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Eight people were killed Sunday in clashes during Turkey’s local elections. Voting was peaceful throughout most of Turkey, but feuds broke out in two villages near Turkey’s southeastern border with […]
United States secretary of state Victoria Nuland is due in Sofia on March 31 to meet senior Bulgarian government officials on the eve of a Nato ministerial meeting at which […]
Andrej Kiska will be the president of Slovakia for the next five years. Kiska, who is the first-ever independent candidate with no political background whatsoever to win the presidential election, […]
The European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol has warned of security risks related to the end of Windows XP support. After April 8 2014, Windows will stop supporting its Windows […]
Turkish citizens go to the polls in local elections on March 30 2014. The electoral system of local elections in Turkey is simple. There is no second round. The candidate […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are scheduled to meet in Paris Sunday as Washington and Moscow work toward a political solution to the […]
Andrej Kiska will be the president of Slovakia for the next five years, preliminary results published by the Statistics Office show. Kiska, who is the first-ever independent candidate with no […]
Vitali Klitschko has withdrawn from the May 25 presidential race in Ukraine to endorse fellow millionaire member of parliament Petro Poroshenko. Klitschko, the world heavyweight boxing champion and head of […]
Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has the largest share of support, 17.5 per cent, ahead of the Bulgarian Socialist Party’s (BSP) 15.2 per cent, in the runup to Bulgaria’s European […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at second reading on March 28 amendments to the country’s Consumer Loans Act, which set a ceiling the loan interest rates and required banks to print the […]
