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21 december 2011

21 december 2011

20 december 2011

5 november 2010

Mosque bomb kills at least 50 in Pakistan At least 50 people are reported dead after the bombing of a mosque in Pakistan.The roof of the building collapsed after a suicide bomber blew himself up as hundreds of worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers

5 november 2010

Shelters moved as Java volcano erupts again The biggest eruption by Indonesia's Mount Merapi since the volcano began rumbling last week has forced the authorities to move emergency shelters further away. Life in the affected areas on Java island has been severely disrupted.

6 october 2010

French insist Roma are also Bucharest’s problem France's Immigration and European Affairs ministers Eric Besson and Pierre Lellouche are in Bucharest trying to refocus the Roma question away from their much-criticised repatriation programme.

8 september 2010

State Secretary Benčina at the opening of 25th Vilenica International Literary Festival Ljubljana, 2 September 2010 - Yesterday, State Secretary Dragoljuba Benčina attended the opening ceremony of the 25th Vilenica International Literary Festival. The State Secretary talked about the importance of reading and expressed her hope that, in this period of modern technologies, the reading culture would nevertheless persevere, since "books allow us to find ourselves and others, to see that there are different paths that can be taken and to absorb fresh knowledge." She wished the organisers every success in their continued efforts, and that the participants enjoyed the festival's various literary pleasures and challenging expert debates.

25 august 2010

Director-General Benedejčič meets head of Russian federal agency Ljubljana, 12 August 2010 - The Director-General for Global Issues and Multilateral Political Relations, Ambassador Andrej Benedejčič, today met the head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Cultural Cooperation of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Farit Mukhametshin, representing the President of the Russian Federation.