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Royal Dutch Shell, CNPC Ink First Chinese Shale Gas Production-Sharing Deal

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (NYSE:RDS) signed Wednesday the first-ever production sharing contract with China's state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., or CNPC, as the world's second largest economy seeks to develop its untapped reserves, similar to those that gave rise to the U.S. natural gas boom, with the help of foreign technology.
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Rihanna Has A Girl Crush On Kate Moss?

Rihanna just got a little girl crush! The 23-year-old Man Down singer has reportedly asked Kate Moss to be her plus one when she performs at a music festival this summer.
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Dutch Prince Johan Friso: Mabel Wisse Smit Marriage And Other Royal Family Problems

The Dutch Royal family is trying to return to their normal routines following Prince Johan Friso's avalanche accident on February 17th. Queen Beatrix, Johan Friso's mother, returned to her royal duties at the beginning of March, attending a meeting with the Prime Minister, and later opening up the new Explosive Ordnance Barracks in Soesterberg.
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Asma al-Assad: Modern Day Marie Antoinette?

French Queen Marie Antoinette -- who historically bears the brunt of having uttered the four words, summing up the obliviousness of the French monarchy to the poverty of the peasants, prior to the French revolution -- may have found her modern day avatar in the Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad. Upon learning that her subjects had no bread to eat during the famine that occurred in France due to the mismanagement of treasury, Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI of France, famously remarked: Let them ...
Amnesty International calls on Asma al-Assad, wife of embattled Syrian president, to use influence to defend rights of all peaceful activists

Asma Al-Assad: Syrian First Lady Faces EU Sanctions, Writes 'I Am The REAL Dictator'

Asma al-Assad, the 38-year-old wife of Syrian regime leader Bashir al-Assad and a former investment banker, will likely join 114 other Syrians on a list of sanctioned individuals by the European Union, freezing her assets to preventing shopping, travel and other commerce in foreign countries; meanwhile, reports emerge of Assad's emails to friends where she boasts of the power of the Syrian regime, and that she is the real dictator.
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Pakistan's Imran Khan a Better-Looking Gadhafi: Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British author of the controversial novel The Satanic Verses, has drawn an unfavorable comparison between Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and Libya's slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi, implying that Khan is a dictator in waiting.

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