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BRUSSELS, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Retail sales rose 0.7 percent month to month in August in the eurozone and 0.4 percent in the European Union, the data office Eurostat said Thursday.
From August 2012, retail sales dropped 0.3 percent in the 17-member currency union. Sales, however, rose 0.3 percent in the European Union from August 2012.
The EU is a 28-member region that included 27 members in June, as Croatia joined on July 1.
Data was also unavailable or held back from the Czech Republic, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Hungary and the Netherlands.
Among reporting countries, the largest increases month to month were posted by Portugal with a gain of 4.8 percent. Luxembourg, with a decline of 1.4 percent, posted the largest month to month drop.
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VICTORIA, British Columbia, Oct. 4 (UPI) --
The government of British Columbia said it will launch a study to determine emissions in Kitimat, the hub of the province's proposed liquefied natural sector.
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BRASILIA, Brazil, Oct. 5 (UPI) --
Bradar, a company controlled by Embraer Defense & Security, is to map areas in Brazil subject to natural disasters and monitor environmental preservation areas.
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Properties repossessed by lenders in the first quarter took an average of 477 days to complete the foreclosure process, up from 414 days in the previous...
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Nobody likes spending cuts but the champion of that attitude is clearly President Barack Obama, who seems to have a very clear pain-avoidance agenda.
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