EU won't ease Russia sanctions as Ukraine conflict rages

BRUSSELS — The European Union foreign ministers are ruling out any immediate easing of sanctions against Russia as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine, despite concerns about the economic consequences. Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said Monday...

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Film Finances poised to bring completion bonds to China

SHANGHAI - Leading movie finance company Film Finances Inc. plans to bring modern financing to China, with the opening Monday of a Shanghai branch office. The company's Film Finances China Cultural Services office is set up within the Shanghai Free...

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Amazon Studios to produce movies for theatrical, digital release in 2015

Amazon Studios said it will produce and acquire original movies for theatrical release and early-window distribution on Amazon Prime Instant Video starting in 2015. According to Amazon, it expects to produce about 12 movies per year. Amazon said its...

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Netflix 4Q preview: bet on better than 3Q

Netflix's disappointing third-quarter earnings might not bode well for the fourth-quarter results being announced Tuesday, but consider some mitigating factors. The streaming service is clearly seeing enough of an increasing softening in its domestic...

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Justices weigh would-be judges' appeals for campaign cash

WASHINGTON — Voters in the Tampa area didn't think much of Lanell Williams-Yulee's campaign for county judge in 2010, and the group that regulates Florida's lawyers didn't much like her campaign tactics. Along with being drubbed in the election, she...

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China shares dive as regulators clamp down on margin trading

TOKYO — Chinese shares plunged about 8 percent Monday after the country's securities regulator imposed margin trading curbs on several major brokerages, a sign authorities are worried about the market's big gains. Other markets in Asia and Europe were...

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Snowplow tracking apps hold cities accountable for cleanup

CHICAGO — As another storm flung snow at Chicago, Alexandra Clark wondered how she'd get to work. Like an increasing number of snowbound city dwellers, she had a ready tool at hand: an app that tracks hundreds of city snowplows in close to real time....

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GOP divided over using budget process on health care law

WASHINGTON — Republicans running Congress have promised to use every weapon in their arsenal to take down President Barack Obama's health care law. But now some are questioning whether to use the congressional budget process to derail the 2010 law or...

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Crews to clean up oil spilled from eastern Montana pipeline

BILLINGS, Mont. — Crews worked Monday to clean up crude oil that spilled in and near the Yellowstone River in eastern Montana while officials with Bridger Pipeline LLC tried to determine what caused the weekend breach. Bridger has said the break in...

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Years before Sony hack, NSA had cracked into North Korean networks: report

U.S. officials have been confident in pinning the blame on North Korea for last fall's devastating cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment because the National Security Agency had been closely monitoring the communist country's computer systems for...

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