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Earlier I wrote about political rights, citizen liberties and press freedom in Balkans (”Freedom in Balkans”). To travel from one country to other is a fundamental freedom restricted however more or less depending about which passport the traveler...
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A trio of Canadian adventurers said Friday they have set a new record for fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole, after suffering through whiteout conditions,...
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AP, United Nations
The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Thursday night calling for an immediate and durable cease-fire between Hamas militants and Israeli forces now fighting...
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AP, Buenos Aires
An Italian climber and an Argentine guide both died when a storm trapped five mountaineers just below the summit of the highest peak in the Americas, an Italian...
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AP, Vancouver
The leader of a polygamous community in western Canada said Thursday that authorities are engaging in religious persecution by charging him with practicing polygamy.
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AP, Mexico City
Ana Maria Calvo has fought unsuccessfully for seven months to correct her husband’s name on her child’s birth certificate.
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AP, Jerusalem
The U.N. suspended aid shipments in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and the Red Cross restricted its convoys after their trucks came under Israeli fire. The threat of a...
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AP, Jerusalem
The U.N. suspended aid shipments in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and the Red Cross restricted its convoys after their trucks came under Israeli fire. The threat of a...
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AP, Madrid
Spanish police say a convicted Colombian drug baron has been shot dead in a Madrid hospital.
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AP, San Jose
A strong earthquake shook Costa Rica on Thursday, killing a child and sending frightened residents running into the streets of the capital as windows shattered and...
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AP, Buenos Aires
At least one Italian climber died when a storm trapped five mountaineers just below the summit of the highest peak in the Americas, authorities said Thursday.
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AP, Rabat
The official Moroccan news agency says an Islamist convicted in the deadly 2003 Casablanca bombings who escaped from prison has been caught in neighboring Algeria and...
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AP, Paris
Gaston Lenotre, considered one of France’s best-ever pastry-makers, died Thursday. He was 88.
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AP, San Juan
The long-running hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has grown to 30 prisoners, the highest number in months.
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A strong earthquake shook Costa Rica on Thursday, shattering windows, cracking walls and sending frightened residents running into the streets of the capital.
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AP, Cairo
Rebels and aid workers say government airplanes have dropped bombs along a northern strip in Darfur. It’s the first such report of violence in weeks.
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Five months after Russia crushed the Georgian army in the foothills of the Caucasus, Moscow is once again embroiled in a conflict with a former Soviet neighbor: waging...
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Two suspects have been arrested in a double murder of the principal and a teacher at a Budapest school, police officials said Thursday.
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AP, San Jose
A strong earthquake has shaken the Costa Rican capital of San Jose, sending frightened residents running into streets.
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AP, Tirana
An Albanian civil rights group said Thursday it had sued the government to force it to divulge information on an alleged CIA abduction five years ago.
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Gaston Lenotre, considered one of France’s best-ever pastry-makers, has died at the age of 88.
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A team of international monitors is ending its 16-year mission in Georgia after Russia refused to allow an extension of the assignment in a dispute over two...
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Turkey’s president said Tuesday that natural gas from Iran and Iraq could help fill a pipeline that would transport the commodity from the Caucasus, through...
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Recently I was searching some information about Transnistria - aka Pridnestrovie - and found a probably official web-portal of this not recognized state. Originally...
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The breakup of the former Soviet Union - which Vladamir Putin wants us to believe is a bigger tragedy than the Holocaust - resulted in the achievement of full...
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Police stormed a small hotel where armed militants were blockaded in the southern Russian province of Dagestan on Saturday, and two rebels and a policeman died, the...
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On 2nd Dec. 2008, the Foreign Ministers of NATO have decided during their “transatlantic dinner” that Ukraine and Georgia will not get the NATO Membership...
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The EU must significantly boost relations with Ukraine and five other ex-Soviet republics and make easing Moscow’s sway over them a priority, a European...
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AP, Ankara
Hungary’s prime minister says he is hopeful that talks over a pipeline that would transport natural gas from the Caucasus to Western markets will resume smoothly...
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When I sometimes in my blogs wrote about Transdnistria (officially Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic – PMR) the most common feedback has been following:
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I was watching Friday (7th November 2008) news from Georgia’s capital Tbilisi where some 10,000 demonstrators were marching against current political leadership...
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The war with Russia might have been brutal and brief for tiny Georgia yet the economic and political repercussions are enormous with the Georgian opposition blaming...
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The Caucasus remains to be tense as a powerful blast rocked the North Ossetian capital of Vladkavkaz killing at least eleven people and injuring several others. The ...
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AP, Brussels
The EU’s top energy official will travel to Turkey and Azerbaijan Wednesday to show Europe’s commitment to a pipeline that would transport natural gas from...
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AP, Brussels
The EU’s top energy official travels to Turkey on Wednesday to press Ankara to quickly complete talks about transporting natural gas from the Caucasus to Western...
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AP, Rostov-on-don
Rebel attacks in Russia’s restive southern region of Chechnya killed one Russian soldier and wounded 10 other servicemen and police, officials said Friday.
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AP, Rostov-on-don
At least two Russian soldiers were killed and 10 others were wounded Saturday when rebels ambushed a military convoy in a volatile Russian province near Chechnya,...
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AP, Rostov-on-don
A strong earthquake hit Chechnya and other parts of Russia’s North Caucasus Saturday, killing at least 12 people and damaging scores of hospitals, schools and...
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AP, Moscow
Officials say a strong earthquake has hit Russia’s North Caucasus region, an uncommon occurrence for the region. No reports of damage or injuries have been...
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A Chechen woman cooks in a yard near near houses damaged by an earthquake in the village of Mayrtup, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of the regional capital Grozny, Russia, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. A strong earthquake hit Chechnya and other parts of...
