Posts Tagged Eastern Europe

Miss Universe contest heads to Moscow

LAS VEGAS (AP) — This year’s Miss Universe pageant will be held in Russia’s capital Moscow.

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Tax, trade and Syria on menu as UK’s Cameron rallies world leaders to G-8 summit in N.Ireland

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G8 faces uncertain recoveries, turbulent markets

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks at the G8 UK Innovation Conference at the Siemens Crystal Building in London, Friday June 14, 2013. As part of UK's G8 Presidency, the G8 Innovation Conference brings together 300 leading international entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists, designers and policy makers. (AP Photo/Facundo Arrizabalaga, Pool)

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — Europe is mired in debt and recession. Financial markets have hit violent ups and downs on fears that U.S. stimulus efforts may soon be scaled back. Japan is finally looking up after years of stagnation — but it remains an open question if the recovery will stick.

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Putin says Super Bowl ring was gift

In this June 25, 2005, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a diamond-encrusted 2005 Super Bowl ring belonging to New England Patriots NFL football team owner Robert Kraft during a meeting of American business executives at the 18th century Konstantin Palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia. When Putin arrived in London on Sunday, June 16, 2013, his spokesman was asked about a New York Post story quoting Kraft saying Putin pocketed his Super Bowl ring in 2005. Putin said he’s happy to buy New England Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft another ring, but it’s absurd to suggest he stole the Super Bowl one. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

LONDON (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is denying insinuations that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl ring that’s on display in the Kremlin, but says he’s ready to buy him another ring as a gift.

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Shock lingers after Nazi unit leader found in US

In this May 22, 1990 photo, Michael Karkoc, photographed in Lauderdale, Minn. prior to  a visit to Minnesota from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in early June of 1990.  Karkoc a top commander whose Nazi SS-led unit is blamed for burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.  (AP Photo/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Chris Polydoroff)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who know 94-year-old Michael Karkoc. World War II survivors in both the U.S. and Europe harshly condemned the news and prosecutors in Poland have said they’ll investigate.

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