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ADM to buy Swiss flavoring maker for about $3B
juli 07, 2014by latadmin
DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — Agribusiness giant ADM will pay about $3 billion to buy the privately held Swiss company Wild Flavors, which supplies natural flavors and other...
Sri Lanka to charge asylum-seekers returned by Australia
juli 07, 2014by latadmin
Sri Lanka is set to charge the 41 asylum seekers, including four Tamils, who attempted to enter Australia illegally and were eventually returned in a controversial...
Preliminary vote tally shows Ashraf Ghani winning Afghan presidency
juli 07, 2014by latadmin
Ashraf Ghani won 56% of the votes in the Afghanistan presidential runoff, according to preliminary results released Monday, a massive increase over his first-round total...
Afghanistan’s Ashraf Ghani leads in early vote count
juli 07, 2014by latadmin
7 July 2014 Last updated at 16:08 BST Ashraf Ghani has won 56.44% of votes cast in Afghanistan’s presidential election, according to preliminary results. Rival...
Torrential rainfall causes seven-metre-deep lake in China’s Hunan province
juli 06, 2014by latadmin
Heavy rainfall in China has formed a seven metre-deep lake in its central Hunan province. The body of water is more than 150 square kilometres, or 58 square miles,...
Chinese leader takes broad yet selective aim at corruption
juli 06, 2014by latadmin
When it comes to fighting government corruption, few Chinese leaders have had as ruthless a reputation as Emperor Hongwu, founder of the Ming Dynasty. After taking the...
Afghan election: US Senator Carl Levin makes audit call
juli 06, 2014by latadmin
A senior US senator says he expects the Afghan Election Commission to conduct a "comprehensive audit" of polls cast in the presidential run-off. The appeal was...
Dalai Lama urges end to anti-Muslim violence
juli 06, 2014by latadmin
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, has reiterated his plea to Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to halt violence against Muslims, in a speech...
Family members of UK citizens killed in Indian violence 12 years ago urge British ministers …
juli 06, 2014by latadmin
Relatives of three UK citizens killed during communal violence in India have called on senior British ministers to press the matter when they this week meet the...
