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    I liked this Poem - Oh the free
    spirit of the Gypsy, I think
    God can use that.

    THE GYPSIES

    This morning I fled with the
    gypsies
    into the dawn
    and disappeared
    in the rise of sun.

    Do not look for me
    in the same old places,
    for I am gone.

    Rise and watch the sea grass
    rippling in the wind.
    Think naught of me,
    for I am no longer the she
    I used to be.

    I have fled with the gypsies,
    the raggle taggle gypsies.
    I tossed the me I used to be
    away.
    I put silver hoops in my ears,
    bells around my ankles,
    bangles on my wrists,
    and disappeared in a silken
    mist
    of rising dawn.

    I've left you a shiny mirror.
    When you get lonely
    gaze into it, and you will see
    your dearest love gazing back
    at thee.

    There is no room in your
    guilded mirror
    for me,
    and I have gone
    into the horizon
    in the gypsy wagon
    never to return.

    Last night I looked into your
    eyes
    and could not find my own
    beauty
    shining there,
    and this morning I combed my
    hair,
    ran barefoot across the lawn,
    and fled with the raggle
    taggle gypsies
    across the North Sea
    into the rising dawn.

    Posted by Indira
EU, UN to co-ordinate
Pristina-Belgrade talks

19/07/2010
PRISTINA, Kosovo -- EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has agreed with UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to co-ordinate future talks between Kosovo and Serbia,
the daily Express reported on Sunday (July 18th). Ban had proposed that UNMIK chief
Lamberto Zannier, supported by UN Representative in Belgrade Andrew Gilmour, co-
ordinate the process with the EU. <Read More>
    Kosovo: Four Killed Near Macedonian Border June 21, 2010
    Posted by Yilan
    Kosovo police say that that four people died and one was injured when their car
    was ambushed as it entered the town of Viti in southern Kosovo, near the
    Macedonian border.Police said that around 2am on Monday five persons were
    travelling in a car with Macedonian plates when they were shot at by unidentified
    assailants.
    <Read More>

    Members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) affiliated PAME labor
    organisation stage a brief sit-in at the Israeli airline EL AL offices at Athens
    International Airport on 14 July, in protest of the Israeli government's policy on the
    Palestinian issue.

    Romanian
    government
    plans to raise
    income taxes,
    scrap 16 percent
    flat tax
    BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Romania's finance minister says the cash-strapped
    government plans to scrap the 16 percent flat tax and introduce higher income
    taxes starting next year, according to a financial newspaper. <Read More>

    ICJ rules for
    Kosovo
    independence
    declaration
    - Laura Rozen: July 22, 2010
    ICJ rules for Kosovo independence declaration

    The United Nation’s International Court of Justice has deemed Kosovo’s 2008
    declaration of independence from Serbia to be legal.
    <Read More>

    AMSTERDAM — Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic recorded details of secret
    deals with Bosnian Croats to divide the country and expel the Muslim population in
    the early 1990s, according to excerpts of his diaries released Friday. <Read More>