EU antitrust raid on Czech power firm (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
European Union antitrust regulators said Tuesday they made surprise raids Monday on the Czech Republic’s state-owned electricity supplier CEZ and other companies in search of evidence that CEZ shut out rivals and hiked power prices.
Russia to Keep Belarus Gas Price Discount, Medvedev Says (Bloomberg)
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) — Russia will sell natural gas to Belarus next year at a discount of about 30 percent to 40 percent compared with the prices its neighbors pay, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said, according to state television.
Romanian championship results and standings (Reuters via Yahoo! Sports)
Romanian championship results and standings on Monday. FC Astra 2 Steaua Bucharest 1 FC Timisoara 2 Dinamo Bucharest 0 Vaslui 2 CFR Cluj 0 Universitatea Craiova 3 Ceahlaul Piatra Neamt 2
Czech regret over sterilisation (BBC News)
The Czech government expresses regret over the illegal sterilisations of Roma women, saying measures were being introduced to stop the practice being repeated.
VW’s Slovak plant to create 8,500 jobs (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
German car giant Volkswagen said Tuesday the production of a new line of small family cars in its Slovak plant would create 1,500 direct and 7,000 indirect jobs as of 2011.
AdnaTest BreastCancer Select & Detect kit now available in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (News-Medical-Net)
OncoVista Innovative Therapies, Inc., reported that the AdnaTest BreastCancer Select & Detect kit, manufactured by AdnaGen AG (Langenhagen, Germany), is now available for research as well as for pay-out-of-pocket patients in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Ukrainian killed in pirate attack off W.Africa coast (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Pirates attacked an oil tanker off the coast of west Africa, killing a Ukrainian seaman, the commander of Benin’s naval forces told AFP Tuesday.
Slovenia, Croatia to draw line (Fairplay)
CROATIA and Slovenia have decided to let an arbitrator draw the line in a 28-year maritime border squabble. …
Romania: President Leads in Voting (New York Times)
Traian Basescu, the incumbent, led by a slim margin in the first round of Romania s presidential election, but the close results pointed to tough talks ahead to form a new government.
Women s handball: Romania beats Croatia in Mobelringen Cup (Nine O’Clock)
The Romanian women s national handball team registered its first win in the last game of the Mobelringen Cup (Norway), a training tournament taking place ahead of the World Cup in December.
