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Moody’s Investors Service on Monday lowered its ratings outlook for the European Union from stable to negative, as the bloc struggles to deal with the eurozone debt crisis. The credit […]
U.S.-based Human Rights Watch is calling for Turkey’s government to hold to account those responsible for serious human-rights violations during the country’s 1980 military coup and against Kurdish civilians in the […]
A draft law to restrict the general public’s access to chemicals that can be used to make home-made explosives was endorsed by the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee on September […]
The pollsters have it that Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta’s leftist Social Democratic Party will win the largest share of votes in parliamentary elections to be held on December 9 […]
The Independent Flight Attendants Organisation (UFO) which represents most cabin crew employed by German airline Lufthansa said that there would be further strike action on September 4 2012. Previous strike […]
The European Commission unveiled on September 3 2012 plans to deal with the exponential growth in mobile and wireless data traffic by enabling wireless technologies, including broadband, to share the […]
Turkey is following an increasingly aggressive policy of getting top museums around the world to return its heritage. Minister of Culture and Tourism Ertugrul Gunay says that in the last […]
Armenia says it is cutting all ties with Hungary for allowing an Azerbaijani soldier who killed an Armenian officer to return home. On Friday, Hungary sent the soldier back to […]
The opening of Sofia’s new metro underground railway line was celebrated by offering free rides to all users from the afternoon to the end of the day on August 31 […]
Lufthansa flights between Frankfurt and Sofia, including a flight arriving in the Bulgarian capital at 1pm and a scheduled departure at 1.40pm, were cancelled on August 31 2012 because of […]
