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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov pledged yesterday to speed up work on Russia’s South Stream gas pipeline project, in a move to secure cheaper gas deliveries.
After talks here with Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov and Gazprom’s deputy chief executive Alexander Medvedev, Borisov said the two countries had drafted “a road map” to accelerate work on the project, which is being built by the Russian gas giant and Italy’s ENI.
Three people have been killed in a fire that broke out Wednesday at an Athens bank during rioting over the Greek government's plans for austerity measures.
"We have found three dead people in the building that is on fire," the fire brigade said in a statement.
Interview with Toby Iles, analyst for Central & Eastern Europe at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
After gaining a first class undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, Toby Iles undertook further study at the University of Cambridge and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.
Turkey’s gold mining sector is set to blossom, despite heavy taxes on the industry and a lack of investment in unlocking the country’s golden potential.
Gold Miners Association Chairman √úmit Akdur, speaking to the Anatolia news agency,
Trucks are loaded with sugar cane, which will be used to produce biofuels, in Brazil, but a new report by ActionAid says biofuels are taking away vital land for food production in developing countries, and are sending millions hungry. Photograph: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters
Small country, great expectationsIf you’re an American thinking of buying a new mattress, you might check out the website for Dormeo and see a short promotional video with promises of Italian luxury set against the Florence skyline. What you would not know is that while those mattresses are manufactured in Italy, their production was outsourced by a Slovenian company, Studio Moderna, that sells them around the world.
Stream Oil & Gas Ltd. (TSXV:SKO), a junior Vancouver-based energy company that operates in the Balkan area of southern Europe, says an independent review has valued its Albanian energy reserves at more than $145.3 million.
The company also said Wednesday that its gross proved plus probable reserves on its oil and gas properties in Albania are more than 17.4 million barrels of oil equivalent output.
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