Category: Business

Balkan journalists battle deluge of malicious lawsuits

Belgrade (AFP) – Serbian journalist Radmilo Markovic has gone over every full stop and comma of an article about the powerful mayor of Belgrade that has landed him in court ‘No free country without a free press’: A Reporters Without Border…
Family keeps up Beirut dessert tradition

Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – At a shop nestled in a busy, crowded Beirut district, Hasan El-Makary is weighing out containers of warm, fragrant mufataka, a traditional sweet in the Lebanese capital that is rarely found in stores. Traditional Beiruti dessert mufataka…
Tractors converge on Rome as farmers protest across Europe

Rome (AFP) – A convoy of tractors was poised Saturday to descend on Rome as farmers’ protests caused disruptions across Europe, though they wound down in France following government concessions. Farmers have expressed anger at what they say are excessively restrictive…