Antigua Supported In Fiscal Retrenchment Efforts

A joint delegation from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union is in the Caribbean territory of Antigua, as part of a two-week mission, to put into motion a 30-month project to strengthen public finance management, and bolster tax collection.

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Asia-Based Incorporation Specialist Expands Into Europe

Offshore Incorporations Limited (OIL), a leading global company formation specialist based in Asia, has announced the opening of its first European office, in London.

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APNewsBreak: European police agency plans task force to help Scandinavians tackle terrorism

LONDON (AP) — In the wake of Norway’s terrorist attack, the European police agency is setting up a task force of more than 50 experts to help investigate non-Islamist threats in Scandinavian countries, its spokesman told The Associated Press on Saturday.

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Caribbean objecting to nuclear waste shipment

Caribbean officials on Thursday called for an immediate halt to a European shipment of reprocessed nuclear waste that will pass near the islands on its way to Japan, calling it a risk to the region’s people.

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Some of the mysteries surrounding the European eel revealed by EELIAD, a european scientific research programme

The European eel – Anguilla anguilla – is a very important species of fish. Eel fishing generates around 200 million euros per year and employs over 25 000 people in 15 European countries.

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Coach denies ‘Plastic Brits’ are using GB to fulfil Olympic dream

As well as venturing on to the front foot to attack the absent Phillips Idowu yesterday, Charles van Commenee was also on the back foot, mounting a staunch defence of two of the new girls – and one of the recently new – who will be flying the British flag at the European Team Championships at the 1912 Olympic Stadium here in the Swedish capital.

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Antigua and Barbuda-flagged vessel released from pirate control

An Antigua and Barbuda-flagged vessel was released from pirate control on Thursday after 70 days in captivity, the European Union Naval Force Somalia (EU NAVFOR) reported on Friday. EU Naval Force spokesman Paddy O`Kennedy said that the German-owned MV Susan K was pirated on April 8, approximately 200 nautical miles (230 miles) northeast of Salalah, Oman and about 35 nautical miles (40 miles …

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Bermuda safest, Antigua worst place in Caribbean to put money — report

HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC) — A European publication says Bermuda is the safest place in the Caribbean region and Antigua and Barbuda the worst to put money.

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BOOK REVIEW: Man who added Hawaii to the map

CAPTAIN COOK: MASTER OF THE SEAS By Frank McLynn Yale University Press, $35, 480 pages, illustrated These are hard times for the reputations of great explorers. Columbus is charged with introducing diseases to the Caribbean that effectively depopulated some islands. The westward movement of European settlers in America is held …

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Jailing of Croat general ignites anger at European Union and pro-Western government

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Anger at a U.N. court’s jailing of a Croatian war hero erupted into fury at the European Union and this country’s pro-Western government on Saturday when thousands of enraged veterans of the Balkan conflict tore EU flags and denounced the conservative administration.

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