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  • Thames River Waste Repels Olympic Rower Amid Tunnel Works

    Andy Triggs Hodge, a gold medal- winning rower at the Beijing and London Olympics, stopped training on Britain’s most famous river when it turned out water wasn’t his biggest obstacle: raw sewage on the Thames was.

  • Ukraine Has Longer to Meet EU Demands, Lithuanian Minister Says

    Ukraine has six months to meet European Union terms for an association agreement instead of a May deadline the 27-nation bloc set for improving its judiciary and electoral system, according to the foreign minister of Lithuania, which takes over the rotating EU presidency in July.

  • Samsung, Google, Nike, FIFA: Intellectual Property

    Samsung Electronics Co., which is battling Apple Inc. for dominance in the smartphone market, filed an application for a technology that permits the turning of a “page” in an e-book.

  • Stop the Putinization of Ukraine

    The European Court of Human Rights ruled today on what was already obvious: that Ukraine's imprisonment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on abuse-of-office charges was politically motivated -- or at least unrelated to the accusations themselves.

  • EU Nations Split Over Transaction Tax After U.K. Files Challenge

    European Union efforts to create a hard-to-escape financial transaction tax are coming under fire from within the bloc for overstepping the plan’s 11-nation scope.

  • Apple, Chick-Fil-A, Levi Strauss: Intellectual Property

    Apple Inc. averted an order that could have hindered imports of the iPhone 4 into the U.S. after persuading a U.S. trade agency to invalidate a patent owned by Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility unit over a phone sensor.

  • Cameron EU Justice Opt-Out Risks Security, Lawmakers Say

    Prime Minister David Cameron hasn’t made a “convincing case” for opting out of 133 European Union police and criminal-justice measures, a panel of lawmakers said, warning of “negative repercussions” for the U.K.’s security.

  • Clegg Denies U.K. Proposing Withdrawal From Human Rights Court

    Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg contradicted his Conservative coalition partners, saying there is no current move for Britain to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights in order to deport a radical cleric.

  • U.K. Begins Court Challenge to EU Transaction Tax

    The U.K. began a legal challenge to a European Union plan for a tax on financial transactions that could be collected worldwide, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said.

  • Motorola Mobility Risks Complaint Amid Race for Pact

    As Google Inc.’s antitrust clash over search-engine fair-play nears a possible settlement, its Motorola Mobility Holdings unit is embroiled in a separate European Union probe into its control of key patents in gadgets from Apple Inc. iPads to Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox console.

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