Bulgaria's PM Scolds Messy Custom Officials
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Business: 10 October 2004, Sunday. Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg expressed his discontent with the condition of Bulgarian Kalotina checkpoint on the Serbian border.
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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader has scolded national television presenters for wearing too much makeup and told them to look natural.   "Female presenters wear too much whitening powder...
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The Zimbabwean government lashed out Thursday at &quot;gratuitous&quot; criticism by a leading newspaper body which accused President Robert Mugabe&#39;s regime of being one of the worst violators of press freedom.
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Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (Centre) has criticised recent comments by Russian Presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembski on Finnish attitudes toward Russia.
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A civil service union chief says tensions between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair harm working of government.
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Complaints from international travelers  to the United States about hostile treatment by immigration  officials have prompted them to clean up their act, the  official in charge of border controls said Monday.
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Bulgaria's president on Friday voiced doubts that the country's minority government is able to pursue consistent financial policies after Parliament twice altered its proposals of tax laws.
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The leader of the main opposition party in the Bahamas scolded the government Monday for not acting sooner to remove the country's immigration minister over his seemingly preferential treatment to Anna Nicole Smith.
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"Les enfants de la patrie . . ."  BRUSSELS: The man who will probably be elected Belgium's new prime minister cut a poor figure on the country's national day on Saturday when he could not say why it was being marked and fumbled over the ... via The Mercury
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A couple of MPs said Thursday that mad cow control on imported veal and beef in Bulgaria was unreliable and asked a prosecutor to investigate the country's top veterinary official for allegedly importing flawed ...
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Sending a letter or finding a friend's house in Albania is not that simple as much of the country doesn't have street names thanks to petty bickering between intractable politicians.
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Tony Blair and Michael Howard hurl book insults at each other as they clashed over David Blunkett's criticisms of ministers.
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BBC boss Mark Thompson has ordered staff  to root out inaccuracies after the public broadcaster was hit  by two embarrassing blunders and had to apologize to Queen  Elizabeth.
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LONDON: The British minister under investigation for allegedly fast-tracking a visa for a former lover's nanny was at the centre of a new political storm yesterday over slurs on his government colleagues.
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A special panel investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files said Tuesday that the country's current president and 19 lawmakers who once collaborated with the secret service.
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Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov on Monday vetoed a newly passed law on political parties saying it unfairly treated parliamentary and extra-parliamentary groups by different standards.
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An anti-corruption watchdog calls on the Czech prime minister to explain how he paid for a luxury Prague flat.