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Georgian Ambassador to Armenia takes his leave of RA NA chairman

Armenian National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan met Thursday with Georgian Ambassador Revaz Gachechiladze, who is completing his mission in the republic. The Armenian Speaker thanked Ambassador Gachechiladze for his contribution to the development of the Armenian-Georgian cooperation. The two discussed possibilities to strengthen interparliamentary ties and other issues of mutual …

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Rape inquiry sheds light on racism in Italy

ROME  – When police arrested two Romanians for the rape of an Italian teenager in Rome, Il Giornale, a paper owned by the family of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reported: “The Romanian beasts have been caught.” Three weeks later, prosecutors admitted the “beasts” could not be guilty — DNA tests …

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Romania not ruling out recession

Bucharest. Romania could slip into recession this year, when the economy could show a contraction of 1.0 percent to growth of 1.5 percent, Finance Minister Gheorghe Pogea said on Thursday. Romania is currently in talks with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union over a possible financial bailout.

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