Slow global growth to hit trade in 2012 and 2013, WTO says
Slowing global output growth has led World Trade Organization (WTO) economists to downgrade their 2012 forecast for world trade expansion
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Bulgarian torrent site named in report to US congress on internet piracy
Bulgarian torrent tracker site Zamunda has been named in a report to the United States congress by the working group
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China to continue supporting Europe’s recovery
China’s premier says his country will continue to help Europe resolve its debt crisis, indicating Beijing will not stop buying
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Russian democracy groups face tough times after USAID ouster
Russia has given the United States Agency for International Development until October 1, 2012 to close its operations and leave the country.
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Turkish polls show waning support for Ankara’s Syria policy
A recent opinion poll in Turkey found that only 18 percent of Turks back their government’s support for the Syrian
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Moscow asks Washington to end USAID programmes in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has enacted a series of restrictive laws since returning to office in May. He and the
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Russia Watch: ‘Russia’s Tibet’ opens to the outside world
Word of the killings of four American diplomats in Libya took 24 hours to reach me last week. That was
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US publishing of Katyn crime files should encourage other governments to open their archives, US ambassador to Poland says
US Ambassador in Warsaw Lee A. Feinstein said that he hopes that the publication of documents, that has long been
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Pussy Riot sentence is deeply disappointing political intimidation, members of European Parliament say
The human rights situation in Russia has deteriorated drastically in the past few months, with the adoption of a series
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