Saturday 22 November 2008
Gazprom threatens to cut off Ukraine gas
Russian national gas company Gazprom has told Ukraine it will cut off gas supplies to its neighbour at the beginning of January if a new contract is not agreed.
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- AGRICULTURE
- EU ministers reach compromise on farm reform
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- After a marathon negotiating session, EU farm ministers have come to a compromise on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), notably with a reduction in subsidies for farmers. The changes will take effect from 2009 to 2013.
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- ITALY
- Nigerian prostitution ring broken up in Italy
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- Italian police arrested eleven suspects accused of trafficking 100 women from Nigeria to work as prostitutes in Italy. The fate of these women is far from being an isolated case with Nigerian criminality on the rise in Italy.
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- BANKING
- Commission approves state guarantees for Dexia
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- The European Commission has given the green light to state guarantees worth 150 billion euros offered by France, Belgium and Luxembourg in October to the cash-strapped Franco-Belgian bank Dexia.
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- RUSSIA
- Politkovskaya trial to continue behind closed doors
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- Four men charged in connection with the killing of outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya entered not guilty pleas at their trial, which will be held behind closed doors, to the frustration of the victim's family and lawyers.
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- ICELAND
- IMF approves $2.1 billion loan
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- The International Monetary Fund has approved a two-year loan of 2.1 billion dollars for Iceland to help the country rebound from a dire financial crisis. Iceland's banking system collapsed in just one week back in October.
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- CROATIA - JUSTICE
- Serbia to counter-sue Croatia for war crimes
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- After the International Court of Justice ruled it would hear Croatia's genocide claim against Serbia, Serbian FM Vuk Jeremic (pictured) stated it would counter-sue for crimes committed by Croatia during the 1991-95 war in Croatia.
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- AUTOMOBILE
- Opel studying move to 30-hour week
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- German carmaker Opel, a subsidiary of General Motors which has called on the German government for guarantees, has announced it will cut its production and is considering adopting a 30-hour working week to avoid layoffs.
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- UNITED KINGDOM
- Northern Ireland parties agree on police, justice
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- The Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin have agreed on the establishment of a devolved police and justice system in the province. The issue had frozen the work of the power-sharing executive since June.
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- UNITED KINGDOM
- Sharp fall in UK inflation in October
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- Driven by lower oil and food prices, UK inflation fell sharply in October to 4.5%, according to official figures. This comes a day after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned of a risk of deflation in 2009, echoing the Bank of England.
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- EU
- Irish vote may reverse Lisbon treaty veto
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- Encouraging new polls have prompted pro-EU advocates within the Irish government to consider holding a second referendum on the stalled Lisbon reform treaty. The country is seeking guarantees from Brussels that it will retain its EU commissioner.
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- SPAIN
- Judge Garzon cancels his probe on Franco-era deaths
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- Eminent Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon has complied with a public prosecutors' demand that an investigation regarding the disappearances of thousands of people during General Francisco Franco's dictatorship be handled by regional courts.
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- ETA
- Txeroki arrest 'decapitates' Basque separatists
- Monday 17 November 2008
- Basque separatist group ETA have sufffered a major blow after the arrest of their alleged military chief Garikoitz Aspiazu "Txeroki's" arrest in the French Pyrenees on Monday, according to specialists.
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