Yearly Archives: 2013

Presidential Race Hots Up in Montenegro

After the incumbent, Filip Vujanovic, launched his campaign late last week in Bar, his main rival, Miodrag Lekic will hold his first election convention in Niksic on Monday.Billboards that went up in the capital, Podgorica, on Friday, showing a smiling Vujanovic dressed casually in a beige sweater and white shirt, …

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50 rebels, French soldier killed in some of ‘heaviest fighting’ in Mali

Heavy fighting in northern Mali has left at least 50 rebel fighters and a French soldier dead, officials said Sunday, as Chad promised to prove its soldiers had killed two top Islamist militants. French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called for “caution” on Chad’s reports

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British foreign minister pledges support in Mali visit

British Foreign Secretary William Hague vowed continued support for Mali’s fight against Islamist militants as he visited the west African country on Monday, his ministry said. The Foreign Office said Hague had met with Mali’s president and prime minister as well as French-backed African

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EU sees good progress between Belgrade and Pristina talks

The EU said Monday the latest round of talks it sponsors between Serbia and Kosovo, aimed at defusing tensions in one of Europe’s last trouble-spots, had made good progress and they would meet again later this month. EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton said a sixth series of talks she

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Athens, Ankara seek further warming of ties to boost trade

Turkish-Greek mutual trade, which reached $6.6 billion in ten years, promises even a larger potential, the prime ministers of the two neighbors believe. Turkey and Greece are set to foster their economic ties further, with both sides pleased at the state of their existing relationship, the prime

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Romania to Scale Back Clean-Energy Aid to Curb Power-Price Gains

Romania will scale back renewable- power subsidies to limit electricity-price increases for consumers, according to the minister-delegate for energy. The eastern European country plans to make changes to its incentive program in July or at the beginning of next year, Constantin Nita said today in an interview in Bucharest. It …

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