 | May 23 2013 | Venezuela, Russia in joint oil venture ,AFP |
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(MENAFN - AFP) Venezuela and Russia formed a joint venture to produce 120,000 barrels of oil a day by 2016 in two fields in the Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt.
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| May 23 2013 | US Boy Scouts to allow gay youths, not leaders ,AFP |
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(MENAFN - AFP) The Boy Scouts of America said it will allow openly gay youths to join the organization but maintain a ban on gay adult leaders, after a vote at its annual meeting in ... |
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| May 23 2013 | Brazil to open huge oil field to auction ,AFP |
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(MENAFN - AFP) Brazil on Thursday said it will auction concessions to drill and explore an offshore oil field believed to hold up to 12 billion barrels of crude, the country's largest find.
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| May 23 2013 | IMF chief grilled in Paris court over 2007 payout scandal ,AFP |
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(MENAFN - AFP) IMF chief Christine Lagarde faces another day of questioning after being grilled for hours Thursday by French prosecutors who are deciding if she should be charged over a state ... |
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| May 23 2013 | Oil recovers after dive on Chinese data ,AFP |
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(MENAFN - AFP) Global oil prices closed little changed Thursday, recovering from sharper losses earlier in the day after weak Chinese manufacturing data.
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| May 23 2013 | Researcher admits mistakes in stem cell study ,AFP |
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(MENAFN - AFP) A blockbuster study in which US researchers reported that they had turned human skin cells into embryonic stem cells contained errors, its lead author has acknowledged.
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| May 23 2013 | 5,000 cave paintings discovered in Mexico ,AFP |
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(MENAFN - AFP) Archeologists have found nearly 5,000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers in a northeastern Mexico mountain range where pre-Hispanic groups were not known to have existed.
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| May 23 2013 | Germany 'most popular country' in the world: poll ,AFP |
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(MENAFN - AFP) Germany is the most popular country in the world despite well-publicised protests against its insistence on austerity measures within the European Union, an annual poll for the BBC ... |
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| May 23 2013 | NYSE says to spin off, not sell Euronext ,AFP |
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(MENAFN - AFP) NYSE Euronext with spin off European stock exchange group Euronext via an initial public offer rather than sell it following its merger with InterContinentalExchange (ICE), a senior ... |
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| May 23 2013 | Softbank yields to US security concerns on Sprint ,AFP |
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(MENAFN - AFP) Amid a heated takeover battle for US wireless carrier Sprint, Japan's Softbank has taken unusual steps to allay national security concerns about the deal, but a rival bid claims this ... |
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