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Oil ministers pose for a group picture during the 156th meeting of the OPEC conference at the new OPEC headquarters in Vienna on March 17, 2010. OPEC members have agreed to maintain the cartel's oil production ceiling in the face of recovering crude prices, de-facto group head Saudi Arabia said here on Wednesday.
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Oil drifts below $82 as month-long rally stalls
...prices "remain in the relatively narrow band of $10-$15, where they have been hovering since last October," said JBC Energy in Vienna . "Support is coming from the increasingly optimistic economic outlook as reflected in the healthy development of equity markets."In... |more
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A baseball writer pitches questions on the fastball
...able to wrestle this angel toward Earth, to harness and truly embrace the gift from above."Speaking by phone from his home in Vienna , Va., Wendel - a longtime baseball writer and founding editor of USA Today Baseball Weekly - says the ability to throw a 90-plus... |more
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More Ex-Vienna Boys' Choir members allege abuse
(AP) รข The Vienna Boys' Choir said Wednesday it has heard from eight possible abuse victims following an initial report of allegations last week.The famed institution said the men range in age from about 40 to over 70 and contacted the choir through a |more
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Vatican denies celibacy rule led to sex scandal
...even Italian commentators questioning the rule.Much of the furor was spurred by comments from one of the pope's closest advisers, Vienna archbishop Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, who called this week for an honest examination of issues like celibacy and priestly... |more
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Vladimir Jurowski leads London Symphony at Tilles
...Ivanov, 23, who recently wowed Europe , debuting to rave notices in all the important musical capitals - London, Paris , Berlin , Vienna , Salzburg and Geneva . Beethoven, of course, was part of "the great pantheon of the dead," as Jurowski puts it. His greatness... |more
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Pope's sex abuse letter breaks Vatican taboo
...the Middle Ages - is being publicly questioned for the first time by some church heavyweights, such as the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schoenborn. The taboo on any discussion at official level of the celibacy rule imposed by the late Pope John... 12:43 PM |more
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Reality Without Rohmer
...and his librettist, Hugo von Hoffmansthal, writing in 1911, had set their story more than a century earlier, in 18th-century Vienna, because the formalities of the Hapsburg court and its aristocratic hangers-on had largely fallen away by their own time... |more
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Victims to sue Catholic Church
Vienna - Austrian victims of maltreatment or sexual abuse by Catholic clergy are considering a class action against the Church, the daily Der Standard reported on Saturday. Viennese lawyer Werner Schostal told the paper the victims had created an |more
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Cameron's bill of rights: the Northern Irish dimension | Catherine Donnelly
...statements are not just a matter of politics. International treaties are interpreted differently from statutes. Article 31 of the Vienna convention on the law of treaties provides that when interpreting the language of a treaty in its context, it is necessary... |more
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International News brief
...out its tongue as it strolls through its outdoor enclosure Friday in a temperature of around 64 degrees at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the deal to compensate about 10,000 police officers, firefighters and other... |more
