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ING to seek separate listing for insurance arm 06/05/2014 09:48am • TOBY STERLING Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) -- ING Groep NV says it is proceeding with a plan to move its remaining insurance operations into a separate listed company, NN Group.The Dutch bank and insurance group has no choice under an agreement with European regulators to compensate for having re Europe's central bank weighs anti-deflation steps 06/05/2014 03:10am • BY DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The European Central Bank is all but certain Thursday to cut interest rates to try to boost ultra-low inflation and strengthen the wobbly recovery in the 18 countries that use the euro.Analysts say the bank might take its stimulus efforts Business Highlights 06/04/2014 07:30pm • The Associated Press ___Will that be a 6-bedroom suite or just a couch?NEW YORK (AP) -- Private elevators, personal shopping assistants, six-bedroom suites with their own postal codes. Even helipads. This is what the super-rich have come to expect from hotels.For others, vacation now means renting Ohio man held, accused of faking diplomatic papers 06/04/2014 07:20pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An Ohio man who says he is the keeper of the seal of St. Peter and immune from U.S. law was ordered held without bond Wednesday on charges that he issued hundreds of fraudulent diplomatic credentials to people who paid to be part of his movement.James T. McBride, 60, who is l South Dakota candidate charged in election case 06/04/2014 06:51pm • DIRK LAMMERS Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota authorities on Wednesday arrested defeated U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth and charged her with multiple counts of perjury and filing false election documents, saying she fraudulently attested to gathering voter signatures w Reality of 'beautiful game' turns ugly in Brazil 06/04/2014 04:42pm • TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE, Brazil (AP) -- The talented midfielder at small Brazilian club Presidente Prudente rushes to finish his rounds delivering food for a local restaurant so he can make it to practice in time. His teammate has to leave training quickly so he can get to Putin looks east to bolster ties with North Korea 06/04/2014 02:10pm • ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press TOKYO (AP) -- Angry with the West's response over Ukraine and eager to diversify its options, Russia is moving rapidly to bolster ties with North Korea in a diplomatic nose-thumbing that could complicate the U.S.-led effort to squeeze Pyongyang into giving up its nucle Putin looks east to bolster ties with North Korea 06/04/2014 02:10pm • ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press TOKYO (AP) -- Angry with the West's response over Ukraine and eager to diversify its options, Russia is moving rapidly to bolster ties with North Korea in a diplomatic nose-thumbing that could complicate the U.S.-led effort to squeeze Pyongyang into giving up its nucle EU executive says Lithuania ready to join euro 06/04/2014 12:50pm • LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) -- Lithuania welcomed a preliminary decision Wednesday by the European Union to accept the Baltic country's application to adopt the joint currency.Olli Rehn, the EU's top monetary affairs official, said Lithuania is ready to become the euro's 1 Hillshire to talk with Tyson, Pilgrim's Pride 06/03/2014 03:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Hillshire Brands says it will hold separate talks with Pilgrim's Pride and Tyson Foods, as the two meat processing heavyweights engage in a bidding war for the maker of Jimmy Dean sausages and Ball Park hot dogs.The announcement by Hillshire comes a day after Pilgrim's Pride raised Eurozone inflation drop seals deal for ECB 06/03/2014 02:24pm • DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Another unexpected drop in inflation in the 18-country eurozone has made it a near certainty that the European Central Bank will act this week to support the economy.The annual inflation rate fell to 0.5 percent in May, below the 0.6 percent Russia's Gazprom hails progress in Ukraine talks 06/03/2014 09:11am • NATALIYA VASILYEVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's gas giant Gazprom on Tuesday hailed progress to resolve a crisis that is threatening to cut gas supplies to Ukraine and could disrupt the flow of gas to Europe.Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov told reporters Russia has been encouraged by Retiring royalty: Kings and queens can just quit? 06/03/2014 01:16am • MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The decision of Spanish King Juan Carlos to step down in favor of his son, Felipe, makes him the latest European monarch to decide to end his days in retirement and not on the throne.Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands may have started a trend Russia, Ukraine inch closer to gas deal 06/03/2014 12:42am • JUERGEN BAETZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) -- Russia and Ukraine on Monday made substantial progress toward reaching an agreement on a lower price for gas deliveries and the payment of outstanding debt by Kiev, in a bid to avert a disruption of gas supplies that could also affect western Europe, a AP Interview: Monty Python swansong will surprise 06/02/2014 04:14pm • JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- Everybody expects the Spanish Inquisition. And as with all things Monty Python, fans need to expect the unexpected, too.Next month the surviving Monty Python members reunite onstage for the first time in almost 35 years -- and, they say, the last time eve