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German mini-world park builds a wall around US

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">HAMBURG, Germany: A German tourist attraction that features miniature models of various parts of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">world has put up a wall around the United States, in a dig at President Donald Trump's plan to build a full-sized one on the border with Mexico.</span></h2>
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German mini-world park builds a wall around US

HAMBURG, Germany: A German tourist attraction that features miniature models of various parts of the world has put up a wall around th...

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LabCorp explores acquisition of clinical trials firm

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<span style="color: #333333;">REUTERS: Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) is in talks to acquire </span><span style="color: #333333;">contract researcher </span><span style="color: #333333;">Pharmaceutical Product Development LLC </span><span style="color: #333333;">(PPD) for more than </span><span style="color: #333333;">US$8 billion,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.</span></h2>
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LabCorp explores acquisition of clinical trials firm

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The Most Popular Sport Betting Strategies

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, serif; font-size: 13px;">The Roman Empire, first settlers, modern era – sport betting together with the sport itself became an inherent part of our lives since the earliest times. We can imagine how first fans were sitting next to each other </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, serif; font-size: 13px;">at some sporting event and cheering for the team. You perfectly recognise this feeling of anxiety when at home you and your better half put a stake on something that is very important to you both. Anyway, that is just an example how much of the betting is now in our blood and DNA. Generations and generations were practising betting. The Gladiator fights demonstrated us first organised betting, and also first fixed fights. That is the only thing that can make us annoyed or rich, that depends on the information you may have on fixed game or fight. That is the reality of the modern sport and we must accept it.</span></h2>
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The Most Popular Sport Betting Strategies

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Google, unlike Microsoft, must turn over foreign emails: US judge

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Google, unlike Microsoft, must turn over foreign emails: US judge

REUTERS: A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States, diver...

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ICC begins 'Big Three' rollback despite India objection

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ICC begins 'Big Three' rollback despite India objection

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Australia agrees to meet FIFA deadline on broader Congress

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SYDNEY: Football Federation Australia will hold an Extraordinary General Meeting to expand its Congress ahead of the FIFA-imposed deadline of March 31 after talks with the president of soccer's world governing body in Zurich this week.</h2>
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Australia agrees to meet FIFA deadline on broader Congress

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Five on Friday: 5 single-ingredient Singapore restaurants to get you drooling

Five on Friday: 5 single-ingredient Singapore restaurants to get you drooling

In our regular light-hearted look at what's been making the headlines, Hidayah Salamat checks out the restaurants that dish out one mai...

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Altria investigating if recalled tobacco products were tampered with

Altria investigating if recalled tobacco products were tampered with

REUTERS : Altria Group Inc said on Friday it was working with authorities to investigate if the smokeless tobacco products it recalled ear...

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