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Day: January 7, 2014

Business 

US Treasury Secretary urges Europe to boost growth

January 7, 2014 Lisa Bryant of VOANews

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is urging Europe to boost growth and shore up financial backstops he says are key

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Bulgaria 

Siderov involved in row with French diplomat, fracas at Varna Airport

January 7, 2014February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Volen Siderov

Volen Siderov, leader of Bulgaria’s ultranationalist Ataka party, was involved in a scuffle with a fellow passenger in a runway

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s draft Penal Code amendments under fire

January 7, 2014February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

Draft amendments to Bulgaria’s Penal Code have come under fire from human rights groups and minority political parties on a

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Europe 

Former Romanian PM gets second prison term

January 7, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Former Romanian PM Adrian Nastase (2000-2004) was sentenced on January 6 2014 to a further four years in prison for

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Europe 

Romania’s Basescu calls for internal debate on union with Moldova

January 7, 2014February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Moldova, Romania

Romanian president Traian Basescu called on January 6 2014 for an internal debate on union with the Republic of Moldova,

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People 

Walking across the EU for child sex abuse awareness

January 7, 2014February 11, 2014 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post

Matthew McVarish will be walking across Europe on a 16 000 km journey until February 2015. So far he has

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World 

Amid corruption scandal, Erdogan reassigns 350 Ankara police

January 7, 2014January 7, 2014 VOANews Turkey

Turkish state media reported Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reassigned nearly 350 police staff in Ankara as a widening

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World 

Turkey mired in political division over retrial

January 7, 2014February 11, 2014 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

A statement released by the Turkish armed forces Monday said recent convictions of hundreds of senior officers accused of seeking

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World 

Triple-star system may answer questions about gravity

January 7, 2014January 7, 2014 VOANews final frontier

The discovery of a three-star system may yield clues that help scientists define the true nature of gravity. The system, which

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