Smith Wesson gun maker hits record financials year after US shootings
Friday, 14 June 2013 20:30
Published time: June 14, 2013 18:30
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The leading US gun maker Smith & Wesson has reported all–time high gun sales in the 2013 fiscal year. The results come at a time when gun controls are the focus of heated debate after a series of mass shootings.

The arms...

 
French cultural concerns could clog up the world’s biggest free trade agreement
Friday, 14 June 2013 18:04
Published time: June 14, 2013 16:04
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France has said it won’t join with the EU in talks over liberalizing trade between the bloc and the USA, unless movies, television and developing online media are made an exception to the free trade agreement.

Paris entered...

 
Eurozone unemployment leaves 19.4mn jobless, 7 year high
Friday, 14 June 2013 15:51
Published time: June 14, 2013 13:51
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Just days after French President Francis Hollande announced the euro crisis was over, employment across the Eurozone collectively shrank 0.5 percent in the first quarter, bringing levels to their lowest in seven years.

A record...

 
LNG trade falls for first time in 30 years
Friday, 14 June 2013 15:26
Published time: June 14, 2013 13:26
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In 2012 the global trade in liquefied natural gas (LNG) has suffered its first annual drop after three consecutive decades of expansion.

The data published in the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2013 shows the LNG trade...

 
‘American dictate’: Swiss Parliament split on banking secrecy law
Friday, 14 June 2013 12:23
Published time: June 14, 2013 10:23
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The Swiss parliament has only a week left to vote on a bill which would end years of banking secrecy and allow Americans access to tracking account information. Now a parliamentary committee has recommended the lower house ditch the...

 
Mr. Prokhorov does not want Moscow
Friday, 14 June 2013 10:18
The election campaign in Moscow has suffered its first loss. The leader of Civil Platform, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov left the fight for the post of mayor of Moscow. He is not the only one. Prokhorov said that his sister Irina would not be running for mayor either. There will be no candidates from the Civil Platform...
 
Russia won't join the gay march
Thursday, 13 June 2013 09:22
The vast majority of the Russians (88 percent) support the ban on the propaganda of homosexuality. A relative majority of Russians today believe that non-traditional sexual orientation should be punishable as a criminal offense (42 percent). In 2007 the number was only 19%. 25% of respondents currently believe that homosexuality should be...
 
Russia to create Mediterranean fleet to protect Syria
Wednesday, 12 June 2013 11:21
During the Cold War, the Mediterranean was the most important area of ​​strategic struggle between the West and the USSR. Many years have passed, a lot has happened, but the importance of the Mediterranean Sea has remained the same. Russia, a successor of the USSR, has lost some of its influence in the region over the years...
 
Stalin's personal archives exposed
Tuesday, 11 June 2013 16:44
About 100,000 documents from the archives of Joseph Stalin and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union became available to the general public. The legendary leader is presented in the materials as both a statesman and the man he was in every day life. The materials were published on a new website launched by the Russian Archives...
 
Putin's sacrifice for Russia
Monday, 10 June 2013 09:51
Last week President Putin and his wife formally announced their divorce. Soon thereafter, the obtuse western media reared its ugly head in tabloid form again forgetting even their own heroes of the D-Day Normandy invasion. These perennial adolescents give their opinions as fact and disregard history or anything from the past as most drug addicts...
 
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