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  • The Government of the Republic of Botswana, which currently owns a 15 percent stake in De Beers has the opportunity to participate in the transaction and increase its interest in De Beers, on a pro rata basis, to up to 25 percent.

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  • Lochte, who turns 28 on Friday, said he plans to swim in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

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  • The talks are the latest in a line of climate conferences that began in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

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  • They are now only found in Llanos de Mojos in northern Bolivia.

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  • And next month, Clinton will go to New York attend an environmental summit, a followup to a summit held in Rio De Janeirio in 1992.

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  • Despite substantial improvements over the past 20 years in many key areas of sustainable development, the world is not on track to achieve the goals adopted in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

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  • Then more estimates day debates - first on transport and the economy and then on the Rio Plus Summit on sustainable development - to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June.

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  • It aims to encourage Member States to renew their political commitment to ocean health ahead of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development which will take place in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012.

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  • According to a leaked parliamentary report, several cadets on the Gorch Fock were reluctant to climb the mast in November following the death of a 25-year-old student - known only as Sarah S - during a stop-over in Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.

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  • Leading international scientists and policy-makers then came together during the Forum on Science Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in July 2012 and put forward a set of recommendation to help establish such co-designed research, technology and policy agendas.

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  • The operation, dubbed Purification, began in the early hours of the day in Duque de Caxias, in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

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  • It faces competition from Allied Signal and International Fuel Cells (part of United Technologies Group) in America, De Nora in Italy and Siemens in Germany.

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  • Entrants from Hong Kong and Australia have lifted big prizes at Royal Ascot and Japanese horses have contested in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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  • In the new economy, workers would wear whatever clothing best got their creative juices flowing, without unduly restricting freedom of movement while playing table football and engaging in other activities de rigueur in the modern cutting-edge working environment.

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  • The 76-year-old former archbishop of Buenos Aires, who was elected Wednesday as the first-ever Latin American pontiff, was feted by thousands of chanting and flag-waving Argentines gathered outside the cathedral in the Plaza de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires.

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  • It will be Wiggins' first time in a GB vest on the track since his heroic efforts in China in November 2008 with the 29-year-old Londoner, fourth in the Tour de France in 2009, also a possibility for the track World Championships in the Netherlands which run from 23 to 27 March.

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  • This explains the observed peak in sea ice during these seasons, a team from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in De Bilt says in its peer-reviewed paper.

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  • Patria restaurant sits in the heart of Plaza de Cumbaya in the gentrified Cumbaya Valley, roughly 15km east of the city centre on the way to the airport.

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  • These contracts would have allowed Discover to explore for oil in places such as Madre de Dios in the rainforest region and Pisco in the coast of Peru.

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  • Those travelling on a more open schedule, or rather those who do not have a specific date pinpointed to make it up the mountain, can purchase their tickets in person at the Instituto de Cultural Nacional de Cusco located off the Plaza de Armas in Cusco, as well as the Machu Picchu Cultural Center in Aguas Calientes.

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  • In 1792, Jacques Pelletier, a highwayman, became the first person to be guillotined in France, on the Place de Greve in Paris.

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  • Transat Jacques Vabre competitors sail in the opposite direction to the coffee trade route of the 19th Century, leaving Le Havre in France and heading for Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.

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  • O'Grady boasts an impressive CV, having won gold in the Commonwealth Games road race in 2002 and led the Tour de France in 1998 and 2001, winning a stage to Grenoble in 1998.

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  • But Spanish confidence returned in waves Tuesday night at the Stade de France in Paris.

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  • When the singer's "Vogue" video came out in 1990, featuring Madonna's de Lempickas in the background, it sent a frisson through auction houses and art galleries.

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  • Richard Gasquet became the first player to win twice on the ATP Tour this year as he beat compatriot Benoit Paire 6-2 6-3 in Sunday's final of the Open Sud de France in Montpellier.

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  • Judge Castro is leading the investigation at a local court in Palma de Mallorca, in Spain's Balearic Islands.

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  • On Friday, prosecutor Pedro Horrach filed his appeal to Castro's local court in Palma de Mallorca, in Spain's Balearic Islands.

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  • Mesbah-Yazdi has lived in virtual isolation for the past 20 years, holed up in de-facto exile in the Shi'ite holy center of Qom.

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