Eastern Europe

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar have said several times in the past week that the system of buying crops from farmers based on the Minimum Support Price (MSP) will continue. They have clarified the recently p...

Anti-coronavirus measures will have significantly more severe consequences than the disease itself, especially in developing countries, Germany's Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Gerd Muller warned....

BUCHAREST (Romania), September 24 (SeeNews) - Romania sold on Thursday 346.6 million lei ($83 million/71 million euro) worth of Treasury bonds ma...

SOFIA (Bulgaria), September 24 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) said it awarded a 3.2 million levs ($1.9 million/1.6 million eur...

Opposition Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata sternly attacked the government......

SOFIA (Bulgaria), September 24 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian Stock Exchange blue-chip SOFIX index edged up 0.02% to 425.21 points on Thursday, mostly...

Britain's Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a new jobs support program to help firms employ people on shorter hours amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the current furlough scheme ending this month....

Rallies against police brutality and racism have erupted across Kentucky and beyond after the state's grand jury ruled two of the three policemen were justified in fire their weapons to 'protect themselves' during a mistaken 'no knock'...

SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), September 24 (SeeNews) - Bosnia's Federation government said on Thursday it will provide 100 million marka ($59.5 mi...

The Riigikogu nominated judge Urmas Volens to the Supreme Court bench Wednesday....

The Baltic States have agreed to introduce sanctions against another 100 individuals linked to violence in Belarus, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkvis said in an interview to the Latvian Radio September 23....

LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), September 24 (SeeNews) - The Slovenian parliament approved a revision of this year's budget envisaging a 4.2 billion euro ($...

"The pupils have the right to defend public health and to mobilise," stated main opposition......

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has rejected the new EU migration policy proposal, calling parts of it "nonsense." Brussels wants countries to admit relocated asylum seekers and also to pay for sending them home....

Spanish giants Barcelona have taken a major step towards avoiding the risk that almost saw star striker Lionel Messi leave them this summer, adding a huge exit fee to brilliant teenage newcomer Ansu Fati's new deal at the club....

In July 2019 Joaquin Guzman Loera - better known as El Chapo - was jailed for 30 years and ordered to forfeit US$12 billion in cash and assets by a court in New York. Who has filled the vacuum since El Chapo was extradited from Mexico in 2017?...

US New Home Sales Surge In August To Highest Since 2006 Tyler Durden Thu, 09/24/2020 - 10:08 Despite a huge upside surprise in existing home sales (to highest SAAR since 2006), analysts expected a small drop MoM in new home sales in August (which makes so...

AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has become the latest big-name sports star to contract COVID-19, but, given the powerful performances of the Swedish star, fans on social media seem more concerned for the future of the virus....

LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), September 24 (SeeNews) - The Ljubljana Stock Exchange's (LJSE) blue-chip SBITOP index recorded a third consecutive winn...

There were no complaints as to the equipment following the commissioning trials, according to the developer...

The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine states that after self-isolation due to contact with a COVID-19 patient, pupils are not required to take a test and submit documents to the school about their health status....

Kovalska Industrial and Construction Group intends to invest $ 70 million in the construction of five business centers in the Unit.City innovation park, CEO of the group Serhiy Pylypenko has said at a press briefing....

Karelia's first business, working in transport and logistics, has applied for the Arctic residency...

Krasta City SIA has announced the results of a public design competition for the territorial development vision for construction on the right bank of the Daugava (in the quarter between Salu Bridge, Krasta Street and Daugava (the territory of the historic...

Turkey is particularly prone to seismic activity as the nation lies on the collision zone of three tectonic plates. This January, 41 people died because of a powerful 6.8-magnitude quake....

Facebook Launches Long-Promised 'Oversight Board' Before US Election Tyler Durden Thu, 09/24/2020 - 09:51 Facebook is planning to move ahead with the launch of its "Supreme Court-style" oversight committee - which Sen. Josh Hawley has lamb...

