SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics Co. forecasts its second-quarter profit has dropped 4 percent from a year earlier. The maker of Galaxy smartphones said in its earnings preview Tuesday that its April-June operating profit was 6.9 trillion won ($6.1 billion). The consensus among analysts was 7.23 trillion won, according …
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BERN, Switzerland – One of the seven FIFA officials arrested in Zurich as part of an American corruption probe has agreed to be extradited to the United States, Swiss authorities said Friday. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Justice didn’t identify the official involved, saying in a statement that he “wished not …
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LONDON – Prince William says he’s nervous but looking forward to getting started as he begins working as an air ambulance pilot based at Cambridge Airport. The second-in-line to Britain’s throne clocked in Monday for his first shift for East Anglian Air Ambulance and checked over his H145 helicopter, together …
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BEIJING – The British Embassy in Beijing says 11 Britons have been detained in northern China and that it is trying to find out why. The embassy cited a British Foreign Office statement that said nine Britons and two dual British-South African nationals had been detained in northern China and …
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MOSCOW – Russia’s human rights commissioner says the Ukrainian servicewoman charged in the deaths of two Russian journalists is being sent to a detention facility in western Russia as her trial looms closer. Nadezhda Savchenko, a military pilot, allegedly was working as a spotter in eastern Ukraine and provided the …
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BEIRUT – Palestinian officials say a shooting in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed two people and wounded three. Tuesday’s shooting in the Ein el-Hilweh camp comes three days after an official from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party — Talal Baladneh, who was also known as Talal …
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MILAN – Italian oil and gas company Eni says it lost 113 million euros ($124 million) in the second quarter due to a sharp decline in oil prices. Eni said Thursday that the loss compared with a net profit of 658 million euros in the same period last year. Eni …
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MOSCOW – Russia has tightened controls on imports of cut flowers from the Netherlands, a move that comes amid a strain in ties over the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine. National veterinary agency Rosselkhoznadzor said Tuesday checks have repeatedly found Dutch cut flowers infested with pests. Starting …
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UNITED NATIONS – A Security Council diplomat says the United States and Russia have reached agreement on a draft United Nations resolution aimed at identifying the perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in Syria so they can be brought to justice. The diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because discussions were …
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MADRID – Spain’s Interior Ministry is defending its department head after a newspaper revealed he secretly met with Rodrigo Rato, the former International Monetary Fund chief suspected of fraud and money laundering. The ministry said in a statement Monday that Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz and Rato discussed “exclusively personal” …
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