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Greek tourism revenues could drop by up to five percent in 2012 due to a fall in pre-bookings from Germany, industry officials said Wednesday, denting hopes the key sector will help pull the country out of the Eurozone financial crisis.

The United Nations humanitarian chief Valarie Amos arrived in Syria on Wednesday and is headed to the embattled city of Homs, which has been under assault by Syrian government forces for over a month.

The activists of Ukrainian group Femen, who protested naked at a polling station in Moscow where Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cast his vote Sunday, could be barred from entering Russia.

Andrei Yudin, a stylist who worked his magic on the guards believes these women to be truly beautiful even without makeup. “I just do it for the sake of touching up a beautiful face one more time,” the expert said in a statement on the Web site.

The surge in oil prices is unlikely to have a major impact on inflation in emerging Europe but the impact on growth could be more significant according to the report.

Russian precious metals miner Polymetal is eyeing acquisitions in Kazakhstan, Armenia, Ukraine, the Russian Far East and Urals, chief executive Vitaly Nesis told Moscow's RBC Daily in an interview published on Thursday.

With less than a week until presidential elections in Russia, the validity of the assassination attempt on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is being called into question.

Authorities in Ukraine arrested three men suspected in an assassination plot targeting Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, according to Russian state-owned Channel One television.

Geely Holdings Group Co. said Wednesday it will assemble cars for sale this year in Egypt and North Africa, a move that signals a shift to emerging markets as China's economy slows and auto makers face mounting competition in Western markets.

A group of young, semi-clad Ukrainian women gate crashed into the Indian embassy in Ukraine's capital Kiev last month, tore down the Indian flag and threw it on the ground.

Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko comfortably retained his WBC heavyweight title on Saturday, scoring a unanimous points decision over Briton Dereck Chisora in Munich's Olympic Hall to ensure his family maintained a global stranglehold on the division.

Europe’s bitterly cold weather has claimed hundreds of lives so far, and has left many cities and villages without water and electricity.

Eastern Europe has been hit the hardest by the cold snap, with shipping suspended and hundreds dead across the continent

Iran is seeking to close grain purchases using gold and oil as payment, and has paid in yen for a large volume of wheat in its first deal since western sanctions against Tehran started choking imports of food staples, European wheat exporters said.

The temperatures in Eastern Europe have plunged to as low as minus-30 Fahrenheit.

As Europe's cold snap hit the UK over the weekend, Heathrow Airport canceled hundreds of flights in a move many have called unnecessary and excessive.

More than 300 people have died in Europe as the result of a severe and long-lasting cold spell, and tens of thousands of people across the continent have been left without power or been cut off from supplies.

Bitterly cold weather that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe swept westward over the continent on Saturday, as Russian natural-gas exporter Gazprom acknowledged it had been unable to meet increased demand as it battles its own deep freeze and had thus cut its supply for a few days.

There are up to 3,500 sex workers from the former Soviet Union plying their trade in New Delhi alone.

There are officially some 12,000 homeless people living on the streets of the capital city of Kiev (out of a total population of about 2.6-million).

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