US Treasury Secretary urges Europe to boost growth
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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Day: January 7, 2014
Siderov involved in row with French diplomat, fracas at Varna Airport
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’s draft Penal Code amendments under fire
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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Former Romanian PM gets second prison term
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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Romania’s Basescu calls for internal debate on union with Moldova
Romanian president Traian Basescu called on January 6 2014 for an internal debate on union with the Republic of Moldova,
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Walking across the EU for child sex abuse awareness
Matthew McVarish will be walking across Europe on a 16 000 km journey until February 2015. So far he has
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Amid corruption scandal, Erdogan reassigns 350 Ankara police
Turkish state media reported Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reassigned nearly 350 police staff in Ankara as a widening
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Turkey mired in political division over retrial
A statement released by the Turkish armed forces Monday said recent convictions of hundreds of senior officers accused of seeking
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Triple-star system may answer questions about gravity
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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