Global youth unemployment worsening, ILO says
Unemployment rates among young people will get even worse globally as the spillover of the euro crisis spreads from advanced
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UN agencies call for swift international action to prevent repeat of world food crisis
Co-ordinated international action is urgently needed to prevent rising food prices from hurting tens of millions of people over the
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European Central Bank may buy bonds
The European Central Bank could act this week to buy the bonds of debt-plagued governments in the 17-nation euro currency
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European Commission opens antitrust investigation into Gazprom
The European Commission (EC) said on September 4 2012 that it had opened formal proceedings to investigate whether Gazprom, the
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Putin’s palaces, yachts, cars and watches: An opposition guide to Russia’s rich and famous
“I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night.” Vladimir Putin summing up his first
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Further fallout from Armenian – Azerbaijani – Hungarian controversy over pardoned killer
About 50 people from the Armenian community in Bulgaria held a protest outside the Hungarian embassy in Sofia on September
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Hungarian government seeks refund of Jewish reparations
The Hungarian government is calling for the refund of millions of dollars paid out to the US-based Claims Conference to
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10 traffic cops in Bulgaria’s Rousse fired for taking bribes
Ten traffic police in the Bulgarian city of Rousse have been dismissed for taking bribes, the senior Interior Ministry official
Read moreHarsh winter, hot summer push up prices of Bulgarian grapes – and wines and rakiya
Bulgaria’s prolonged below-freezing winter temperatures at the start of 2012, followed by scorching hot weather in summer, mean lower grape
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