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POLITICS-CROATIA: Constitutional Cleansing Pledged
Croatia's newly elected president, Stjepan Mesic, has pledged to cleanse the country's constitution of excessive presidential powers.//REPEATING//DEVELOPMENT-GERMANY: Former Capital Gets A New Image
With Berlin the new headquarters for the German government and parliament, Bonn - the former west German capital - is struggling to fill the gap left behind.EUROPE – EDUCATION- Framework For Action Adopted
Delegates from some 40 countries, including ministers of education and social affairs, Wednesday adopted a Framework for Action whichrenewed a commitment for basic education and set new targets for the year 2015.DEVELOPMENT-GERMANY: Former Capital Gets A New Image
With Berlin the new headquarters for the German government and parliament, Bonn - the former west German capital - is struggling to fill the gap left behind.POLITICS-TURKEY/GREECE: Optimism As Relations Continue To Thaw
Optimism reigns in Turkish-Greek relations as Athens and Ankara carefully pave the way for the peaceful settlement of inflammable political issues which, in the past, have brought both countries to the brink of war.RIGHTS-SPAIN: Police Passive in Face of Racist Violence
Spain's police have yet to detain any suspects for taking part in the rash of violent racist attacks that began Saturday against Arab immigrants in the Andalucian city of El Ejido, located on the Mediterranean coast.POLITICS: Russia eyes lucrative Iraqi oil projects
Moscow's efforts to have United Nations sanctions against Iraq lifted almost stumbled and fell after a Russian tanker, suspected of smuggling Iraqi products was detained in the Gulf of Oman.///REPEATING///TRADE-GERMANY: Environment Technology Products Export Hit
Germany's new generation of Environment Technology (ET) products are becoming export hits, according to the federal environment ministry, which expects to encourage foreign buyers by launching a website.TRADE-GERMANY: Environment Technology Products Export Hit
Germany's new generation of Environment Technology (ET) products are becoming export hits, according to the federal environment ministry, which expects to encourage foreign buyers by launching a website.EDUCATION-POLAND: Stock Taking On Basic Education Provision
Delegates from some 40 countries, including ministers of education and social affairs, gather in the Polish capital this Sunday to take stock of basic education provision in Europe over the last decade.POLITICS-TURKEY: President Demirel Seeks Re-election
Turkish coalition leaders have agreed to amend the constitution to pave the way for the re-election of 76 year-old President Suleyman Demirel.POLITICS: Russia and US attempt to narrow difference
Russian Foreign Minister, Igor Ivanov, and US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, met in Moscow this week to try to narrow differences in bilateral relations which range from Chechnya to anti-missile defense and Iran.CULTURE-GREECE: Return of artifacts debated
Standing atop Lycabettus hill in the centre of Athens, the capital of Greece, looking down on the breathtaking Acropolis bathed in golden sunlight is a certainly a wondrous sight.CULTURE-GREECE: Return of artifacts debated
Standing atop Lycabettus hill in the centre of Athens, the capital of Greece, looking down on the breathtaking Acropolis bathed in golden sunlight is a certainly a wondrous sight.DEVELOPMENT-EU/ACP: Trade and Illegal Immigrants Discussed
Trade and repatriation of illegal immigrants are the major issues to be tackled at the European Union (EU) and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group negotiators meeting in Brussels, Belgium, this week.ECONOMY-RUSSIA: Harnessing Elderly Votes
In a move seen by political analysts as an attempt to harness the votes of Russia's 38 million pensioners, acting president Vladmir Putin has ordered a 20 percent increase in pensions and clearance of all arrears.POLITICS-TURKEY: Military justifies Hizbollah crack down
The Turkish military on Monday went before the country's National Security Council (MGK) to justify the recent crack-down on the fundamentalist Hizbollah group.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Brothers In Crime
Last month's slaying of controversial Serb criminal turned war hero, Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan (47), has sparked a debate on the use of well known criminals during the war that disintegrated the former Yugoslavia.POLITICS-CYPRUS: UN’s Annan Oversees Progress in Talks
United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan expressed his approval of the advances made during the first session of renewed negotiations on the issue of Cyprus, a Mediterranean island divided in two for 26 years./ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT / LITERATURE: In search of V.S. Naipaul
Last year a book portraying the writer V.S. Naipaul as snobbish, mean, and dismissive of the prospects of peoples and nations south of the equator, created a major stir.POLITICS-CROATIA: Voters Prepare For Presidential Polls
Croats go to the polls in February to elect a new president.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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