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- Microsoft appeals $1.4B EU antitrust fine
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it has appealed a $1.39 billion fine imposed in February by the European Commission for the company's failure to comply with a 2004 antitrust order.
- From Berlin to London to Paris, Europe-Israel ties are warming
By LESLIE SUSSER JTA Famed writer Isaac Bashevis Singer once said, Yiddish may be a dying language, but it is the only language I know well. Yiddish is my mother language and a mother is never really dead. For years weve heard that Yiddish is a dying
- Kinshasa - EU Ambassadors Celebrate Europe Day
every year, European Union (EU) ambassadors and officials held a press conference in Kinshasa on 8 May 2008. During the conference they explained the role and activities of the EU in the reconstruction of the DRC. French ambassador Mr. Bernard Prvost
- Nationalistic debate as Serbia heads to polls
Serbs will weigh in on whether to pursue a pro-European Union path or a more nationalistic, anti-Western route. This feature requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player and javascript-enabled browser. Correspondent Andrew Wander discusses the
- * MTS to launch Brazilian electronic bond market
MTS Group, a pan-European electronic trading platform for government bonds, has signed an agreement with the Brazilian Ministry of Finance for the creation of an electronic market dedicated to the trading of local currency sovereign securities issued by
- Austria to participate in EU mission in Kosovo
VIENNA, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Austria will send up to 25 police and10 members of the Justice Ministry to Kosovo, in light of the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) in Kosovo, According to the release of the Austrian Parliament Correspondence
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- Cubic to supply Poland with air combat trainers
Cubic Corp. will provide its latest air combat training system to the Polish Air Force under a $9.5 million contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force. According to the terms of the foreign military sales agreement, Cubic Defense Applications will supply the
- Rugby Malta National Rugby Team: Malta vs Poland
For the third time in Malta rugby?s short but exciting and successful history, the National team, sponsored by Cisk Lager, will play Poland at Hibs Ground, Kordin on Saturday, 10 May, 2008 at 3pm. Poland, ranked 36th in the IRB World Rankings have been
- Poland gets closer to implementing euro
Warsaw (Puls Biznesu) - Slovakia is about to implement euro. ECB report suggests that Poland may be the next one. Economists are not that optimistic. Poland is one of the three EU countries which have not entered EMU while their economic indicators, i.e.
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- Federer falls to Stepanek in Rome
ROME, May 9: World number one Roger Federer's hopes of winning his first Rome Masters were dashed on Friday when he was knocked out at the quarter-final stage 7-6 7-6 by unseeded Czech Radek Stepanek. The top-seeded Swiss lost the first set in the
- Federer the big casualty as seeds tumble in Rome Masters tennis
ROME (AFP) - Roger Federer was the biggest casualty as the seeds tumbled on a day of shocks at the Rome Masters on Friday. World number one Federer was downed 7-6, 7-6 by Czech Radek Stepanek while eighth seed James Blake fell to Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka
- Bratislava Stock Exchange (BSE), Indices, 02-09/05/2008
PRAGUE. MAY 9. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - The following table shows the results of the week's trading on the Bratislava Stock Exchange's SAX and SDX indices. BSE: SAX & SDX INDICES - 02-09/05/2008 Index Name 02.05.2008 09.05.2008 Weekly change SAX 446.31
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- F1: Massa sets pace in Turkey
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton narrowly fails to beat Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen to fastest time in second practice at the Turkish Grand Prix.
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- MOL picks 35% stake in ONGC's block in Himalayan foothills
NEW DELHI: Budapest-based MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc have taken a 35 per cent stake in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's onshore exploration block in the Himalayan foothills. MOL will take stake in block HF-ONN-2001/1, an ONGC press release said here.
- Senior Chinese leader meets former Hungarian prime minister
BUDAPEST, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese leader Jia Qinglin met here Friday afternoon with former Hungarian Prime Minister Medgyessy Peter on bilateral relations. Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative
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- Mending bridges in Mostar
The city of Mostar lies at a crossroads of cultures: just inland from the Adriatic coast, in the southern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mostar -- where Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks had lived in seeming harmony before the war, then suffered horribly when its warring neighborhoods turned the city into a killing zone -- provided me with one of the richest experiences of my travel year.
- EUX.TV Week 18: Serbia, Inflation, China
BRUSSELS (EUX.TV) -- Serbia moved a step closer to membership of the European Union this week, angering neighbour Bosnia which has still to make that step. Prizes were handed out in Brussels and Aachen for journalism and youth projects, while worries
- Bosnia-Herzegovina: Antidote to Croatia's crowds
(Tribune Media Services) -- These days Croatia's Dalmatian Coast is inundated with tourists -- and understandably so. But after a visit to Dubrovnik, the 'Pearl of the Adriatic,' I'm in the mood for a good Balkan adventure and decide to drive directly
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- Ukraine Cancels Vanco PSA
The Ukrainian government has canceled US-based Vanco Energy's production sharing agreement (PSA) for the Prykerchensky Block in the Black Sea, according to a ministry order published Thursday...
- Sunflower oil from Ukraine
The Food Standards Agency has today written to organisations representing suppliers and importers of cooking oils, to alert them to the presence in the UK of sunflower oil containing significant levels of mineral oil. The sunflower oil originated in
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- Elcoteq SE starts personnel negotiations in Estonia
European electronics manufacturer Elcoteq SE (OMX Helsinki:ELQAV) said on Friday (9 May) that it has decided to initiate procedures with its Tallinn-based personnel regarding compulsory holiday with partial pay and personnel reductions. Some 330 people
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AFP - Unseeded teenager Victoria Azarenka upset 15th seed Alona Bondarenko in straight sets to become the first player to reach the German Open semi-finals here on Friday.
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