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Border guards prevented Ukrainian children from being taken abroad

Ukrainian border guards stopped an attempt to take a group of minors with improperly executed documents abroad, Interfax-Ukraine reports. At the Shehyni international road checkpoint in the Lviv…

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Money

In Italian banks, $15 billion has accumulated in “dormant” accounts.

Commercial banks in Italy have 15 billion euros in unclaimed funds, RIA Novosti reports. These are so-called “dormant” accounts, on which no transactions have been made for several years.

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Visas

Entry with Biometric Passports to US Postponed

US President George Bush signed an order to postpone by one year the validity of the existing passport regime for citizens of 27 countries covered by the visa-free entry agreement, according to the…

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Airbus

Lufthansa to raise ticket prices

Flying will become noticeably more expensive from this autumn. According to the newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Lufthansa, like many other German carriers, intends to cancel the commission for the…

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Underground fake document factory exposed in Kyiv

In Kyiv, officers of the criminal investigation department together with employees of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of the State Economy of the SBU exposed and detained an…

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Immigration

German capital to gain refugees

Over the past 14 years, the number of asylum seekers in Berlin has steadily declined. Now this trend may change dramatically, writes Russkaya Germaniya.

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Immigration

Ukraine among leaders of DV-2005 lottery

More than 5,300 people from Ukraine became winners of the American visa lottery DV-2005, which is held among citizens of countries with low levels of immigration to the United States, in 2005…

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British police will find it easier to arrest

The UK Home Office proposes to make the arrest and search procedure easier, the BBC reports. Among other things, it is proposed to allow police to arrest people for the most minor offences, such as…

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Estonian ID-cards to feature fingerprints

The Department of Citizenship and Migration begins testing new-type ID-cards containing a digital image of the holder's face and fingerprints, reports DELFI.

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Education

500 best universities in the world

The ranking of the 500 best universities in the world for 2003 was compiled by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai University (Shanghai Jiao Tong University`s Institute of Higher…

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Useful Neighborly Conversation Education

Useful Neighborly Conversation

Futurists predict that the 21st century will become an era of globalization and integration of culture, science, and economics. The concept of a “state border” will have mainly a political character…

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Turkey becomes extreme News

Turkey becomes extreme

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