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  • Dalian Wanda Group to buy UK yacht maker and hotel property Dalian Wanda Group to buy UK yacht maker and hotel property

    LONDON - China's largest premier commercial property and entertainment conglomerate, Dalian Wanda Group Wednesday entered into 320million pounds definite acquisition deal with leading British yacht company, Sunseeker International Ltd, under which Wanda will acquire a majority shareholding of 91.81% in pre-eminent luxury motor yacht manufacturer. Under the agreement, the remaining 8.19% ...

  • Irish public support attack on U.S. president and family Irish public support attack on U.S. president and family

    Many people have rallied in support of controversial Independent TD Clare Daly after her extraordinary attack on the visiting U.S. president Barack Obama and his family. Daly didn't miss any punches on Wednesday morning in the Dail when she hit out at Obama, describing him as the "hypocrite of the century," and "a war criminal." She pointed out while he was in Northern Ireland talking the ...

  • Obama wife and daughters take walk in Wicklow Mountains National Park Obama wife and daughters take walk in Wicklow Mountains National Park

    US first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha Tuesday wrapped up their brief visit to Ireland with a private guided tour of Wicklow Mountains National Park. Michelle Obama and the girls have been taking in the sights as President Barack Obama meets with other world leaders at the G8 summit in neighbouring Northern Ireland. Malia, 14, and Sasha, 12, listened attentively Tuesday ...

  • Lundbeck and several drug firms fined for pact to delay generic drugs Lundbeck and several drug firms fined for pact to delay generic drugs

    BRUSSELS - European Union in its first case over pay-for-delay deals that held back sales of cheaper generic drugs Wednesday fined Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck 93.8 million euros and imposed fines totaling 52.2 million euros on several other producers of generic medicines. The European Commission, the EU's antitrust regulator, said the companies had reached agreements that may ...

  • Major General Finn appointed to top UN role in Jerusalem Major General Finn appointed to top UN role in Jerusalem

    18 June 2013 150 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment today of Major General Michel Finn, of Ireland, as head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the Jerusalem-based UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), the first such operation the world body set up almost 60 years ago. "Major General Finn succeeds Major General Juha Kilpia of Finland, who will ...

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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One [DVD]

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One [DVD]

There are so many levels of meaning in William Greaves oddball 1968 experimental hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One that its hard to know where to begin deconstructing it--or if deconstruction is even a possibility. Ostensibly about a film crew conducting screen tests of a ... ...

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  • Complaint over novel odd - Shatter

    Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has said he found it odd that a novel, which he wrote in 1989, has become the subject of a complaint to the Censorship of Publications Board. The book - Laura: A Story You Will Never Forget - sold an estimated 20,000 copies when it was first published but has since gone out of print. It is due to be re-published later this month following considerable public ...

  • Crown critical of cancer drug policy

    Independent Senator and oncologist John Crown has said it is a great scandal that some private health insurers have decided not to provide an approved cancer drug to their patients. Ipilimumab is available to people treated publicly for malignant melanomas, but not all health insurers will cover the costs. The drug, which costs between €40,000 to €50,000 per treatment, is available ...

  • PM could not have done a better PR job for Northern Ireland

    Prime Minister David Cameron could not have done a better PR job for Northern Ireland when he spoke about how beautiful it is, how warm hearted the people are and how impressed everyone has been, Northern Ireland Tourism boss Alan Clarke has said. Mr Clarke, ...

  • JFK ’eternal flame’ arrives at Dublin Airport

    Minister of State Paul Kehoe carries the Emigrant Flame from an Aer Lingus plane at Dublin Airport this morning. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish ...

  • Government pledges more financial aid for Syrian refugees

    An extra EUR1.65m of Government funding has been announced to help more than eight million people affected by the Syrian crisis.The Minister for Trade and Development Joe Costello says the funding will be given to Concern, Goal and Oxfam to provide humanitarian assistance to almost seven million people needing help inside Syria, and around 1.6 million more refugees that have left the country.It ...

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