Gennadi Gerasimov, Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the Soviet Union had no connection with Bloch (AP reports).

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Details of Union Bank's connection with Ribadeo comes to light via the criminal prosecution of the Bernal brothers of Colombia, Ricardo Mauricio and Juan Manuel, who pleaded guilty in late August to laundering drug money.

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Others, such as New Zealand and Australia, have chosen to retain the symbols of their close connection with Britain by keeping the union flag in the canton (upper left hand corner) of their national flags.

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Mr. Scanlon, who has run elections for AFSCME for nearly 15 years, acknowledged the connection between the number of government jobs and the union's political clout.

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But Pruitt wrote that most of the records collected from the AP "can have no plausible connection to any ongoing investigation, " and the American Civil Liberties Union called on the Justice Department to explain its actions.

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The undersea connection to the national grid was funded by the UK Government and European Union.

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We also reiterated that I will work with our European colleagues for the benefit of the European Union -- a union of 500 million people, which is so important in the interests of this connection with the United States and the bigger world outside.

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Economic theory, of course, says that there is little connection between the euro's value against the dollar or the yen and the success of monetary union itself.

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The Tsarnaev family's connection with Russia is complex because of the intricate patchwork of ethnicities that comprises Russia and the former Soviet Union.

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