Russia Watch: Why does the Kremlin defend the suspects in the Magnitsky case?
Many countries have mafias. I’ve reported on gangsters in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. I’ve spent time mulling the human landscapes
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Blanka Tunnel threatens relics: Dig unearths problems with Prague city funding for archaeology
Archaeologists conducting research on the Blanka Tunnel construction site have made several important excavations, revealing new knowledge on Prague’s ancient
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Socialists, Dogan’s party table motion of no confidence in Borissov Cabinet over CVM report
Seventy-four members of Parliament, mostly from the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party and Ahmed Dogan’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms, have
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Interpol deploying team to assist Bulgarian investigation into suicide terrorist bomb attack on Israeli tour bus
Interpol is to deploy an Incident Response Team (IRT) to Bulgaria to assist national authorities in their investigation into the
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UN Security Council extends UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus until early 2013
The United Nations Security Council agreed on July 19 2012 to extend the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus until January31
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Germany approves Spanish bank bailout
The German parliament has approved the eurozone’s $122 billion bailout for the struggling Spanish banking system. Lawmakers in Germany, the
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Strikes to disrupt Olympics transit
British border officials have announced they will conduct a 24-hour strike the day before the London Olympics begin, threatening to
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United Nations Security Council unanimously condemns terrorist attack in Bulgaria
Members of the United Nations Security Council have unanimously condemned the terrorist attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in
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Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria
Russia and China have vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have imposed non-military sanctions on Syria in
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