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The Guardian - 17-Oct-2013

he tweeted, pointedly. On the terraces, the national team's supporters have taken to chanting: "Bart, tonight you are alone." There are crucial elections next spring in Belgium, in which the key issue is how well De Wever does with his message of gradual Flemish secession. If football can supply the feelgood factor, and Belgium does well in the World Cup, it will probably be too late: Brazil comes...

The Guardian - 03-Oct-2013

Lithuanian court frees Michael Campbell after ruling that prosecutors failed to prove he had ties with group An Irishman accused of buying arms for the Real IRA in an MI5 sting operation has had his conviction overturned by a Lithuanian court. The Baltic country's court of appeal found that prosecutors had failed to prove Michael Campbell had ties with the Real IRA. Campbell, from Dundalk in County...

The Guardian - 05-Jul-2013

s veto Britain has blocked the first crucial talks on intelligence and espionage between European officials and their American counterparts since the NSA surveillance scandal erupted. The talks, due to begin in Washington on Monday, will now be restricted to issues of data privacy and the NSA's Prism programme following a tense 24 hours of negotiations in Brussels between national EU ambassadors. Britain,...

The Guardian - 30-May-2013

s new ventures in Austria and Baltic states are welcomed by City, but shares dip over acquisitions concern Sports Direct, the clothing retailer led by Newcastle United's owner, Mike Ashley, is making its biggest foray abroad to date with the acquisition of controlling stakes in Austrian and Baltic sports chains. The company has agreed to buy a 51% share in Austria's Sports Eybl & Sports Experts, known...

The Guardian - 30-Apr-2013

s politicians consider the geopolitical and economic benefits of closer ties with the European project or Moscow In a flea market in Moldova's capital you can buy busts of Lenin, furry Russian army hats and gold icons. Next door the Russian language theatre is staging several productions of Chekhov. Billboards in Cyrillic proclaim the sponsor: the local Russian embassy. Just round the corner, however,...

The Guardian - 08-Jan-2013

t properly support. He had studied at the Institute of Medicine in Lithuania's second city of Kaunas, but the financial crisis was starting to bite and he couldn't get a decent job. There were rumours that a 30% across-the-board cut in public spending was coming and the future looked bleak. What to do? Like so many others, he took a deep breath and headed west. With visa restrictions scrapped after...

The Guardian - 02-Jan-2013

s a lottery. At the rear of the main hall, hidden away, there used to be the philatelic counter, complete with its glass-fronted cupboards and flat-top presentation case tables. The glass-top display counters held all stamps going back to the first days of independence, when the new national currency was not yet established. Although collector...

The Guardian - 30-Oct-2012

licence is revoked and two people are arrested after claims of debt bondage, poor conditions and violence There are strict rules covering the conditions for chickens and eggs marketed in the happy hen category by high street names – a Freedom Food chicken must be grabbed by both legs rather than just one when being caught, for example. But the conditions of the humans sent to catch them has had less...


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