Ukraine asked for the postponement of the Ukrainian-Belarusian III Forum of Regions, which was to be held in Grodno on October 8-9 with the participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for a year, Belarusian Ambassador to Ukraine Igor Sokol ha...

At the United Efforts-2020 strategic command and staff exercise, Ukraine has demonstrated how it is implementing new practices based on NATO standards and principles. — Ukrinform....

BELGRADE (Serbia), September 24 (SeeNews) - Serbia plans to provide foreign citizens working remotely for companies based abroad with an opportunity t...

The former British prime minister and Tony Blair Institute for Global Change chairman was a guest at last week's signing of the Abraham Accords between Tel Aviv, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and has touted his own work on "deepening relat...

September 29, the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, will be celebrated by a video conference where the Estonian Food Bank (Toidupank), the Ministry of Social Affairs and many international experts will address the issue of food ...

SOFIA (Bulgaria), September 24 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian Stock Exchange said that it has decided to admit to trading a nine-year 30 million levs...

S&P Enters Correction, Down 10% From Highs, Goes Red YTD Tyler Durden Thu, 09/24/2020 - 09:35 But, but, but... fiscal stimulus... Powell Put... v-shaped recovery... vaccine... Nasdaq is leading the tumble but the S&P 500 has just hit a 10% drop from its h...

During the local elections earlier this month, Marina Udgodskaya was elected head of the Povalikhino Rural Settlement, a tiny locality found in Russia's Kostroma Region. Previously, she worked as a cleaner for the very same government administration t...

As relations between the world's two major economies, the US and China, continue to deteriorate, RT's Boom Bust talks to Professor Richard Wolff about what's really going on....

SOFIA (Bulgaria), September 24 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's antitrust regulator said on Thursday that colors and glazes producer Pigments Spain is...

The Defense Ministry added that about 20 combat and support ships as well as naval aviation and air defense planes of the Black Sea Fleet cordoned off the area to ensure the safety of shipping...

The British Embassy in Sweden, located in the capital's Diplomatstaden neighbourhood, was reportedly surrounded by police patrols on Thursday after a suspicious parcel was found on the site....

Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarachi on Thursday announced that two hosting facilities......

President Volodymyr Zelensky assures that Ukraine does not cave in to blackmail but finds a balance for the Trilateral Contract Group meetings. — Ukrinform....

Chinese-owned social media app TikTok has admitted to deleting hundreds of videos at the request of the Russian government. A senior company executive told UK Parliament that it had no choice, as it must comply with local laws....

The move comes as part of a $1-million court ruling in favor of "Putin's chef" Yevgeny Prigozhin, Navalny's spokeswoman said....

BUCHAREST (Romania), September 24 (SeeNews) - Romanian hydro power producer Hidroelectrica said on Thursday it has invested 1.98 million lei...

Prime Minister Jri Ratas said on Thursday that ministers will soon discuss the Estonia ferry disaster and the request for a new investigation. Earlier this week Ratas discussed the sanctity of the grave agreement concerning the wreckage of the ferry with ...

As one of the world's major space powers, Russia has done its part helping humanity search for extraterrestrial life, recently beginning the construction of a powerful telescope capable of searching for signals coming from distant alien civilisations....

The truck's cargo appears to have included signs saying "Abolish the Police" and "Abolition Now" that can be seen in the video as they are retrieved by protesters....

SOFIA (Bulgaria), September 24 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian fruit and vegetable processing company Balkan Agricultural is investing 29.2 million levs ($...

Goldman Gives Up On New Stimulus In 2020, Cuts Q4 GDP Growth Forecast From 6% to 3% Tyler Durden Thu, 09/24/2020 - 09:15 "A U.S. fiscal deal was baked into markets and now what you are seeing is that the probability of a deal going through has simply ...

The Central Election Commission and public observers registered a decreased number of complaints and violations compared to last year's elections, Putin said...