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Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has agreed to pay a $60 million fine to the US government in order to end an investigation into bribes it paid outside the US, illegal under […]
Greece says its jobless rate hit 23 per cent in May, an all-time high for the debt-ridden country. The newest figure — up from just under 17 per cen ...
In the absence of any news concerning the investigation of the suicide bombing at the Sarafovo airport in Bourgas, Bulgarian media has been hungrily s ...
The online activist group “Anonymous” has shut down three government websites in retaliation for last week’s government shutdown of the popular ...
Standard & Poor’s ratings agency has affirmed Poland’s foreign currency rating at A-/A-2′ , while maintained the country’s local currency sovereign credit ratings at A/A-1, the agency said in a […]
Hungarian internet users searching for “whores” (kurvák) or “gangsters” (gengszterek) found themselves directed to the website of the ruling Fidesz party and the Catholic Church this week. This was the […]
U.S. authorities now say the gunman who killed six worshippers at a Sikh temple last weekend killed himself after being shot by police. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday […]
A Moscow judge says she will issue a verdict in the controversial trial of three Russian feminist punk rockers on August 17th. The three could spend up to seven years […]
Scorching summer heat, high winds and alleged negligence have caused a number of wildfires in South Eastern Europe, leading to some guests quitting hotels in Ouranoupolis near Mount Athos in […]
