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Prosecutors in the Bulgarian town of Kyustendil were to ask a court on August 28 to order the remand in custody of five men who were detained near the Bulgarian-Macedonian […]
Vassiliki Thanou, Greece’s top supreme court judge, was sworn in Thursday as a caretaker head of the government, becoming the country’s first female prime minister. Thanou and her cabinet will […]
After five months of talks with private creditors and the unpredictable consequence of a debt moratorium looming, Ukrainian finance minister Natalie Jaresko triumphantly announced on August 27 that she had […]
Bases of heavy military equipment of American armed forced will be built in Poland mid-2016, defence minister Tomasz Siemoniak told PAP Polish news agency on Thursday. Polish-American talks on the […]
Bulgaria’s much-postponed gas inter-connector pipeline with Romania has run into a new delay, with the company picked to drill under the Danube River reluctant to sign a contract, a report […]
Way back in 1984, LGBT rights still seemed like a distant dream somewhere over the rainbow. At the same time, UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher was weakening the power of […]
Nobody ever pretends that the National Lampoon Vacation film series is classic cinema, but with the latest entry, simply called Vacation, it hits a new low. The torch, as it […]
The accused in the July 30 murder of British expatriate Janet Bennett in the Bulgarian village of Malomir was found dead in custody on August 25, in what was described […]
German chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting Thursday with leaders of Balkan nations to discuss Europe’s worst migration crisis since World War 2. The meeting takes place in Vienna, Austria, on […]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s name won’t appear on any of the ballot papers Turks will be presented with on November 1 but no one here doubts that the parliamentary elections — […]
