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Maryland National Guard celebrates foreign partnerships
For Capt. Martin Noorsalu, deploying to Afghanistan with the Maryland National Guard last year was an unusual opportunity. Noorsalu is one of only a dozen helicopter pilots in the Estonian Air Force. The sole air defense service of the former Soviet...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Annapolis, Armed Conflicts, Martin O'Malley, Baltic Region
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EBRD considers lifelines for small business in emerging Europe
Reuters* EBRD governors consider direct lending to small business * Libya seeking advice from EBRD By Carolyn Cohn ISTANBUL, May 11 (Reuters) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering ways to help small businesses in...Tags: Small Businesses, Muammar Gaddafi, European Central Bank, Libya, Economy, Business and Finance
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European development bank cuts growth forecast for emerging economies
ReutersISTANBUL (Reuters) - Europe's development bank slashed its 2013 growth forecasts for emerging Europe and North Africa on Friday by almost a full percentage point, saying a sharp slowdown in Russia would drag down the regional economy. The European Bank...Tags: International Monetary Fund, Slovenia, Weather, Tunisia, Turkmenistan
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EU-bound Croatia craves investors but drags feet on reforms
Reuters* Red tape suffocates investment * Trails peers in attracting foreign investment * Croatia four years in recession * Some local firms move production to non-EU neighbours By Igor Ilic and Sasa Kavic DUBROVNIK, Croatia, May 10 (Reuters) - The barren...Tags: Politics, Montenegro, Zagreb (Croatia), Elections, Hungary
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Serb tycoon indicted over privatisation deal
Reuters* Miskovic one of Serbia's richest, most influential figures * Faces up to 10 years in prison * Tycoon denies any wrongdoing BELGRADE, May 9 (Reuters) - Serbian retail tycoon Miroslav Miskovic was indicted on Thursday over a disputed privatisation...Tags: Serbia, Politics, Company Privatization, Slobodan Milosevic, Organized Crime
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Historic agreement offers hope for a war-weary world
In a world wracked with seemingly unsolvable conflicts from the Middle East to Central Asia and the Korean Peninsula, there is a ray of hope from another historically war-ravaged region — the Balkans. After 10 intense rounds of negotiations and...
Tags: Serbia, Politics, Human Interest, Government, European Union
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FACTBOX-Main parties in Bulgaria's election
ReutersSOFIA, May 8 (Reuters) - Bulgarians vote on Sunday in a parliamentary election. Following are the main political parties and their policies: GERB: The centre-right party, which resigned from government in February following mass protests against low...Tags: Politics, Money and Monetary Policy, Elections, European Union, Bulgaria
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IMF says Serbia mission a "health check", not loan talks
ReutersBELGRADE (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will not discuss a fresh loan deal on a mission to Serbia starting this week, it said on Tuesday, describing the visit as a "health check" of the Balkan country's economy. Serbia's government says it...Tags: International Monetary Fund, Politics, Serbia, Belgrade (Serbia), Government
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Soccer-Fans and police hurt in mass fight in Bosnia
ReutersSARAJEVO, April 25 (Reuters) - Sixteen supporters and seven police officers were injured, two of them seriously, in a mass fight on Wednesday when fans of rival soccer clubs clashed in a central Bosnian village while heading to first division matches....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
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Global Voices: An artist's take on dictatorship's legacy
Anila Rubiku grew up in a country that no longer exists, at least not the isolated, repressed and paranoid state that was Albania before Eastern Europe’s anti-Communist revolutions. The Balkan country that broke away from its iron-fisted mentors...
Tags: Politics, Albania, Fine Artists, Political Systems, Gun Control
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13 killed in Serbia shooting spree
A 60-year-old man gunned down 13 people, including six women and a child, as he went on a shooting spree from house to house in a quiet village near Belgrade on Tuesday before trying to kill himself and his wife, police and hospital officials said....Tags: Serbia, Politics, Belgrade (Serbia), Murder, Shootings
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Move over Dracula, tourists flock to see Bulgarian 'vampire'
World NowThe discovery last week of a 700-year-old skeleton with metal stakes where his heart had been has stirred a bout of vampire-mania in Europe and attracted flocks of tourists to the churchyard grave site in Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Sozopol. So keen is...
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