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Calling all creative minds in cyberspace

May 26, 2013May 27, 2013 Daniel Bardsley for The Prague Post Czech Republic

First there was LinkedIn, then Myspace, then Facebook and now … Toadsquare. Prague-based Czech-Australian Jane Hrouda has launched a website

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Telescopes spot colliding galaxies

May 25, 2013May 27, 2013 VOANews final frontier

Astronomers have gotten a rare glimpse of two distant and ancient galaxies merging. The galaxies, called HXMM01, are about 11

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Flight from Leipzig skids off runway at Bulgaria’s Varna Airport

May 24, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Varna

An Air Via aircraft, a charter flight from Leipzig with 172 passengers aboard, left the runway at Varna Airport, Northeastern

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Bulgarians celebrate authors of Cyrillic script on May 24: Photos

May 24, 2013May 24, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

On May 24, Bulgarian held its annual celebrations of the public holiday honouring Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Day of

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Bee health: EU-wide restrictions on pesticides use to enter into force on December 1

May 24, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

A restriction on the use of three pesticides belonging to the neonicotinoid family was adopted on May 24 2013 by

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Romania expels ‘cowboy’ jihadists

May 24, 2013May 27, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Two foreigners suspected of planning terrors attacks have been arrested and then expelled by the Romanian authorities, the Romanian home

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Russia Watch: Dagestan – Russia’s wild but beguiling southern frontier

May 24, 2013October 30, 2019 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

Journalists love superlatives, and Russia’s southernmost republic, Dagestan, obliges. Of Russia’s 83 regions, Dagestan last year recorded the highest level

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Amnesty International: Relations between Albanians and Macedonians have deteriorated

May 23, 2013May 27, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Amnesty International has launched criticism and expressed its concern about the state of human rights and the deterioration of inter

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Forms of legal prostitution heighten human trafficking risks in poorer EU states

May 23, 2013May 24, 2013 Clare Speak of The Prague Post

When an Austrian businessman announced plans to transform the sex industry from “grocer to supermarket” by opening Europe’s largest brothel

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