit in Lithuania, wooing Ukraine’s president with offers of preferential...

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Maker of faulty French breast implants given four years in jail

YoopyaDecember 10, 2013December 31, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 10, 2013December 31, 20230

(Reuters) – The founder of a French breast implant company was sentenced to four years in prison by a Marseille criminal court on Tuesday for...

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Ukraine protesters hold firm, defy riot police

YoopyaDecember 10, 2013December 31, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 10, 2013December 31, 20230

(Reuters) – About 2,000 anti-government protesters huddled by braziers in their main tented camp in snowbound Kiev on Tuesday, in defiance of riot police who...

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France’s Hollande to visit Central African Republic

YoopyaDecember 10, 2013December 31, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 10, 2013December 31, 20230

(Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande will visit the Central African Republic on Tuesday, according to a statement issued by his office, after boosting French...

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Champagne widows stamped grand legacy on wine

YoopyaDecember 9, 2013May 31, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 9, 2013May 31, 20230

REIMS, France (AP) — For Champagne to become the tipple it is today — popped at weddings, quaffed in casinos, sprayed by racing drivers and...

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Protesters fell Lenin statue, tell Ukraine’s president ‘you’re next’

YoopyaDecember 9, 2013December 31, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 9, 2013December 31, 20230

(Reuters) – Anti-government protesters toppled a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine’s capital and attacked it with hammers on Sunday in a...

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Ukraine’s Yanukovich heads for talks in Russia with Putin – news agency

YoopyaDecember 6, 2013December 31, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 6, 2013December 31, 20230

(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich is stopping off in Russia to have talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on his way back home from an official...

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Netflix meets with officials on French launch

YoopyaDecember 5, 2013January 31, 2024

by YoopyaDecember 5, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – Online video company Netflix met with the French president’s staff on Tuesday to discuss a possible launch of its streaming service in Europe’s...