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The Moldovan Socialists' desperate campaign against the country's Constitutional Court has failed to stall early elections and has left them looking more tarnished than ever.

There are 4,000 licensed sellers who have been waiting as long as 15 years for a permanent stall space in the country's street markets, data compiled by the General Secretariat for Commerce and Consumer Protection show, pointing to one of several areas where corruption finds a profitable foothold.

The Rouvikonas anarchist group on Thursday expressed its determination to maintain a stall it opened the previous day at the Athens School of Philosophy despite reactions from the head of the faculty, Eleni Karamolengou.

Europe cannot sweep the problem of refugees from the Middle East and northern Africa under the carpet, it needs to find a joint solution, says Tomislav Nikolic.

In an interview for the Rossiya (Russia) 1 television channel late on Wednesday, Nikolic underscored that Europe did not create the problem on its own "but cannot stall the search for a solution either."

Warning alarms in AirAsia flight QZ8501 were "screaming" as the pilots desperately tried to stabilise the plane just before it plunged into the Java Sea last month, a crash investigator said Jan. 21.
        

Huge crowds gathered at open-air markets around the capital on Wednesday as producers selling agricultural goods handed out free fresh fruit and vegetables in protest to government legislation regarding how the markets are managed. Earlier in the week producers had embarked on an open-ended strike.

Producers who sell their agricultural goods at open-air markets around the country are to begin an open-ended strike as of Monday in protest at proposed changes to legislation governing how the markets are managed.