Milan to New York Service to launch in October Connecting mainland Europe with North America, Emirates will launch a direct service between Milan and New York, the airline’s only trans-Atlantic service, from 1st October 2013. Linking Italy directly with America, the new route will provide an important connection between Continental Europe and the U.S., allowing
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Exemptions of certain deposits from the ‘haircut’ will probably lead to an increase in the final ‘haircut’ of uninsured deposits over €100,000, according to data submitted to the Parliamentary Committee of Financial and Budgetary Affairs by Cyprus Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades, on Monday. According to the data, the exemptions were the result of a
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned North Korea on Monday that a further nuclear test would be a provocative measure and a violation of U.N. Security Council resolution 2094. "The DPRK (North Korea) cannot go on like this, confronting and challenging the authority of the Security Council and directly challenging the whole international community," Ban said
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Julia Kiraly, a deputy governor of Hungary's central bank, said on Monday she was resigning in protest at changes the new governor has implemented which, she said, could damage the bank and the Hungarian economy. The resignation of such a senior official is likely to sharpen concerns among some in the market that the central
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Russia urged Germany to punish a group of women who staged a bare-breasted protest against President Vladimir Putin on Monday during a visit to a trade fair in Hanover with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Three members of the women's rights group Femen, which has staged protests against Russia's detention of the feminist punk band Pussy
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Etihad Airways heralded a successful first year of its equity alliance strategy, after a financial reporting season which saw each of the five airlines within the alliance – airberlin, Air Seychelles, Virgin Australia, Aer Lingus and Etihad Airways – announce profitable performance. The airlines’ individual and collective results were boosted by a number of measures,
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The Cypriot economy is at a difficult point, Minister of Finance Harris Georgiades told the Parliamentary Committee of Financial and Budgetary Affairs, on Monday. Public funds will have reached their limit by the end of the month, Georgiades told MPs, adding that the government has no alternative but to proceed with the implementation of the
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"Evil Dead," the blood-drenched remake of the 1981 horror classic, "The Evil Dead," scared up $26 million in its first weekend to win the box office race, slashing past another familiar story, the 3D re-release of Steven Spielberg's 1993 dinosaur blockbuster, "Jurassic Park." The supernatural story of five twenty-something friends who battle demons in a
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Captain Kirk's "Star Trek" phaser gun from the second pilot of the wildly popular 1960s television series sold for a hefty $231,000 on Saturday in Los Angeles, Julien's Auctions said. The phaser, created at the request of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry for use by William Shatner, who played Kirk in the beloved sci-fi show,
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Prime Minister David Cameron hopes to overcome opposition to his plan to claw back power from Brussels when he meets the leaders of Germany, France and Spain this week for talks on Britain's future in the European Union. Cameron infuriated European allies in January when he said he would try to renegotiate terms of Britain's
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