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ROLLING STONES SERVE UP PRICEY LIVE PERFORMANCE BOX SET
If you’re one of the lucky few to score an $85 ticket to one of the Rolling Stones’ 50 and Counting tour shows, you might have enough money left to drop $750 on a new band box set. The Brussels Affair box set featured the band’s...
Tags: Mick Jagger
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Student Academy Awards Go to USC, Ringling, Occidental and U of Texas
ReutersJun 09 (TheWrap.com) - Students from Occidental College, the University of Southern California, the Ringling College of Art and Design and the University of Texas at Austin won the top awards at the 40th Student Academy Awards on Saturday night, taking...Tags: Swiss Confederation, John Lasseter, Pixar Animation Studios, Luke Matheny, University of Michigan
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Hagel, NATO counterparts to discuss possible training role in Libya
BRUSSELS — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is expected to consult with his European counterparts this week about a possible North Atlantic Treaty Organization role training Libyan security forces as he attends his first meeting of the alliance&...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama, Government Ministers, Afghanistan, Politics
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EXCLUSIVE-Europe plans major scaling back of financial trading tax
Reuters* New plan would impose much smaller levy on shares from 2014 * Revised tax could raise only one tenth of original target * Levy may be rolled out only later on bonds, derivatives * Banks opposed levy, London taking legal action By John O'Donnell...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Politics, National Government, Government Debt
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Exclusive: Europe plans major scaling back of financial trading tax
ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - European countries planning a tax on financial transactions are set to drastically scale back the levy, cutting the charge by as much as 90 percent and delaying its full roll-out for years, in what would be a major victory for banks....Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Luxembourg, Politics, National Government
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Swiss take cue from EU members in corporate tax row
Reuters* Tax breaks on foreign profits helped Swiss lure companies * EU wants Switzerland to abolish incentives * Looking to models used in other EU countries By Caroline Copley and Alice Baghdjian BERNE, May 29 (Reuters) - Switzerland is considering...Tags: Google Inc., Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Swiss Confederation, Politics
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Lepchenko solid in Brussels quaterfinals, heads to Paris
Varvara Lepchenko, with her new sparkly gold fingernails, enjoyed a hectic and productive birthday week at the Brussels Open in Belgium last week. The 27-year-old resident of Upper Macungie Township reached the quarterfinals of the clay-court...Tags: Australian Open, Mirjana Lucic, Women's Tennis Association, Francesca Schiavone, French Open
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Tennis-Brussels Open women's singles results
ReutersMay 23 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Brussels Open Women's Singles matches on Thursday Round 2 Jamie Hampton (U.S.) beat 5-Kirsten Flipkens (Belgium) 6-4 3-6 7-5Tags: Kirsten Flipkens
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31 arrested in $50-million diamond robbery at Brussels Airport
LONDON — Thirty-one people have been arrested in a three-country sweep tied to a spectacular $50-million diamond heist at a Belgian airport in February, officials said Wednesday. More than 250 officers with the Belgian federal police and the...Tags: Swiss Confederation, Criminals, France, Police Arrests, Theft
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Authorities arrest 31 in spectacular diamond heist
LONDON -- Authorities in three countries have arrested 31 people in connection with a spectacular diamond heist in February that saw robbers disguised as police steal an estimated $50 million worth of gemstones from a parked plane on a Belgian airport...
Tags: Swiss Confederation, Elizabeth II, Criminals, France, Police Arrests
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Thieves in Belgium make off with $50 million in diamonds
PARIS -- Heavily armed robbers disguised as police officers stole $50 million worth of diamonds in a spectacular raid at Brussels' international airport, authorities said Tuesday. Shortly before 8 p.m. Monday, two black cars with flashing blue lights...
Tags: Criminals, France, Theft, Zurich (Swiss Confederation)
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Perfect middle ground for a visit to Belgium
ANTWERP, Belgium — Why go to Antwerp when you can just as easily visit Brussels or Brugge? You go exactly because it isn't Brussels or Brugge. Antwerp has the elegance of the European Union capital without its grandiosity and the picturesque charm...Tags: Belgium, European Union
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