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BULGARIA: As a successful harvesting season yielding several hundred tonnes of lavender oil wraps up in Bulgaria — the world’s top producer — the industry’s future looks more grey than purple. With a global production glut already weighing on prices, Bulgarian distillers now fear new EU regulations will further crimp business. While the European Union
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Russia reported a new drone attack on Moscow in the early hours of Saturday, which again forced the authorities to temporarily shut down all three major airports serving the capital. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that a drone was brought down by air defence systems over the Istra district of the Moscow region. The district
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German prosecutors said they are investigating the attempted murder of Berlin-based Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko after she was one of the three Russian exile journalists who experienced symptoms consistent with poisoning. Kostyuchenko, a foreign correspondent who exposed alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine, last October experienced extreme disorientation, abdominal pain and swollen extremities on a
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BRUSSELS: Dutch brewer Heineken said on Friday it had completed its exit from Russia by selling its operations there to Russia’s Arnest Group for a symbolic one euro.The world’s second-largest brewer said the deal had received all the required approvals and was likely to leave it with exceptional losses of 300 million euros ($324.8 million).
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ALEXANDROUPOLIS: Firefighters on Tuesday found the burnt bodies of 18 people believed to have been migrants who had crossed the Turkish border into an area of northeastern Greece where wildfires have raged for days. The discovery near the city of Alexandroupolis came as hundreds of firefighters battled dozens of wildfires across the country amid gale-force
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KYIV: Seven people were wounded early on Thursday in a Russian missile strike on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, authorities said. Six of the victims were hospitalised with moderate wounds, regional Governor Serhiy Lysak reported, and some transport infrastructure was damaged. About a dozen other buildings including a bank, a hotel, and an administrative
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BERLIN: Germany‘s cabinet on Wednesday passed a draft bill to ease the citizenship law, hoping a faster track to German nationality will attract skilled migrants to plug chronic labour shortages holding back Europe’s biggest economy. Some experts caution that progress may be slow, noting parts of Germany’s administrative machinery are already creaking under a big
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KYIV: Russia and Ukraine traded drone attacks early Wednesday, officials said, with Kyiv apparently targeting Moscow again and the Kremlin’s forces launching another bombardment of Ukrainian grain storage depots in what have recently become signature tactics in the almost 18-month war.Later Wednesday, the Ukrainian intelligence agency claimed it had destroyed a key Russian S-400 surface-to-air
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KYIV: Rusted Russian tanks, which the Kremlin had hoped would parade victorious through Kyiv days after it invaded Ukraine, have instead been lined up as war trophies ahead of Ukraine’s independence day. Hanging over the celebrations is the spectre of a grinding offensive taking longer than hoped to liberate occupied territory, spurring doubt in the
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MOSCOW: Moscow’s forces have repelled an attempt by Ukrainian “saboteurs” to break into the Russian border region of Bryansk, the region’s local governor said Tuesday. Russian regions bordering Ukraine have reported repeated shelling and attacks from Kyiv’s forces, including occasional cross-border incursions by pro-Ukraine armed militants. “Today Ukrainian saboteurs attempted to break through the state
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