EU to donate Nobel Peace Prize money to benefit children in war zones
The European Union is to donate the eight million Swedish kronor (about 930 000 euro) award given to it for
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Romanian football club owners, agents handed heavy sentences
Eight prominent Romanian football club owners and football agents were handed heavy sentences by an appeals court in Bucharest on
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Strikes across Europe against unemployment, austerity measures
Thousands of workers are holding coordinated strikes in countries across Europe to protest their governments’ deep spending cuts and tax
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Secessionist rhetoric on the rise in Bosnia and Herzegovina, UN Security Council told
Political leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina are failing to produce what they should be 17 years after the signing of
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Greece sells bonds to avoid default on November 16
Cash-strapped Greece has raised the money it needs to help it avoid a default later this week, but says it
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Syrian unified opposition group gets welcome from EU, but awaits recognition, financial and military support
France, the United Kingdom and Bulgaria are among individual European Union countries that have added their statements to the EU’s
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EU puts year-long freeze on airline carbon tax
The European Union is putting a year-long freeze on a controversial rule that all airlines flying in and out of
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Two more victims of Smolensk crash exhumed
Polish military prosecutors said Monday that they had exhumed remains of another two victims of the 2010 Smolensk, Russia, plane
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South Stream Hungarian pipeline approval a ‘long-term benefit’
Following the final investment decision being approved for the South Stream gas pipeline from Russia, deputy chairman of the Gazprom
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