... ording to BBC News. Marijuana has cultural roots in Jamaica but efforts to decriminalize it ran into fears of possible sanctions from the United States. The Caribbean island nation is thought to be th ...More
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... er Paris, BBC News reported Thursday. Drones were spotted over Paris landmarks for a second night running on Tuesday. Flying drones over Paris without a licence is illegal. Offenders face a maximum on ...More
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... vernment, BBC News reported Thursday. The proposals follow moves to curb foreign investment in agricultural land. The government of Prime Minister Tony Abbott wants foreign investors who buy Australia ...More
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... ording to BBC News. The list must be approved by international creditors on Tuesday for the debt-wracked nation to obtain a four-month loan extension. Greece had previously delayed presenting the refo ...More
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... watchdog, BBC News reported Tuesday. Reporters for the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4's Dispatches posing as representatives of a fake Chinese firm separately approached Rifkind and Straw. Straw was re ...More
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... abilise", BBC News reported. "Europe is just as interested in that as Russia. No one wants conflict on the edge of Europe, especially armed conflict," he said. Putin said the Minsk deal had become an ...More
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... nt group, BBC News reported Tuesday, citing Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. Meanwhile, France has deployed an aircraft carrier off Bahrain to be used against the extremist. Planes from the Charle ...More
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... devices, BBC News reported. Lenovo said it had disabled the program because of customer complaints. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG/RA ...More
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... ording to BBC News. The reform will include an overhaul of the country's tax regime to crack down on tax evasion and streamlining of the civil service, Greek Minister of State Nikos Pappas said. Pappa ...More
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... illness, BBC News reported. Italian President Sergio Mattarella paid tribute to Ferrero, calling him a "born entrepreneur". Observers noted that the tycoon breathed his last on Valentine's Day, when ...More
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... recovery, BBC cited officials as saying. During his absence, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean will be in charge of the government. "I'm all set for my op tomorrow, and so are my surgeon and medica ...More
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... ns there, BBC News reported Friday. The company said new recruits should not be made to pay any hiring fees. The bonded labor practice came to light after labor rights group China Labor Watch (CLW) qu ...More
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... country, BBC News reported Thursday. Prime Minister Thein Sein had persuaded parliament to grant "white cards" to Rohingya Muslims to enable them to vote. More than one million Rohingya live in Myanm ...More
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... damages, BBC News reported. Each of the young women who had been swapped at birth will get 400,000 euros, three of the parents will get 300,000 each, and three siblings will get 60,000 each. Although ...More
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Counter-terrorism police in Sydney have arrested two men who were allegedly planning a public beheading in an Islamic State-linked plot, BBC reported. The two men, aged 24 and 25, have been charged wi ...More
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... in Lille, BBC News reported Wednesday. He said prosecutors had greatly exaggerated the frequency of his "licentious evenings", saying there had only been 12 in three years. Strauss-Kahn said he did no ...More
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... ts users, BBC News reported. This is possible if the owner uses the TV set's voice activation feature. “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that ...More
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... TR fleet, BBC News reported Monday. "All 71 ATR pilots will take part in proficiency tests carried out by the Civil Aviation Administration and third-party professionals for an estimated four days," T ...More
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China's authorities have seized 7,600 toilet rolls and 20,000 packets of tissue on which are printed the image of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, BBC News reported. The Democratic Party, wh ...More
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HSBC, Europe's largest bank, helped wealthy clients evade paying millions of pounds in tax, the BBC current affairs television program Panorama reported. Panorama said the findings were based on thous ...More
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