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10 years ago+18 18 0Amazon workers face ‘illness risk’
Prof Michael Marmot was shown secret filming of night shifts involving up to 11 miles of walking - where an undercover worker was expected to collect orders every 33 seconds.
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10 years ago+11 11 0Apple loses bid for U.S. ban on Samsung smartphone sales
A U.S. judge on Thursday rejected Apple's request for a permanent sales ban in the United States against some older Samsung smartphones, a key setback for the iPhone maker.
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10 years ago+16 16 0Great Barrier Reef Faces 'Irreversible' Damage
The Great Barrier Reef may be in serious trouble. Unless immediate action is taken, the famous coral reef system will be unable to recover from the "irreversible" damage that climate change will wreak on it by 2030, a new report out of .. ...
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10 years ago+24 24 0Bill Criminalizing 'False Anti-Russian Information' in the Works, Report Says
The Moscow Times is a daily English-language newspaper featuring objective, reliable news on business, politics and culture in Moscow, in Russia and the former Soviet Union (CIS).
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10 years ago+13 13 0Russian soldiers training in Canada given 24 hours to leave country
Nine Russian soldiers who were participating in military exercises in Canada have been expelled from the country, as Ottawa continues to denounce Russia’s military intervention in Crimea.
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10 years ago+16 16 0Fifa Urged to Ban Israel over Shooting of Palestinian Boy Footballers
Israeli checkpoint soldiers end two teenagers' football careers with bullets
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10 years ago+18 18 0Israel cuts off water supply to 45,000 Palestinians
Some 45,000 Palestinians living in the Shuafat refugee camp and the suburbs of Ras Shehadeh, Ras Khamis, As-Salam and Anata in Jerusalem have had their water cut off for nearly three days.
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10 years ago+16 16 0Dalai Lama says no problem with gay marriage
The celibate Dalai Lama has thrown his considerable moral weight behind gay marriage, condemning homophobia and saying sex was fine as long as it was consensual.
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10 years ago+16 16 0Syria's Assad says he supports Putin on Ukraine
Damascus — Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has expressed his "solidarity" with Russian President Vladimir Putin's position on the crisis in Ukraine, state media reported on Thursday.
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10 years ago+10 10 0EU slaps initial sanctions on Russia
BRUSSELS (AP) — BRUSSELS — The European Union suspended talks with Russia on a wide-ranging economic pact and a visa agreement Thursday in response to its military incursion into Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, threatening tougher sanctions unless ...
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10 years ago+19 19 0Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk: Crimea 'was, is and will be an integral part of Ukraine'
A Crimean parliament decision to hold a referendum on separation from Ukraine is an "illegitimate decision," Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.
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10 years ago+4 4 0Russia Starts Massive Air Defense Drills Amid Crimea Standoff
Russia’s Western Military District has begun large-scale air defense drills at its southern testing range of Kapustin Yar on the backdrop of further escalation of tensions with the West over Ukraine.
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10 years ago+21 21 0IKEA is in trouble for cutting down 600-year-old trees
Logging subsidiary Swedwood had its forestry certificate pulled in Karelia, Russia.
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10 years ago+11 11 0Prosecutors drop charges over Fukushima nuclear disaster. No one has been held responsible for this incident
No-one has been held accountable for the second-worst nuclear accident in history
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10 years ago+14 14 0Ukrainian leader declares Crimea referendum an illegal farce
Ukraine's acting president said on Thursday a referendum planned by the pro-Moscow parliament in Crimea on joining Russia was illegitimate, and declared it a farce and crime organized by the Russian military. In a short televised address, Oleksa ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0Norway will cut through an island in tribute to massacre victims
How do you adequately craft a memorial for one of the worst days in a country's modern history? That's the question that was posed to architects and artists as part of a competition for a dual-site...
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10 years ago+17 17 0‘70 dead in Bolivia carnival festivities’
The Bolivian government says 70 people died in four days of carnival festivities in the country.
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10 years ago+20 20 0Legoland cancels muslim fun day in its UK hotel due to threats
The Legoland theme park west of London has temporarily closed its hotel after threats from far-right groups forced it to cancel a "Muslim fun day"
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10 years ago+13 13 0US Announces Visa Restrictions on Russians
The Obama administration slapped new visa restrictions Thursday on pro-Russian opponents of the new Ukraine government in Kiev and cleared the way for financial sanctions as the West began punishing Moscow for its occupation of Ukraine's Crimea ...
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10 years ago+10 10 0U.S. imposes new sanctions on Russian officials it blames for Ukraine crisis
As the global standoff over Russian troops in Ukraine deepens, the White House today said the U.S. will block Russian officials from the U.S. and that President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that allows sanctions against "individual ...