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  • Murray pulls out of French Open

    US Open and Olympic champion Andy Murray Tuesday announced he will skip the French Open tennis due to a back injury. The World No.2 retired with the back problem in his second-round match against Spain's Marcel Granollers at the Rome Masters last week, which posed as a bad sign for his withdrawal from the second tennis Grand Slam of the year. Scotsman Murray will now aim to be fully fit for ...

  • Germans French eye plan to create jobs for young

    Germany's labor minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said Wednesday that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the countries' finance ministers and European industry representatives to discuss the initiative. On July 3, Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to host a meeting of the 27 European Union nations' labor ministers and national labor agency heads in ...

  • No.7 out of French Open

    Argentina's world No.7 Juan Martin del Potro has pulled out of the French Open with an ongoing viral infection.Del Potro is the second top 10 ranked ATP player to withdraw from the second Grand Slam of 2013 following world No.2 Andy Murray's decision on Tuesday to pull out due to a back injury."This is a tough blow, because these are the events you dream of winning," Del ...

  • ECBs Weidmann tells France - Dont repeat budget mistakes

    PARIS (Reuters) - France must step up reforms to rein in its budget deficit, Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said in a magazine interview, urging Paris to avoid repeating "the mistakes of the past." The European Commission has proposed that EU ...

  • A Beautiful Unbreakable French Press Made From A Mason Jar

    You don't have to be a coffee snob to know that French presses are delicate. Anyone who's ever so much as picked up one of the java brewers knows that the glass beakers are incredibly, almost uncomfortably, thin. But Mason jars? Sure, they're ubiquitous, and yeah, they can be a bit twee, but those babies are nothing if not sturdy. Bryan Kappa and Rob Story, the creative and ...


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  • France says Syrias Assad must give up power to end war

    Bashar al-Assad must turn over power to a transitional government in order for a U.S. and Russian-backed peace conference to have any chance of success, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday. "It is perfectly clear that the main aim of this possible conference is to bring in a transitional government for Syria which will have the full executive power," Fabius said ...

  • Germanys Bundesbank chief says France must cut deficit

    PARIS (AFP) - The head of Germany's Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, said France needs to make additional efforts to reduce its public deficit, in an interview published Wednesday.France was originally supposed to bring its public deficit back to the EU's ceiling of 3.0 percent of gross domestic product, but has won a two-year extension from the European Commission.Given that the Commission, ...

  • Frances Hollande says EU seeks automatic tax data sharing

    BRUSSELS | Wed May 22, 2013 11:43am EDT BRUSSELS May 22 (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday that European countries would start working in June on an automatic exchange of tax information, in a bid to recoup some of the billions of euros lost in tax evasion each year. Hollande told a news conference following a four-hour summit of European leaders that the ...

  • German-French plan to help jobless

    unemployment has become a pressing problem in many countries as economic belt-tightening continues.The German-French initiative comes at a time when both governments are under pressure: Germany faces criticism of its austerity-heavy remedy for Europe's debt crisis, while France has gone ...

  • German-French plan to tackle EUs youth unemployment

    Germany and France are preparing to launch a drive to combat the problem of high youth unemployment in Europe.Germany's labour minister said that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the countries' finance ministers and European industry representatives to discuss the initiative. Officials in Berlin say the jobs drive will focus on putting already ...

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