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Some World Cup referees ready to embrace technology

English referee Howard Webb, who officiated last month’s Champions League final, said he would be open to technological aids if they help referees get …
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Google tweaks China site in bid to keep license

Users are now required to click anywhere on the Google.cn page in order to get redirected to the Google Hong Kong search site, instead of being …
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Timeline: Previous U.S.-Russia spy incidents

The United States said on Monday it had arrested 10 alleged Russian spies days after President Dmitry Medvedev met Barack Obama in Washington.Here …
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InterContinental to double Chinese hotels by 2015

The British group, which operates Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza brands as well as InterContinental, currently runs 131 hotels in China with a further …
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Factbox: Use of ‘illegals’ in spying

The group was accused of being tasked by Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service to enter the United States, assume false identities and become …
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Berlusconi attacker found unfit for trial

Judge Luisa Savoia, however, placed Massimo Tartaglia under observation for one year in a psychiatric hospital where he has been held since …
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Hungary’s parliament elects Pal Schmitt president

Out of 322 valid votes in the 386-seat parliament, Schmitt received 263 votes, while his Socialist challenger Andras Balogh got 59 votes. Schmitt, a …
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Poland’s interim president leads in election poll

Voters will choose a successor to President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed along with 95 other people in a plane crash in April. A poll published …
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Israeli foreign minister: No Palestinian state by 2012

Avigdor Lieberman’s comments Tuesday caused consternation among Palestinians and conflicts with a goal set out by international Mideast negotiators, …
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Blatter warns France, Sarkozy not to interfere

Blatter said Tuesday he was sending a "clear and clean message" to the French government and President Sarkozy, who has said he would personally lead …
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Police: England fan incident ‘orchestrated’

National police commissioner Bheki Cele said police arrested Simon Wright on Monday. He said the Sunday Mirror journalist admitted to harboring and …
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter apologizes to England, Mexico for errors

Blatter said Tuesday that he said sorry to team officials, and that the delegations of both teams accepted his apology. "Naturally we deplore when you …
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Belgium takes on EU presidency, focus on finance

After Spain’s six months at the helm were largely taken up with managing the fallout from Greece’s debt crisis, and the knock-on effect on the rest …
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10 dead, 3 missing in floods in Romania

Emergency situations spokeswoman Dorina Lupu from Botosani county says torrential rains on Monday night led to floods that killed six people, most …
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UK journalist held over England team “trespass”

Sunday Mirror reporter Simon Wright was arrested in Cape Town on Monday after closed circuit television footage indicated he helped 32-year-old fan …
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Demjanjuk trial postponed for health reasons

The former Ohio autoworker is being tried on 28,060 counts of accessory to murder over allegations he was a guard at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp. …
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Strike leaves Madrid without subway trains

Madrid Metro company says all subway trains have been canceled Tuesday because labor unions refused to comply with an agreed 50 percent minimum …
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Google to end automatic rerouting from China site

Chief Legal Officer David Drummond said in a blog posting that Google had already started taking a small percentage of users to a landing page on …
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