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Turkish investor ready to invest about Hr 2 billion in Odesa-Reni highway construction

"This is a large amount of investment," he said. "For understanding: $3 billion is needed to build a highway with its slip roads and all the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Turkey must pay slain journalist’s family

The verdict also awarded the compensation to Hrant Dink’s family because of a lack of respect for freedom of expression, and for failure to conduct a …
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Cuba’s leaders lay out details for layoffs

Many of the workers tossed from state jobs into the marketplace could see their new enterprises fail within a year, officials acknowledge. The …
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Nigeria: Police arrest suspected sect members

Borno state police commissioner Ibrahim Abudu told The Associated Press that all the men arrested over the weekend confessed to being members of …
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George Michael gets 8 weeks jail for drug driving

The singer pleaded guilty last month to driving under the influence and possession of cannabis following a July 4 collision between his Range Rover …
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French intelligence queried on scandal source hunt

Jean-Claude Marin, a Paris prosecutor, told reporters of his request a day after the newspaper Le Monde accused President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office …
Reuters

Farmers, food producers, retailers initiate subsidies for needy

The state is to allocate UAH 2-3 billion to support low-income citizens, which account for a fifth of the country’s population, under this …
Interfax-Ukraine

Romanian public sector workers to go on strike

Sebastian Oprescu, chairman of the National Union of Public Workers, told the Associated Press workers from hundreds of state institutions will …
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Grain, meat prices a threat to world’s hungry

"The recent increase in food prices, if it persists, will create additional obstacles in the fight to further reduce hunger," the United Nations …
Reuters

Indian forces fire on, over protesters in Kashmir

However, hundreds of anti-India protesters took to the streets of the region’s main city of Srinagar and half a dozen other places in the region. …
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Greece raises $1.5 billion in debt sale

The treasury bill sale, originally for €900 million,— was oversubscribed 4.54 times — compared to 3.64 times for the last 26-week T-bill issue in …
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Anti-immigrant wave spreads across Europe

But in the German capital, the founding of a movement modelled on the anti-immigrant party of Dutch populist Geert Wilders was a small political …
Reuters

EU body calls France’s Gypsy expulsions ‘disgrace’

EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said she was appalled by the expulsions. "I am personally convinced that the commission will have no choice but …
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Former Polish prime-minister denies existence of CIA prison

Leszek Miller’s comments come after The Associated Press reported last week that the USS Cole bombing plotter Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was subjected to …
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Obama children’s book ‘Of Thee I Sing’ out Nov. 16

"Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters" is a tribute to 13 groundbreaking Americans, from the first president, George Washington, to baseball great …
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Plane carrying 51 crashes in Venezuela; 36 survive

Workers at the state-run Sidor steel foundry pulled people from the smoking wreckage of the plane owned by Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, and …
Reuters

South Pakistan faces new flood threat

As floodwaters make their way to the Arabian Sea, new towns in Sindh province are being inundated as embankments constructed to protect cities and …
Reuters

Shark attack survivors don’t forget but do forgive

They are shark attack survivors, a band of nine thrown together in an unlikely and ironic mission to conserve the very creatures that ripped their …
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