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Cash-and-carry wholesaler Booker's profit jumps 13 percent (Reuters) - Booker Group Plc, Britain's biggest cash-and-carry wholesaler, reported a 13 percent rise in full-year profit, helped by demand from small retailers and growing online sales. Booker, which runs over 170 branches supplying caterers, convenience stores, grocers, restaurants and pubs, has defied the downturn in the UK cash and carry market and managed to grow sales, as Britons ... Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival CANNES, France (AP) ? Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Switching from scandals, Obama to address drones and Guantanamo By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will seek to draw attention away from a series of domestic scandals with a speech on Thursday that defends the U.S. use of drones abroad and lays out a vision for closing the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ... Analysis: From opera to exercises, U.S. and China deepen military ties By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even as the United States accuses China of military espionage and worries about Beijing's more strident posture in the Asia-Pacific region, the ties between the armed forces of the two nations have been getting closer. Direct contact between China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) and some of its potential adversaries has ... C C |