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Minority poet Maja Haderlap wins Christine Lavant Prize
Vienna – Slovenian minority poet and writer Maja Haderlap from Carinthia, Austria, has won the Christine Lavant Prize for her work, including a novel about the battle of Slovenians living in Carinthia against National Socialism in Austria, the newspaper Delo reported on Tuesday.
Top 10 Cities to Live in 2021
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Istanbul Airport claims no. 2 spot in world's best international airports
Istanbul Airport placed number two on a ranking of the world's best international airports, a survey by U.S. Travel and Leisure magazine found.
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At less than three years old, Istanbul Airport made it to the upper ranks of the globe's top 10 airports in the World's Best Awards 2021 survey, said a statement by the Istanbul Airport Administration (IGA) on Sept. 9.
Horeca salaries, up 20pct from 2019 in Romania (recruitment platform)
Pay in Romania's Horeca industry have increased by up to 20% since 2019, according to more than half of the representatives of such companies participating in a recent survey, with some instances of average salaries exceeding 4,000 lei, according to data centralised by an online recruitment platform released on Tuesday.
Investors to be offered ‘shares’ in Picasso painting
A Picasso painting is to be sold in tokenized form, allowing investors to buy "shares" in the work, Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum announced July 15.
Sygnum joined forces with Artemundi, a fund specializing in art investments, to offer the shares in Picasso's 1964 work "Fillette au Beret."
Stories of women from Egypt, Russia at Kundura Cinema
Kundurama, the online viewing platform of Kundura Cinema, this week will screen two documentary films about the lives of women who are caught between the impositions of conservatism and the desire for change and freedom in Egypt and Russia.
Flixbus’s Ljubljana-Belgrade line back after more than a year
Ljubljana – The bus operator Flixbus is relaunching its bus route from Slovenia to Serbia after more than a year of inactivity. Starting on May 20, its coaches will be taking passengers on the Ljubljana-Belgrade route four times a week, while adhering to the epidemiologic measures.
FIFA to punish Ronaldo
The captain of the Portuguese squad, in added time, angry that the referee did not award a winning goal to Portugal, angrily threw the captain's armband and left the pitch, then returned briefly, allowing the referee to end the match.
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Botanist enriches Turkey's flora
Asuman Baytop, a leading Turkish expert on botany and botanical history who provided a significant contribution to the country's flora with her discoveries, was commemorated on Feb. 19 on the 6th anniversary of her demise.
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Olympic Airways collection awaits museum home
The breakfast served in first class on the Olympic Airways flight from Zurich to Rome on October 26, 1967 was special, as was one of the passengers. Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras was on his way to his last meeting with Pope Paul VI, continuing the historical dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox churches that had begun in 1964.
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