Europa League: Liverpool Receive Favorable Draw

Today in the draw for the Europa League Round of 32, Liverpool was matched against Romanian club Unirea Urziceni. The Romanian Liga 1 winners from 2008-09, Urziceni gained eight points in the group stage of the Champions League, loosing to Sevilla and Stuttgart away from home, winning against Rangers at Ibrox and Sevilla at home, and drawing against Stuttgart and Rangers at home. Currently, Urziceni sits second in Liga 1 behind CFR Cluj.

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$18 Million Award for American Process, Inc in Alpena, Michigan

U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that Alpena-based American Process, Incorporated has been awarded nearly $18 million in Recovery Act funding to accelerate biofuel production. American Process, Inc. is one of the investors in the Alpena Prototype Biorefinery, a new $23.5 Million project yet to be built in a newly created Renewable Energy Renaissance Zone. The Renaissance Zone encompasses land acquired for the project from longtime board manufacturer Decorative Panels International.

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Russian ambassador: Romania can be Russia’s gateway to EU and EU gateway to Russia

Russia’s ambassador to Romania Alexandr Churilin said the Russian Cultural Centre of Russki Mir (Russian World) Foundation that opened on Friday in a festive ceremony at Bucharest’s Academy of Economic Studies (ASE) has a major role in the development of the Russian-Romanian relations. ‘It is an important event not only for the ASE or the ethnic Russians’ community in Romania, but also for the development of the relations between our two countries’, Churilin said. He hailed the opening of this first centre in Romania as being the beginning of a ‘new chapter in the Russian-Romanian relations’.

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