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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes talks with President Vladimir Putin on Monday will revive efforts to end a territorial dispute that has prevented the nations signing a treaty to end World War Two.
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*Sechin LNG plan challenges Gazprom push into Asia-Pacific. ULAN-UDE, Russia, April 11- Rosneft and ExxonMobil on Thursday unveiled details of a $15 billion liquefied natural gas project to supply Asia-Pacific markets that would challenge Gazprom's monopoly on Russian gas exports.
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PARIS, April 10- Bernard Arnault, France's richest man, has abandoned attempts to obtain Belgian nationality and will keep paying tax in his native country after months of speculation that he, like movie star Gerard Depardieu, wanted to dodge a 75- percent supertax.
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Topless female protesters rushed at Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a visit to Germany. Putin later said, "I liked it," reports Tyler Mathisen. (0:54)
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BEIJING- A strain of bird flu that has been found in humans for the first time in eastern China is no cause for panic, the World Health Organization said on Monday, as the number of people infected rose to 24, with seven deaths.
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BEIJING- China is confident it can control an outbreak of a new strain of bird flu, a senior Chinese health official said on Sunday as the World Health Organization said there had now been 21 human cases of the H7N9 flu with six deaths.
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*No complaints yet from Tele2 minority shareholders. So it went with Nordic telecoms group Tele2, which found its options in Russia narrowed to the point where Chief Executive Mats Granryd and, apparently, its shareholders were grateful to accept the lowest of three offers to sell out.
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TYUMEN, Russia, April 3- Forty-five years after its accidental discovery deep under the swamps of West Siberia, the race is now on to develop the world's largest shale oil resource, Russia's Bazhenov.
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JERUSALEM- Israel pressed Hamas on Wednesday to rein in rocket-firing militants in the Gaza Strip after the most serious outbreak of cross-border hostilities since a ceasefire ended an eight-day war in November.
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UNITED NATIONS- The 193- nation U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the first treaty on the global arms trade, which seeks to regulate the $70 billion business in conventional arms and keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers.
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The security team for Russian President Vladimir Putin got in a small altercation with the South African security contingent after they wouldn't let the men inside a secure building.
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*China dominates, but can BRICS coalesce as a group? DURBAN, South Africa, March 27- At a summit in South Africa on Wednesday, Vladimir Putin likened the BRICS nations- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa- to Africa's "Big Five" game beasts of trophy hunting lore- the lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros.
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MOSCOW, March 25- Russia signalled on Monday it would backstop the European Union's bailout of Cyprus despite anger that the weekend rescue deal would impose heavy losses on uninsured depositors, many of them Russian.
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*Cyprus seals deal for 10- billion euro bailout. NICOSIA, March 26- The president of Cyprus assured his people a bailout deal he struck with the European Union was in their best interests, but banks will remain closed until Thursday- and even then subject to capital controls to prevent a run on deposits.
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*Cyprus seals deal for 10- billion euro bailout. NICOSIA, March 25- The president of Cyprus assured his people a bailout deal he struck with the European Union was in their best interests and would end anxiety, but he also announced "very temporary" capital controls to stem a run on the island's banks.
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*Cyprus seals deal for 10- billion euro bailout. NICOSIA, March 25- The president of Cyprus assured his people a bailout deal he struck with the European Union was in their best interests and would end anxiety, but he also announced "very temporary" capital controls to stem a run on the island's banks.
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The agreement came hours before a deadline to avert a collapse of the banking system in fraught negotiations between President Nicos Anastasiades and heads of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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BRUSSELS/ NICOSIA, March 25- As new President Nicos Anastasiades hesitated over an EU bailout that has wrecked Cyprus's offshore financial haven status, money was oozing out of his country's closed banks.
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MOSCOW, March 25- Ukraine's plan to buy more gas from Europe and reduce imports from Russia will not work because European prices are rising, Russia's Gazprom said, signalling it will not budge in a price dispute with Kiev.
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The Cyprus bailout and the death of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovksy this weekend might seem like entirely separate events. But they are deeply connected. And they share the same root tragedy: Call it the "The Oligarchs' Curse."
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MOSCOW, March 25- Russia signalled on Monday it would backstop the European Union's bailout of Cyprus despite anger that the weekend rescue deal would impose heavy losses on uninsured depositors, many of them Russian.