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Pemex begins review of collective bargaining contract

Mexico City, Jun 18 (EFE).- State-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said it started the review process for its 2013-2015 collective bargaining agreement with its union, with the two sides forming a joint committee to go over the contract. Creation of the committee marks "the formal start of negotiations on a new labor contract," whose review must be completed by Aug. 1, Pemex said in a statement.

Russia: Chance for progress on Iran nuclear issue must be seized

By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran has taken constructive steps toward compromise in the decade-old standoff over its nuclear program and world powers should reciprocate, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published on Tuesday. Iranians elected a new moderate president, Hassan Rohani, on Friday and he held out the prospect on Monday of a thaw in relations between Iran and the world, including the United States, and progress on resolving the nuclear dispute.

U.S. patent case climaxes with win for Canadian vibrator maker

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Couples in the United States looking to spice up their sex lives will have to do without certain adult toys after a U.S. trade panel ruled on Monday that some companies are violating a patent held by a Canadian company for a two-armed vibrator. The U.S. International Trade Commission found that vibrator maker Lelo Inc as well as distributors and a retailer infringe on Standard Innovation Corp's patent for a two-armed vibrator that couples can use during intercourse.

Siemens solicits private equity offers for NSN stake: sources

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German industrial conglomerate Siemens is seeking offers from private equity firms to buy its stake in its telecoms equipment joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), three sources familiar with the discussions said on Tuesday. Siemens, together with its partner Nokia is reviving efforts to find a buyer and has approached private equity companies TPG, KKR and Blackstone, the sources said. Nokia and Siemens have been looking to exit the joint venture company through a buyout or public offering.

FBI official says NSA programs helped foil NYSE bombing plot

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's surveillance of telephone and Internet communications foiled plots including one to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, Sean Joyce, the deputy FBI director, said on Tuesday. While monitoring a known extremist in Yemen, intelligence agents "were able to detect a nascent plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange," he said in testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence committee during a hearing on National Security Agency data gathering programs.

G-8 leaders vow to work on reducing terrorism risks

Leaders of the Group of Eight nations on Tuesday condemned terrorism of any form and vowed to cooperate in reducing terrorism risks as they wrapped up their two-day summit in Northern Ireland. In a communique released after the summit, the leaders expressed deep concerns about North Korea's nuclear and missile programs and called on the country to abandon the programs, which Pyongyang has pursued despite international sanctions against it.

Tennis: Stich backs Haas as Wimbledon dark horse

Former champion Michael Stich has said evergreen Tommy Haas is a realistic outside contender at Wimbledon next week as the 35-year-old German enjoys an Indian summer in his career. "If he has a chance to win a Grand Slam, then it's at Wimbledon," the 44-year-old Stich, the last German to win the grass-court Grand Slam tournament in 1991, told website Spox.com with Wimbledon to start on Monday. "The nice thing about Tommy is that he is healthy and enjoying it all at the moment.

Cricket: Cummins set for Irish return

Rising Australia fast bowling hope Pat Cummins is to make an unusual return to action from injury by playing for the Northern Ireland Cricket Academy in Belfast on Wednesday. The 20-year-old will play against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) before switching side two days later to play against Ireland Under-19s, who are preparing for their Under-19 World Cup qualifiers in the Netherlands in August. Cummins's participation in the two matches comes after an agreement between Cricket Australia and Cricket Ireland.

Tunisian court jails Salafists for burning Sufi shrine

TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian court has sentenced six radical Islamists to five years in prison for burning a Sufi Muslim shrine in one of a spate of attacks that have highlighted rising militancy in the country that ignited the Arab Spring. Last October, Salafist Muslims descended upon Saida Manouba, a famous Sufi shrine in Tunis, setting it alight and attacking visitors. Salafists, whose ultraconservative ideology is followed by al Qaeda, consider Sufism, a mystical form of Islam, as heretical.

Iceland received informal approach over Snowden seeking asylum

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland has received an informal approach from an intermediary who says Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed the U.S. government's secret surveillance programs, wants to seek asylum there. Snowden, the former employee of contractor Booz Allen Hamilton who worked in an NSA facility in Hawaii, made world headlines after providing details of the program to the Guardian and Washington Post and then fleeing to Hong Kong.
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