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Polish banks to tighten credit criteria – survey

November 7, 2012November 7, 2012 The Warsaw Voice

Polish banks expect to tighten credit criteria in all market segments in Q4, the central bank NBP said in a

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Slovakia: Filmmaker faces prosecution

November 7, 2012November 7, 2012 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator

The sound engineer working on ‘The Disease of the Third Power’, a critical documentary about what its creators call the “black

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NASA makes it easier to spot space station

November 7, 2012November 7, 2012 VOANews

NASA is making it easier to spot the International Space Station (ISS) with the naked eye. The US space agency is offering a

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Ukraine orders partial vote re-run

November 7, 2012November 7, 2012 VOANews

Ukraine’s outgoing parliament has ordered a partial re-run of voting in five disputed districts despite claims by the opposition that

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Ukraine feminists campaign against sex tourism

November 7, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

At first, protests by Ukrainian feminist group Femen were ignored by the media.  But two years ago the women started taking off

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UN expert calls on Bosnia and Herzegovina to accelerate redress for women victims of wartime violence

November 7, 2012November 7, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Noting that heightened levels of domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina are often linked to the country’s legacy of its

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Long queues as voters head to the polls in 2012 US presidential election

November 7, 2012 VOANews

Voters across the United States are heading to the polls Tuesday, to decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama or

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Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council courts controversy with interim chief prosecutor appointment

November 6, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgaria’s recently-elected Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has wasted little time in showing its decisions will be as hotly debated as

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New archaeological finds in Bulgaria’s Sliven, Stara Zagora

November 6, 2012November 6, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Although the archaeological digs season in Bulgaria has wrapped up, work on existing attractions has yielded new finds, Bulgarian National

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