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French scion finds feet

Weekly International: Rousselet launches company in midst or recession -- Rousselet and his partner Fabrice Gianfermi started collecting the financing for the venture specializing in commercial English- language titles in early...

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Ghostly Funeral Procession of Fort de Chartres

Prairie du Rocher, Illinois is the Site of Phantom Entourage People have witnessed a phantom funeral procession of ghosts dressed in colonial clothes treading toward a cemetery, then vanish. The first Fort de Chartres,...

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Bus-riding moms win Ottawa stroller fight

More than a dozen moms armed with babies and strollers rolled into Ottawa city hall Wednesday to protest rules that would have restricted bulky strollers on transit buses. And in the end, councillors backed down.

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Tobin is not a mythical monster to frighten the City; it has a moral force

Gordon Brown deserves praise for backing an international tax on financial transactions. Now he just needs to reform the banks "The Tobin tax is like the Loch Ness monster; it appears once or twice a year, then goes away."...

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Armed gang rob famed Paris jewellers (AAP)

Armed and masked raiders barged into the former jewellers of Napoleon and Queen Victoria in Paris on Friday and forced staff to hand over precious stones worth hundreds of thousands of euros. The pair raided the Chaumet store...

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Tishman Pays $95M for Office Property

PARIS-Tishman Speyer, through its Tishman Speyer European Core Fund, has purchased an office building in central Paris for $95 million. The 140,000-square-foot facility was sold by SCI Vendome. "We’re very pleased to have...

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Nanowriter manipulates magnetic nanoparticles for high-density data storage

One promising concept for increasing the data storage density of hard drives is to use individual magnetic nanoparticles to represent single bits of information. Together, two teams of researchers from Orléans and Marcoussis in...

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Ottawa H1N1 vaccination suspended as of Friday

Clinics to close at the end of Thursday because of vaccine shortage Swine flu vaccination clinics in Ottawa will temporarily close at the end of Thursday because there is not enough vaccine, the Ottawa Public Health department...

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Demilitarisation - Getting Shot Of The MLRS Rocket Stock

Given the quantities of MLRS rockets involved, MBDA will, however, employ the latest equipment including robotic handling devices to ensure that operators are not endangered by proximity to energetic materials. The process will...

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International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Independent Conference on its Legacy From the Defence...

Montreal, Canada, November 9 (ots/PRNewswire) - The Hague, Holland 14 et 15 Novembre 2009 Institute for Social Studies Kortenaerkade 12 2518 AX Den Haag The Coordinating committee is pleased to announce the conference to be...

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