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Japan, India to sign trade, investment deal
The leaders of India and Japan were set to sign a sweeping agreement Monday on boosting trade while the visiting Indian prime minister pushed for a nuclear energy deal -- a touchy issue for Tokyo because of India's past atomic test blasts.
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Russian troops cannot pull out of Moldova - ambassador
Russian troops cannot be pulled out of Moldova. The statement came from the Russian ambassador in Chisinau Valery Kuzmin in response to a demand by Moldova’s Acting President Mihai Ghimpu.
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Kazakhstan Seeks to Strengthen Ties With EU
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazerbayev is set to this week visit Brussels and Paris, aiming to strengthen economic ties between the resource-rich central Asian nation and the European Union.
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Estonia to Cut Gazprom Dependence
Estonia plans to separate Eesti Gaas' gas sales and transmission divisions in two years to reduce dependence on Gazprom, the utility's biggest owner and its sole gas supplier.
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Bulgaria Secures German Investor for Belene Nuclear Plant
Bulgarian will for sure build its second nuclear power plant at Belene, Parliament Chair Tsetska Tsacheva has declared.
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Strategic partnership between Lithuania and Poland is turning into strategic freeze
Ties between Lithuania and Poland, which have been considered a strategic partnership for a decade and a half, are now described as “the worst in Europe” by Polish diplomatic sources, Lithuanian daily newspaper Lietuvos Rytas said on its website Friday
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Georgia at a crossroads: after the post-war
In Tbilisi, memories of the bitter conflict with Russia in August 2008 are fresh, but everywhere too are signs that forces of change are pushing Georgia in new directions. Jonathan Wheatley takes the measure of a fluid political moment.
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Central Asia’s Energy Future Put at Risk by Melting Glaciers
This year, according to the whitewater-rafting guide, the water was too high, it was too dangerous. The group of beginners he was guiding down one of Kyrgyzstan’s most accessible rivers couldn’t handle the rapids ahead. Downstream, reservoirs were overflowing, causing authorities to lament the loss of precious water in summertime when it isn’t needed to make electricity.
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