More than 70 percent of all the antibiotics used in the United States are given to animals.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlTracing Germs Through the Aisles - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Agribusiness groups disagree and say the main problem is overuse of antibiotic treatments for people. Bugs rarely migrate from animals to people, and even when they do, the risk they pose to human health is negligible, the industry contends.
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He is comparing the genetic sequences of E. coli germs resistant to multiple antibiotics found in the meat samples to the ones that have caused urinary tract infections in people (mostly women).
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France Says It Will Ban Uber's Low-Cost Service in New Year - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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France Says It Will Ban Uber’s Low-Cost Service in New Year
Europe's Farmers Feel the Weight of Russian Ban - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Europe’s Farmers Feel the Weight of Russian Ban
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For Fromi Rungis, Russia accounted for 10 percent of its foreign sales.
Russia Responds to Western Sanctions With Import Bans of Its Own - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Russia Responds to Western Sanctions With Import Bans of Its Own
France banned free shipping. So Amazon made it cost one cent. - 0 views
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France Banned Free Shipping. So Amazon Made It Cost One Cent.
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France's fun didn't last long. With the law officially in effect, Amazon announced that it is indeed complying with the terms and charging for shipping—a full one cent.
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Where Amazon can't shirk the law so easily is in its second provision: that online retailers can no longer legally discount the price of books.
Europe Haggles Over New Rules Aimed at Saving Fish Stocks - WSJ.com - 0 views
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Fishermen currently discard nearly a quarter of Europe's total catch on average, and as much as 70% of the hauls in some areas, European Commission data show
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"The law has been made by someone who doesn't know fisheries," said fisherman Geert Luickx as he painted his boat here in this North Sea port. Without financial assistance, more crew, and a bigger boat, he said, he won't be able to comply with the new law.
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Commission data show 80% of stocks in the Mediterranean, including swordfish, and 47% of stocks in the Atlantic, including whiting off Scotland's western coast, are being exploited at levels that will lead to extinction.
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How Putin Forged a Pipeline Deal That Derailed - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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How Putin Forged a Pipeline Deal That Derailed
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The pipeline, known as South Stream, was Mr. Putin’s most important European project, a tool of economic and geopolitical power critical to twin goals: keeping Europe hooked on Russian gas, and further entrenching Russian influence in fragile former Soviet satellite states as part of a broader effort to undermine European unity.
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The bill that Parliament took up on April 4 was arcane. But it swept aside a host of European regulations — rules that Mr. Putin did not want to abide by — for a pipeline that would deliver gas throughout southern Europe. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage In Diplomatic Defeat, Putin Diverts Pipeline to TurkeyDEC. 1, 2014
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EU economic sanction on Russia won't affect gas - Rompey - RT Business - 0 views
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EU economic sanction on Russia won’t affect gas – Rompey
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The first principle is that "the measures in the field of sensitive technologies will only affect the oil sector in view of the need to preserve EU energy security," an EU source familiar with the letter told Reuters.
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The second principle of “non-retroactivity will apply across all targeted sectors, notably in the field of arms trade and restrictions on access to capital markets,” Van Rompuy wrote.
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Russia puts squeeze on Ukraine, jacks up natural gas prices 40 percent - CSMonitor.com - 0 views
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Russia puts squeeze on Ukraine, jacks up natural gas prices 40 percent
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On Thursday, the International Monetary Fund threw a financial lifeline, agreeing to stump up $14-18 billion as part of a two-year bailout package in exchange for tough economic reforms.
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Russia's milk union has asked for a ban on Ukrainian dairy products
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Slovenia's financial crisis: Stressed out | The Economist - 0 views
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The banks’ plight arises from mounting losses on their loans. Between the middle of 2012 and of 2013, the ratio of non-performing to total loans rose from 13.2% to 17.4%, which is the highest level in the euro zone after Greece and Ireland (see chart). The bad debts have been incurred predominantly through lending to businesses.
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Only the state can provide the funds needed to recapitalise the banks. It wants them to transfer a big chunk of their bad loans to a state-run “bad bank”, for much less than their original value.
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In this respect Slovenia is a textbook case of the problem that has plagued other parts of the euro zone: the link between weak banks, which governments end up recapitalising at great expense, and weak government finances.
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