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Year: 2013

Business 

Cypriot shipping industry navigating uncharted waters

June 28, 2013June 28, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus

The banking crisis in Cyprus has been having a knock-on effect on shipping companies operating from the island, the majority

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Europe 

EU leaders reach budget deal

June 28, 2013 VOANews

European Union leaders have reached a deal on a $1.3 trillion, seven-year budget. All 27 leaders unanimously approved the deal

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Europe 

Europe opts for gas pipeline running from Azerbaijan to southern Italy

June 28, 2013 VOANews energy

A European consortium aiming to build a natural gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Western Europe has rejected a costlier, longer

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Leisure 

Film review: Monsters University

June 28, 2013June 27, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Monsters University is having a hard time fitting in. Director Dan Scanlon’s first picture for Pixar Animation Studios simply does

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Leisure 

Film review: The Bling Ring

June 28, 2013June 27, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Three of Sofia Coppola’s five films have been about teenagers. The Virgin Suicides, her début feature, was a poetic period

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Bulgaria 

Big flail: Bulgaria’s parties in power hit out in bid to defend themselves

June 27, 2013October 30, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Peevski protests

Behind a widened cordon sanitaire guarded by lines of police, Bulgaria’s half-empty Parliament – pelted with vegetables by protesters –

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Bulgaria 

German tourist in coma after falling from balcony in Bulgarian hotel

June 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff beaches

A 22-year-old German tourist was in coma after falling four storeys from the balcony of his hotel room in Bulgaria’s

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Europe 

Czech government faces uphill battle to pass needed reforms

June 27, 2013June 27, 2013 Christine Kovarikova and Kevin Livingston of The Prague Post Czech Republic

President Milos Zeman tapped former Finance Minister and economist Jiri Rusnok June 25 as prime minister of a caretaker government,

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Perspectives World 

Welcome to Moscow’s transit lounge, Mr. Snowden

June 27, 2013October 30, 2019 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

Uncle Volodya went to Finland this week and told three fairy tales. – Gays have equal rights in Russia. –

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