New Swine Flu Cases in Kosovo

Three Kosovo Serbs appeared to be have contracted swine flu. Their health situation is described as stable.

Serbian Police Arrest 5 War Crimes Suspects

Serbian police arrested five persons Thursday night suspected of having committed war crimes against civilians in eastern Bosnia.

Macedonia, Kosovo Open Embassies

Macedonia and Kosovo will soon appoint ambassadors to their respective capitals, the foreign ministers of both countries said in a press conference in Skopje.    

IMF Delays Romania Funds Due to Political Instability

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has delayed disbursing an aid tranche to Romania originally scheduled for next month and will resume talks on a standby loan agreement only when the country has a government.

FIFA Talks on Kosovo’s Football Future

Kosovo’s Football Association has met FIFA and UEFA to negotiate the country’s footballing future on the international stage.

Where a Chardonnay is not simply a Chardonnay

About an hour and a half from Budapest is one of Hungary’s most famous wine-growing regions: Eger. Wine has been...

Four Hungarian mountaineers still missing in Himalayas, search team at 5,000m

Beijing, November 5 (MTI) - The Hungarian Mountaineers' Federation has asked its Chinese partner to deploy helicopters in the search for four...

World Science Forum - Response to global challenges should rest on scientific facts, says IUCN dir

Budapest, November 5 (MTI) - Steps to be taken as a response to global changes and challenges must be based on...

It is unusual, for Budapest

The man declared the world's greatest singer by Elvis Presley in the sixties - and a Welsh poof by...

Hungarians lose their interest in high-finance lifestyle

Both the number of accepted loan applications and the amount of transferred credits decreased considerably yr-on-yr in the first half, the “statistical...

Estonia pushes for defense plan

TALLINN - Estonian Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo has pressed NATO allies to come up with a plan if the region is attacked. Aaviksoo told the Associated Press that he was concerned by Russia's aggressive actions with regard to Georgia. The defense minister reportedly urged NATO to...

Latvia passes budget in first reading

RIGA - Saeima (Latvian parliament) has passed next year's budget in the first reading. A total of 64 deputies voted for the bill, while 32 voted against and one abstained. "Even though this budget should be considered a crisis budget, it will allow us to continue the program for stabilizat...

Kubilius to resign if budget fails

VILNIUS - Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius has said that he will resign if the 2010 budget fails to pass in next month's vote. Kubilius told the radio that failure to adopt the 2010 budget would trigger "a collapse" of public finances, Reuters reported. The budget will be a dif...

Latvenergo Latvia's most valuable company

RIGA - A recent survey has found that Latvenergo is now the country's most valuable company. The survey - which was carried out by carried out by Kapitals, a prominent Latvian business magazine, the NASDAQ OMX Riga stock exchange, and investment banking company IBS Prudentia - found that Latv...

Estonia considers eurovision pull-out

TALLINN - Anneli Toevere-Kaur, media relations manager at Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR), has said that the country's pulling out of the Eurovision song contest is "the most possible scenario", esctoday.com has reported. "Giving up Eurovision participation in 2010 is being discussed beca...

PGE rises 13 percent at start of trading on the WSE

Polish migrants send billions home, says report

Sikorski earns Moscow's wrath over words never said

Ministry wants tax from TVN's games of chance

Former President to lead breakaway faction in SLD?