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- Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline, a huge project nearing achievement
ALGIERS- The huge project 'Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline' (TSGP), which is due to carry natural gas from Africa to Europe, has significantly progressed towards its full achievement with the intergovernmental agreement signed between Algeria, Nigeria and
- EU to lift ban Indonesia's Garuda, three other carriers
Jakarta - The European Union will soon partially lift a blanket ban on Indonesian airlines, imposed in 2007 after a series of deadly air accidents, the Indonesian Transport Ministry said Saturday. The EU's Air Safety Committee has recommended that the
- 109 new A/H1N1 cases confirmed in Europe
STOCKHOLM, July 4 (Xinhua) -- A European health agency said Sunday that 109 new A/H1N1 flu cases were reported in European countries within the last 24 hours. Of the new cases, 25 were confirmed in Greece, 16 in Italy, 12 respectively in Ireland and
- In Moldova, Helping Women in Jeopardy
The answer is: Moldova. The question is: What is the most destitute country in Europe? And the category is: Needless Suffering. That?s how it might go if this were the game show Jeopardy. But life in a place like Moldova is far from a game. A former
- airBaltic to start flights from Riga to Tartu
airBaltic will launch nonstop flights between Riga and the second largest city in Estonia, Tartu, on 3 July, offering connections to destinations in western Europe, Scandinavia, the CIS and the Mediterranean region. airBaltic will provide nonstop flights
- Ivo Sanader: Croatian leader who broke with war past
Sanader declined to spell out the reasons for his move but hinted at frustration with Croatia's stalled bid to become the European Union's next member by 2011. Zagreb -- Ivo Sanader, who resigned as Croatia's prime minister last week, is credited with
- Sweden kicks off EU presidency in institutional fog
The most urgent problem facing Sweden's presidency is that it risks finding itself with a lame duck president of the European Commission. Stockholm -Sweden kicked off its six-month European Union presidency last week amid fears the bloc's unresolved
- Driving in Europe this summer? Check the rules of the road
You're off the aircraft and you're thinking that the most dangerous part of the holiday is behind you. Yet statistics suggest the opposite is true, particularly if you are hiring a car at your destination. In 2006, which provides the most recent figures
- New easyJet route to Manchester for 'most efficient' Copenhagen
easyJet is to open a new route from Copenhagen to Manchester, flying six weekly frequencies. The announcement coincides with the airport being named Europe's most efficient airport by the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS). This was the second time in
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- Poland's first married couple start action group
Poland's first married gay couple have started a new UK political action group, specifically designed to help their peers back home. Andrew Gilliver news. PinkPaper.com 3 July 2009 Poland's first married gay couple have started a new UK political action
- Czech Airlines' weekend discount - save 25%
Warsaw, Krakow, Helsinki and Oslo - Czech Airlines has swiped 25 per cent off the cost of flights to these cities this weekend. Book by Sunday, July 5, and travel until September 20. Czech Airlines flies from two airports in the UK - London Heathrow and
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- Czech Airlines' weekend discount - save 25%
Warsaw, Krakow, Helsinki and Oslo - Czech Airlines has swiped 25 per cent off the cost of flights to these cities this weekend. Book by Sunday, July 5, and travel until September 20. Czech Airlines flies from two airports in the UK - London Heathrow and
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- Orthodox leader sees progress on Estonian dispute
ISTANBUL, Jul 4 (Reuters) The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians said today progress had been made in talks with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church on their dispute over the Estonian Church. The two patriarchs put on a united front
- Attack on U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan kills two soldiers
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey -- Insurgents armed with rockets, mortars and a truck bomb staged an unusual frontal attack on a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan today, killing two American soldiers and forcing the defenders to
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- Hungarian 1956 Revolution leader Kiraly dead at age 97
Washington - General Bela Kiraly, one of the last surviving activists of the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet rule, died Saturday at age 97, the Hungarian Defence Ministry said. During the short period that Imre Nagy was prime minister
- Hungary police disperse far-right protest
BUDAPEST, July 4 (Reuters) - Hungarian police used teargas to disperse a protest by a banned far-right group in the centre of Budapest on Saturday and detained close to 200 people, police and witnesses said. National news agency MTI said police also
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- Hungary, Slovenia eye gas, power grid links
BUDAPEST: Hungary and Slovenia are examining the possibility of linking their gas and electricity networks to enhance the safety of supply, their prime ministers said yesterday. Hungary, which gets 80 percent of its gas from Russia, supplied Bosnia,
- US, NATO losing in Afghanistan, Ashdown says
LONDON: A top British diplomat says that all foreign troops are losing in Afghanistan because their leaders do not know how to handle the war. 'We're losing,' Paddy Ashdown, the former British representative for Bosnia, said on Tuesday. He also added the
- Hungary, Slovenia consider gas and power grid links
Hungary, which gets 80% of its gas from Russia, supplied Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia with natural gas in January through oil and gas company MOL during the Ukraine gas transit crisis, when millions in east Europe were left freezing. Hungarian Prime
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- airBaltic to start flights from Riga to Tartu
airBaltic will launch nonstop flights between Riga and the second largest city in Estonia, Tartu, on 3 July, offering connections to destinations in western Europe, Scandinavia, the CIS and the Mediterranean region. airBaltic will provide nonstop flights
- Orthodox leader sees progress on Estonian dispute
ISTANBUL, Jul 4 (Reuters) The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians said today progress had been made in talks with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church on their dispute over the Estonian Church. The two patriarchs put on a united front
- Finland ends Estonia's reign in wife-carrying
Finland put an end to Estonia's 11-year reign and took gold and bronze on Saturday at the annual Wife-Carrying World Championships held in Sonkajaervi, central Finland, organisers said. Taisto Miettinen raced through a 250-metre (273-yard) course with
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- Belarus marks anniversary of liberation from Nazi
MINSK: Belarus yesterday marked the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Minsk from Nazi forces with a Soviet-style military parade and a rousing speech by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. Some 160 tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery
- Belarus: urgent need for moratorium on executions
) 'The passing of another death sentence in Belarus shows the urgent need for a moratorium on executions' according to PACE President Strasbourg, 02.07.2009 - The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Llus Maria de
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