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    Russian coach gets 5-game ban for racist comments
    Nov12

    Russian coach gets 5-game ban for racist comments

    MOSCOW (AP) – A Russian soccer coach who said he would not sign dark-skinned players received a five-game ban Wednesday for racial discrimination.The punishment is the strongest sanction for racism handed out to a player or coach by the Russian Football Union.Igor Gamula told Russian journalists last month that FC Rostov had enough...

    Italy couple cannot keep child born to surrogate mother: court
    Nov12

    Italy couple cannot keep child born to surrogate mother: court

    ROME (AFP) – Italys supreme court has ruled that a baby born to a surrogate mother in Ukraine cannot be kept by the Italian couple who paid for it and must be put up for adoption, Italian media reports said Wednesday.Under Italian law, the person who gives birth to a baby is legally its mother, and the use of surrogate mothers is...

    NATO says Russian military equipment entering east Ukraine
    Nov12

    NATO says Russian military equipment entering east Ukraine

    SOFIA (AFP) – NATO has observed columns of Russian military equipment including tanks, artillery and combat troops entering eastern Ukraine in the past two days, the military alliances supreme allied commander said Wednesday.Across the last two days we have seen the same thing that OSCE is reporting. We have seen columns of Russian...

    Germany skirted recession in Q3: ministry
    Nov12

    Germany skirted recession in Q3: ministry

    BERLIN (AFP) – Growth in Germany is slowing, but Europes biggest economy still managed to scrape past a new recession in the third quarter of this year, the Economy Ministry said Wednesday.Two days before the publication of official gross domestic product (GDP) data, the ministry said that following the shallow contraction in the second...

    Economic headwinds threaten G20 growth pledge
    Nov12

    Economic headwinds threaten G20 growth pledge

    Brisbane (Australia) (AFP) – G20 leaders will this weekend pledge to rev up combined growth by two trillion dollars but analysts are skeptical of success with key pistons of the global economic engine such as Germany and China starting to misfire, and Japan again at risk of going into reverse.With Barack Obama, Chinas Xi Jinping and...

    Monitors fear rising violence in eastern Ukraine
    Nov12

    Monitors fear rising violence in eastern Ukraine

    Kiev (AFP) – International observers issued a stark warning over escalating violence in eastern Ukraine as Dutch investigators hoping to recover debris from a doomed airliner left the MH17 crash site with little progress.The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said there was a rising risk that unrest in the war-torn...

    China wins APEC support for free trade ‘roadmap’
    Nov11

    China wins APEC support for free trade ‘roadmap’

    BEIJING (AFP) – An Asia-Pacific summit on Tuesday endorsed a Beijing-backed route towards a vast free trade area in the region, host Xi Jinping said, calling it a historic step.At the same time the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting saw a flurry of diplomatic activity, with Russias President Vladimir Putin — often...

    European stock markets extend gains
    Nov11

    European stock markets extend gains

    LONDON (AFP) – Europes leading stock markets rose Tuesday, with traders reacting to corporate updates and keeping a watch over escalating tensions in eastern Ukraine in the absence of major economic data releases.Londons benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 0.13 percent to stand at 6,619.69 points near midday in the British capital, building on...

    Fears of all-out Ukraine war grow as MH17 families mourn
    Nov11

    Fears of all-out Ukraine war grow as MH17 families mourn

    Shakhtarsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – New columns of tanks, trucks and heavy artillery rumbled towards the pro-Moscow rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Monday as fears grew of a return to all-out fighting in war-torn eastern Ukraine.The Netherlands meanwhile held an emotional ceremony for the 298 victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which was shot...

    Asian shares firm after sound U.S. data
    Nov10

    Asian shares firm after sound U.S. data

    (Reuters) – Asian shares gained on Monday after U.S. jobs data pointed to solid economic growth, with Hong Kong leading the gains after regulators set a date for a long-awaited trading link between the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges to open.MSCIs broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 1.2 percent, led...