Moldovan mayor wins "battle of Christmas trees"
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The mayor of Moldova's capital Chisinau, who backs closer ties with neighboring Romania, has scored a symbolic victory over the ex-Soviet state's communist president in a duel focusing on rival Christmas trees.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--The Coast's embattled urban trees are about to receive two types of help on Friday.
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BOSANSKI SAMAC, Bosnia  - A Bosnian Serb who was  convicted of war crimes and who preached reconciliation between  Serbs, Croats and Muslims after leaving jail is running for  mayor of his war-scarred town in this weekend's election.
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Romania's centrist opposition leader  Traian Basescu scored an upset victory in a presidential race  against leftist Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, almost complete  official results showed on Monday.
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Latvian authorities have given residents something to cheer about when they invited them to cut their own Christmas trees for free -- only to be chased away by forest rangers.
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By Shirley Downing downing@yourappealcom  Lakeland city forester Eric Bridges has received the Government Employee of the Year award from the Tennessee Urban Forestry Council.  The presentation was made this month at the 15th annual state forestry conference in Nashville.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Kenyan tree planter and government minister Wangari Maathai has won the Nobel Peace Prize, Agence France-Presse said.
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ROMANIA turned its back on the countryâs communist past yesterday with the unexpected election of Traian Basescu, the reformist Mayor of Bucharest, as its next President.
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Bosnia's wartime foreign minister Haris Silajdzic won the race for the Muslim member of the three-man presidency against incumbent Sulejman Tihic, preliminary results and party projections showed on Monday.
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Romania's Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) said that Traian Basescu, the centrist opposition leader, has won the presidential run-off held on Sunday.
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the west of flouting democratic norms, won overwhelming approval in a referendum to run for a third term in office, the top election official said Monday.
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Bucharest mayor and conservative opposition candidate Traian Basescu faced the task of forming a government from fragmented parliamentary support after winning Romania's presidential election.
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Opposition candidate Traian Basescu won Romania's hotly-contested presidential election dominated by the country's EU membership bid, but the centre-right mayor of Bucharest faced the arduous task of trying to form a government from a fragmented parliamentary base.
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Romania&#39;s centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu has scored an upset victory in a presidential race against leftist Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, partial official results show.
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Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu, the head of Romania&#39;s two-party main opposition alliance, beat Prime Minister Adrian Nastase in a run-off election to become the Balkan nation&#39;s third president and lead it into the European Union.
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THE Romanian opposition leader, Traian Basescu, was yesterday declared winner of the countryâs presidential election. The victory appears to mark the end of the last of Eastern Europeâs Communist &quot;dynasties
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Christmas trees with glistening decorations are seen everywhere in downtown Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.