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- Queensland music to play loud at MUSEXPO Europe 2009
(Media-Newswire.com) - Award-winning singer/songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke will help represent Queensland and showcase her work at a major European music industry event from June 29 to July 1 2009. Trade Minister Stephen Robertson said that this was the
- EU may lift ban on four Indonesian airlines
Jakarta: Indonesia's transport minister says the European Commission will lift a ban on four Indonesian airlines. Jusman Syafii Djamal says Garuda, Mandala Airlines, Airfast Indonesia and Prime Air will be allowed to fly in EU airspace within 20 days.
- $10-billion plan would ship gas from Africa to Europe
Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to create a $10-billion pipeline that would ship gas across the Saharan desert to Europe, Nigeria's state oil company said Friday. The plan comes as Europe seeks new sources of gas imports as it
- Climate change to alter where Europeans holiday
A warming climate could reverse the flow of tourists and encourage more Southern Europeans to head north, instead of the other way around. That?s the subject of a new European research project at the University of Gothenburg. The tourist industry is
- Czech Republic reports 14th death in floods
Source: Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) Prague_(dpa) _ The Czech Republic Friday reported the 14th victim of flash floods that have tormented Central Europe for over a week. A 53-year-old man drowned near the village of Bory in central Czech Republic as he
- Sahara pipeline to transport gas from West Africa to Europe
Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to build a pipeline across the Sahara that would link Europe to big west African gas reserves. The Trans-Sahara Pipeline project, which would cost at least $10 billion for the pipeline and another $3bn
- Sahara pipeline plan to feed west African gas to Europe
Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to build a pipeline across the Sahara that would link Europe to big west African gas reserves. The Trans-Sahara Pipeline project, which would cost at least US$10 billion (Dh37.7bn) for the pipeline and
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- The Honduras Itch
Unlike Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela, Honduras had been getting very little coverage in the Russian media before last weekend. Having said all of the above, I just hope that our readers in Honduras take as much offence from this joke as Poland takes from
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- 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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- Lenin's nose put out of joint in Kiev
By Marta Shokalo BBC Ukrainian Some Ukrainians clearly believe it is time to get rid of Lenin's statue in Kiev The recent damage caused to Lenin's monument in Kiev has provoked a debate about the future of the capital's only public monument to the leader
- Lafarge could build cement factory in Ukraine in 2010
Interfax citing Mr Nikolai Puzenko commercial director for Lafarge's Ukrainian representative office as saying that French group Lafarge could commence construction of its second cement plant in Ukraine in 2010. He added that investment in the
- Ukrainian steelmakers issue H1 2009 output data
It is reported that the major Ukrainian steelmakers have released their preliminary production results for the first six months of 2009. Accordingly, during the given period Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol reduced its finished steel product
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- Sweden assumed rotating EU presidency
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Sweden on Wednesday assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union, promising to combat climate change as well as the rising joblessness in the wake of the global economic crisis. ?The financial crisis and climate
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- Developing Competition Over Turkmenistan And Belarus
The Obama administration should reach out to two world leaders with unpronounceable names and unpalatable regimes--and invite them to Washington. Leaving President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus and President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan
- Arabs fear Kurdish grab after US pullout from Kirkuk
The Arabs and Turkmen of Kirkuk fear the Kurds will seize control of the northern oil hub after the US pullout from Iraqi urban areas unless their power in the security services is curbed. 'The Arabs of Kirkuk fear that the province's security services
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- US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 642
(AP)
AP - As of Friday, July 3, 2009, at least 642 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT.
- US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 642
at least 642 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m.
- BRIEFING - ASIA REAL ESTATE - JULY 2, 2009
prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities. US$500 MLN TO CREATE THE NAVOI FIEZ IN UZBEKISTAN TASHKENT - Over US$500 million of investments
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- Vietnams women expect easy game at Asian football cup
Vietnam has high hopes for Group Cs sole ticket to enter the final round of the 2010 Asian Womens Football Championship, as its two rivals-Kyrgyzstan and Hong Kong-are considered weaker teams. Vietnam will face Kyrgyzstan in the first match for Group C
- US Holds Onto Air Base in Former Soviet Republic
Home » Politics & Society » European Affairs » Russia » Manas Base in Kyrgyzstan Vital to NATO?s Afghan War © Mariyan Karasik U.S. to keep crucial base in South Asian Steppe after Kyrgyz parliament reversed February order to evict Americans
- Upsurge in Militant Presence in Kyrgyzstan
Porous border makes country's south vulnerable to incursions, experts say. By Ainagul Abdrakhmanova in Bishkek and Abdraim Ysmanov in Jalalabad (RCA No. 582, 03-Jul-09) Kyrgyzstan?s porous southern border, compounded by the inability of its
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