World Bank sanctions Serbian company for misconduct in Uganda project
The World Bank Group has announced the debarment of Energoprojekt Niskogradnja, a Serbian civil engineering and contracting company – for
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UN war crimes trial of Hadzic resumes
The trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic, the last fugitive sought by the United Nations Yugoslav war crimes
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Record interest in Nazi Holocaust Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
Officials at World War Two Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland say the site hosted a record number of tourists in
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Milky Way could contain 100 billion planets
It seems like hardly a week goes by without another planet being discovered in some far off stellar system, but
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Water found in two-billion-year-old Mars rock
Scientists examining a 2 billion-year-old rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara desert say it holds a large amount
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Investigators establish identity of one of accomplices in Bourgas Airport terrorist bombing
Investigators have established the identity of one of the accomplices in the July 2012 suicide bombing terrorist attack against a
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Countdown to first meteor shower of 2013
The U.S. space agency, NASA, says pieces of an asteroid that have been orbiting the Sun for hundreds of years
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US senate votes to avert ‘Fiscal Cliff’
The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan agreement to spare most Americans from steep tax hikes and delay across-the-board
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Russia acquits prison official in Magnitsky death
A Russian court has acquitted a top prison official charged in the death of whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009.
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