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Illegal Dumping Threatens Drina River Ecosystem in the Balkans
2021-03-15 07:00:00| Waste Age
Illegal dumping is threatening the wildlife and residents along the Drina river where Bosnia & Herzegovnia, Serbia and Montenegro meet. The Yugoslav Wars ravaged the region in the 90s. The area is still recovering and building the infrastructure
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West Balkans regional roaming agreement enters into force
2019-07-02 11:19:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Mobile phone users in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia pay less while roaming within the region since 01 July. Calls are up to eight times cheaper, and costs for data drop on average from EUR 3/MB to EUR 0.20/MB.
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KKR sells Balkans cable operator United to BC Partners
2018-09-27 15:15:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) KKR has agreed to sell the Balkans cable operator United Group to fellow private equity fund BC Partners. KKR will retain a "substantial minority stake" after the deal, it said. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, while sources familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal that the deal values United at around EUR 2.6 billion including debt.
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EU, FAO to Tackle FMD in the Balkans
2015-02-11 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EUROPE - The European Union and FAO have stepped up efforts to assist countries to prepare for any possible outbreaks of devastating foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in cattle, sheep, goats and other animals, including in the Balkans.
Satellite Images Reveal Scope of Massive Balkans Flooding
2014-05-27 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The full, devastating scale of the downpour-driven flooding that tore across the Balkans in mid-May is evident in newly released images from a NASA satellite. This image, taken by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellie, shows a close-up of the town of Vidovice, Bosnia and Herzegovina, surrounded by and inundated with water from the Sava River. Torrential rains fell across parts of Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina beginning on May 13, with some spots recording...
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