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Albania's Central Bank announces a sharp increase in residential housing prices in the latest piece of good news from the former Communist country.
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A bill to impose a fine on anyone promoting "homosexual propaganda" was approved earlier this month in the first reading of Parliament in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Some NGOs genuinely contribute to enhancing welfare, to the mitigation of hunger, the furtherance of human and civil rights, or the curbing of disease. Others are ideologically biased, religiously-committed and, often, at the service of special interests.
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The Czech Republic has issued licenses to export shackles, electric shock weapons and chemical sprays to 6 countries whose police and security forces are known offenders against human rights and have made use of precisely such items to torture detainees.
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The incidence of higher education and skills is greater among Muslim immigrants than in the general population. Europe attracts the best and the brightest away from their destitute, politically dysfunctional and backward homelands.
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The Albanians in Macedonia are economically better off than their kith and kin anywhere else in the Balkan. This, they claim, is no thanks to the state. Official unemployment amongst the young is intolerably high.
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Brussels -
Citizens of Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina who possess biometric passports will be able to travel without a visa in the Schengen area from mid-December. The decision came today after a meeting of the Council of the European Union (EU).
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Berlin -
The Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Bozidar Djelic, spoke today in front of the European Affairs Committee of the German parliament. Djelic said he supports Serbia in the EU.
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Health problem? What health problem? A report in The Lancet, the oldest medical journal on Earth, reports the US mortality rate is now 49th in the world for women and 45th for men, worse than some supposedly less advanced countries.
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Rumors are circulating that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is being considered for appointment as Supreme Court Justice to replace Justice John Paul Steven, who plans on retiring.
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