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      Nobel Peace Prize 2015: the top five contenders
      Oct07

      Nobel Peace Prize 2015: the top five contenders

      Credits Berit Roald/AFP/Getty Images Angela Merkel and Pope Francis are favourites, but a priest from Eritrea could pip them both to the prize Profile Wednesday, October 7, 2015 – 3:32pm The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace …read more Source: The...

      The Netherlands is largest foreign investor in Bulgaria
      Oct07

      The Netherlands is largest foreign investor in Bulgaria

      At a briefing after meeting his Dutch counterpart Bert Koenders, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov expressed satisfaction with the fact that direct investments by the Netherlands in Bulgaria for the period 1996-2014 reach over 7 billion euros. This makes the Netherlands the largest foreign investor in this country. “We rely on the...

      Ukraine could destroy 3.7m polio vaccines despite risk of major outbreak
      Oct07

      Ukraine could destroy 3.7m polio vaccines despite risk of major outbreak

      Unvaccinated children at risk as healthcare lobbyists claim UN-donated vaccines are unsafe in spite of assurances from World Health OrganisationA healthcare lobby group is arguing for the destruction of 3.7 million polio vaccines donated to Ukraine by the UN, despite the risk (pdf) that a new outbreak of the disease could spread across the...

      A digital flashmob dares Putin
      Oct07

      A digital flashmob dares Putin

      LONDON — I spent last month in the 1990s. My Facebook was flooded with a flashmob of photos of Russian friends as their younger selves, raving at Moscow’s vivacious 1990s clubs, working at Moscow’s vivacious 1990s media or arguing at Moscow’s vivacious 1990s debates. There were many thousands of pics, scanned from...

      Missile fragments ‘found in MH17 bodies’
      Oct07

      Missile fragments ‘found in MH17 bodies’

      A former investigator says fragments of a Russian-made Buk anti-aircraft missile have been found amongst the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner downed over eastern Ukraine last year …read more Source: The...

      DPR and LPR Cancel Fake Elections
      Oct07

      DPR and LPR Cancel Fake Elections

      The “DPR” and “LPR” have agreed to cancel sham elections scheduled for Oct. 18 and Nov. 1, postponing them until Feb. 21, 2016. …read more Source:...

      Bulgarian MPs Reject Proposal to Revoke Sanctions on Russia
      Oct07

      Bulgarian MPs Reject Proposal to Revoke Sanctions on Russia

      Bulgarian lawmakers have narrowly turned down a proposal by the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) calling for sanctions against Russia to be reviewed.Sofia has enforced measures against the Russian Federation in line with the EU and the US policies toward Moscow after the Ukraine crisis began last year. The BSP, which was the senior...

      Parliament rejects suggestion to lift sanctions against Russia
      Oct07

      Parliament rejects suggestion to lift sanctions against Russia

      Bulgaria’s National Assembly rejected the suggestion of the Bulgarian Socialist Party – Left Bulgaria (BSP) for the step-by-step lifting of sanctions against Russia introduces due to the situation in Ukraine. The idea was to work out a decision of the National Assembly for an overall revision of the policy in view of the Russian Federation....

      EU and US hail implementation of Ukraine ‘truce’
      Oct07

      EU and US hail implementation of Ukraine ‘truce’

      The EU and US have welcomed the halt of rogue elections in Russia-occupied Ukraine, but concessions could harm pro-Western leaders in Kiev. …read more Source:...

      Report: BUK missile fragments found in bodies of MH17 victims
      Oct07

      Report: BUK missile fragments found in bodies of MH17 victims

      Shrapnel from a Buk missile was found in the bodies of victims from the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash, according to a Ukrainian investigator that was formerly part of the international team researching the cause of the disaster. The revelation comes just one week before the Dutch Safety Board releases their final report on the July 2014...