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Spain's Bankia seeks 19bn euros

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
Spain's fourth-largest bank, Bankia, asks for a bailout worth 19bns euros ($24bn; £15bn), and admits that it made a massive loss last year.
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Hunt texted 'mon ami' to lobbyist

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt addressed News Corp lobbyist Fred Michel as "daddy" and "mon ami" in text messages released by the Leveson Inquiry.
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House Republican leaders plan summer tax cut vote

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top House Republican says his chamber will vote this summer on continuing the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush....
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French president: All combat troops out in 2012

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- French President Francois Hollande for the first time provided details of his plan to pull France's combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, saying Friday he would leave around 1,400 soldiers behind to help with training and logistics....

VIDEO: Rastan: Life inside a rebel stronghold

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
BBC reporter Paul Wood has been inside the Syrian town of Rastan, which has been under attack by the country's military despite a UN brokered ceasefire.
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House experience a minus for some Senate hopefuls

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. House members who are trying to make the step up to the Senate this year are finding themselves on the defensive about Washington experience that traditionally has been a big asset....

Label GMOs

NoNAIS - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29

Big Ag liked to hype in Europe how their Genetically Modified Orgasms(sic) were better. Yet they threaten to sue people in the USA for labeling products as containing GMOs. We’ve fought this battle before in Vermont, and won, with the rBST which Monstersanto quietly divested itself of once the Big Corps like Walmart saw the writing on the wall and refused to carry any more due to consumer uproar.

There is a new push to mandate the labeling of GMO products. Monstersanto and their ilk are fighting against such labeling. You can make a difference by letting the government, your representatives, state and local know how you fee.

Check out this article in the recent NYTimes.

Israeli archaeologists find rare ancient jewelry

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Israeli archaeologists have discovered a rare trove of 3,000-year-old jewelry, including a ring and earrings, hidden in a ceramic jug near the ancient city of Megiddo, where the New Testament predicts the final battle of Armageddon....

Israeli archaeologists find rare ancient jewelry

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Israeli archaeologists have discovered a rare trove of 3,000-year-old jewelry, including a ring and earrings, hidden in a ceramic jug near the ancient city of Megiddo, where the New Testament predicts the final battle of Armageddon....

Welsh valleys welcome torch relay

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
Thousands of people line the route of the Olympic torch relay as it winds its way from Cardiff, where Doctor Who star Matt Smith carried the flame, through the south Wales valleys towards Swansea.
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Nations 'wasting time' on climate

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
The latest round of UN climate talks makes little progress against a "coalition of the unwilling", observers say.
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Quebec's protest law challenged

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
Quebec student groups and unions mount a legal challenge to the province's controversial protest law, saying it is unconstitutional.
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VIDEO: Ice cream van banned as 'eyesore'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 14:29
An ice cream seller from Northumberland has been banned from trading because her van is an "eyesore".
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