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Spanish rallies turn violent as million people protest in 80 cities (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

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RT.com
Published: 20 July, 2012, 02:23
Edited: 21 July, 2012, 13:27

Firemen spray water over demonstrators during a protest against government austerity measures in Madrid. (REUTERS / Sergio Perez)

At least 15 people have been arrested and around 40 injured in central Madrid after police used force to disperse hundreds of thousands of angry protesters that flooded the streets in outrage against the country’s latest austerity package.

­Over a million public employees, trade union members and fed-up citizens have taken to the streets in over 80 Spanish cities.

Violence erupted in Madrid around midnight after dozens of protesters reached the city’s Puerta del Sol square and clashed with riot police. Security forces used batons, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowd as it tried to enter the congress building located on the square. Some of the protesters lobbed bottles at officers. At least 10 policemen were injured during the clashes in the capital.

Mormons lash out at 'tasteless' Businessweek cover that mocks the Church's financial enterprises

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GFP Note: As you can see from this story that we published on July 19, Business Week did change the cover for this story after the initial publication.

DailyMail.co.uk
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 09:36 EST, 14 July 2012
UPDATED: 10:24 EST, 14 July 2012

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Controversial: Commenting on the vast financial holding of the Mormon church, the cover illustration satirizes the moment when Mormons believe John the Baptist bestowed the priesthood on Joseph Smith, the faith's founding prophet


The Mormon church is outraged with the latest cover of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine which parodies their prophet’s mission and sends up the lucrative nature of the organisation.

The cover illustration satirizes the moment when Mormons believe John the Baptist bestowed the priesthood on Joseph Smith, the faith's founding prophet.

Are A-list Scientologist scandals hurting the church in Hollywood?

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Published July 05, 2012

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Tom Cruise gives a speech at the opening of a Scientology church in Spain in 2004. (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES – Just a couple of months ago, high-profile Hollywood Scientologist John Travolta was embroiled in a massive sex scandal when several masseurs accused the actor of sexual harassment and abuse.

Will the Pope’s Former Butler, Paolo Gabriele, Pay in a Vatileaks Trial?

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Author: Barbie Latza Nadeau
Jul 24, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

Paolo Gabriele, accused of stealing papal documents in the Vatileaks scandal, is out on parole but faces six years in prison. Barbie Latza Nadeau on three newly named suspects—and whether Benedict will forgive his butler.

 

Paolo Gabriele, the Pope's 46-year-old butler Photo: AFP/GETTY

The pope’s former butler, Paolo Gabriele, who has been languishing in a secret cell inside the fortified walls of Vatican City since May 23, has been released to house arrest. But while he has moved back into his familial apartment with his wife and three children, he cannot leave the sacred grounds of the tiny city-state until the Vatican tribunal makes the most important decision of his life. Will they absolve him of stealing papal documents and leaking them to the press, and let him go? Or, more likely, will they send him to trial, where he faces a six-year prison sentence?

Traders Under Investigation For LIBOR Rigging Keep Turning Up At Swiss Hedge Funds

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Matthew Boesler

Jul. 19, 2012, 2:15 PM


If you've been following the LIBOR interest-rate rigging scandal that is causing Wall Street to implode right now, you may be aware that major global banks all over the world are being dragged into the mess.

Individual traders from these banks are getting pinned with the blame. Bloomberg reports that Michael Zrihen at Credit Agricole, Didier Sander at HSBC, and Christian Bittar at Deutsche Bank are all under investigation over their involvement in the manipulation of LIBOR.

150 Mormons Leave Church, Cite Same-Sex Marriage, More As Why

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Posted by: Bridgette P. LaVictoire
on July 1, 2012.

 

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“This feels awesome. I don’t know if I would have had the courage exept in a group.” Those are the words of Alison Lucas from West Jordan, Utah. She was among a group of 150 Mormons who braved the heat in order to declare their independence from the religion. They gathered in a public park in Salt Lake City on Saturday in order to sign a “Declaration of Independence from Mormonism.” The reasons why they walked away was diverse, but included the Church’s stance on same-sex marriage.

Milk price row: Farmers and processors agree draft deal

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BBC.com
23 July 2012
Last updated at 11:29 ET

Dairy farmers and the processing firms they supply have agreed on the broad principles of a deal in their dispute over milk prices, the government says.

 

Farmers have blockaded the Robert Wiseman Dairies processing plant near Bridgwater, Somerset
Farmers blockaded the Robert Wiseman Dairies plant near
ridgwater in Somerset on Sunday
 

The draft agreement relates to a voluntary code of practice designed to give farmers more bargaining power.

But the National Farmers Union said it would not solve the current "crisis".

To read the rest of this story, visit BBC.com.

Evangelical church in $14-million financial scandal

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VancouverSun.com
Posted by Douglas Todd
July 22, 2012. 8:46 pm

Evangelical church in $14-million financial scandal

There was pandemonium and shoving at this financially disabled church on Sunday, as an angry member and a reporter were surrounded and hustled towards the exit.

A financial disaster at a large evangelical church is raising questions about “affinity fraud,” a term that covers the way people proclaiming to be Christians, for instance, sometimes take financial advantage of gullible Christians with whom they have a group “affinity.”

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