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Ford has announced an investment of $1.3 billion to retool its Canadian assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario to make electric vehicles and batteries for the North American market.    

Video footage of Romanian policemen shouting at a group of rounded-up Roma men lying on the ground while an officer repeatedly beats one of them has shocked human rights activists in the country. The newspaper Libertatea published the amateur 40-second video on Thursday night.

It features some 40 towns and cities in seven countries - Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and Cyprus - all of which were once part-ruled by the Venetian Republic.

Vale says that although the Venetian state hasn't existed since 1797, it has left behind it a powerful heritage in terms of culture, architecture, gastronomy and language, which he seeks to explore.

Mariya Gabriel, Bulgarian Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, will visit Haskovo on November 11 to participate in the Digital Knowledge and Skills Day under the motto "Programming and Creating Together". This was announced by the Press and Media Department of the EC Delegation to Bulgaria.

The event will start at 11:00 am in the Zarya Community Center.

For the Swedish orientalist and Greek philologist Jakob Jonas Bjornstahl - the first known Scandinavian traveler to visit Greece, in 1779 - Thessaly and the Vale of Tempe in the winter felt just like home. And in 1878, Finnish architect, writer and artist Jac Ahrenberg was surprised to find that Athens reminded him of cities back in his own country in many ways.

Rescuers worked overnight into Saturday searching for around 300 people missing after a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil killed at least nine, but the local governor said "odds are minimal" that they would be found alive, reports AFP. 

BURTON Albion have signed goalkeeper Dimitar Evtimov on a one-month deal.

The 25-year-old Bulgarian has been with Championship club Nottingham Forest since 2011 and has had loan spells at Mansfield Town and Port Vale amongst others.

He was released by Forest at the end of August and became a free agent.

A dam holding back waste water from an iron ore mine in Brazil that is owned by Vale and BHP Billiton burst on Nov. 5, devastating a nearby town with mudslides and leaving officials in the remote region scrambling to assess casualties.