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G-8 summit turns focus to clampdown on tax-dodging
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — World leaders at the G-8 summit declared Tuesday that governments must work together to close loopholes that allow multinational corporate giants to avoid paying taxes in their home countries. In a joint statement...Tags: G8, Starbucks Corp., G20, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Government
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Review: 'Big Men' hits a gusher of oil and greed
No single resource is more essential to modern life than oil, and no film offers a more incisive look at how the enormous wealth oil creates subverts the morality of individuals, corporations, even entire countries than Rachel Boynton's compelling...
Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Ghana, Elections, Politics, Petroleum Industry
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At least 26 killed in simultaneous car bomb attacks in Niger
NIAMEY, Niger — Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing 26 people and injuring...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nuclear Weapons, Niger, Emergency Incidents, Suicide
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Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum returns to form, with light and life
AMSTERDAM — A scrum of international TV reporters, photographers and other media packed the Gallery of Honor at the Rijksmuseum on a recent spring morning, while producers negotiated with publicists for time to shoot spots in front of Rembrandt's...
Tags: Museums, Renovation, Arts, Architecture, Netherlands
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Travel Brazil by bus for a calm and cheerful trip
SAO PAULO, Brazil — After a few hours, you sink into a pleasant trance. Time no longer matters. You stop checking your phone, if it hasn't already lost its charge. You're comfortable. Your mind settles into the little there is to do — think,...
Tags: European Union, Brazil, Air Transportation Industry, Music, Museum of Modern Art
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Illegal great ape trade is more organized, U.N. finds
A new United Nations report estimates that roughly 3,000 great apes are taken from the wild every year as part of an illegal international trade that is growing increasingly sophisticated. The report, “Stolen Apes,” calls for greater law...
Tags: United Nations
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Burkina Faso's film industry reemerges with a populist bent
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The film festival crowd had filled the last seats in the Cine Neerwaya and, when there was no room left, sat four abreast in the aisles. The opening credits hardly dimmed the buzz in the theater; for those who missed a...
Tags: National Government, Conservation, Government, Arts and Culture, Environmental Issues
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France says it won't negotiate to free kidnapped family
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The stakes are high for France: the lives of four French children, their parents, a relative and nine other French hostages being held by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Nigeria and Mali. But France, entrenched in a war in...
Tags: Kidnapping, Niger, Pakistan, Radio, Mali
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Nigeria extremists claim responsibility for kidnapping 7 foreigners
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- An extremist splinter group Monday claimed responsibility for the weekend kidnapping of seven foreigners in northern Nigeria. The group, Ansaru, broke away from the Islamist insurgent organization Boko Haram, which has been...
Tags: Religion and Belief, U.S. Department of Defense, Goodluck Jonathan, Kidnapping, Armed Conflicts
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France, Western allies likely to be mired in Mali for years
French troops backing a Mali government campaign to retake the northern half of the country from Islamic militants have been cheered as liberators since their convoys rolled into historic Timbuktu this week and hundreds of paratroopers dropped from the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, North Africa, Economic Community of West African States, Islam, Mali
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Timbuktu: Experts fear for ancient papers in historic city
This post has been updated and corrected. Please see the notes below.As the Malian military tried to retake the storied city of Timbuktu from Islamic extremists, scholars feared for the fate of ancient artifacts and mosques that testify to its historic grandeur. Timbuktu has been threatened for months: The city was...Tags: Religion and Belief, Douglas Park, The Pennsylvania State University, Arts and Culture, UNESCO
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Key city in Mali reportedly falls to French military
SEGOU, Mali — French and Malian forces on Saturday drove Al Qaeda-linked Islamists out of a key city in northern Mali, a major advance in France’s campaign against insurgents in the West African nation. The French military in Paris announced...
Tags: Armed Forces, Al-Qaeda, Mali, France, Rebellions
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