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International News Brief: The battle between Birmingham City FC and the NEC to be nominated as a site for Britain's first super-casino will be resolved by the end of next month with Blues almost certain to win the race.

International News Brief: Casino owners are rushing through applications to open new venues ahead of tight new UK government restrictions from April 2006.

Harrah's Entertainment has announced the company plans to co-develop a Caesars casino resort in the master-planned El Reino community of Ciudad Real, 118 miles south of Madrid.

International News Brief: Sportalnet, a Maltese registered on-line betting company will be the new owners of the Casinò di Venezia.

Harrah's Entertainment announced Tuesday it will spend $700 million to jointly develop a hotel-casino in Slovenia with a Slovenian company.

The Small Town Poker Tour will push up the date for the European Small Town Poker Tour Championships.

International News Brief: Moscow’s mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called on the city government to get rid of 90 percent of the slot machines, extremely popular among Muscovites of all ages.

International News Brief: Harrah's Entertainment Inc. is set to announce two casino-resort projects in Spain and Slovenia with a total value of about $1.37 billion.

International News Brief: Moscow City Duma passed a bill on Gambling Business Facilities on where gambling halls can be located.

International News Brief: If internet gambling is like the wild west, then Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Poker is the latest cowboy to swagger into the saloon.

International News Brief: The U.K. Government has threatened to bring in statutory controls over advertising for online gambling following evidence that operators are breaking the law.

News Brief: The steadily rising number of casinos in Britain could leap by more than 50% to 211 sites, even before next-generation gaming licences have been granted under the Gambling Act, the Guardian has learned.

International News Brief: Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis offered to reopen a law granting the right to regulate gaming institutions only to the federal government, he told journalists.

International News Brief: Sunderland’s Gala Casino is ready to welcome revellers with a launch night tipped by bosses to be the biggest party the city has ever seen.

International News Brief: The market players in Russia's booming gaming industry welcomed the government's move to bring more clarity to sector's regulation by appointing federal tax authorities in charge of issuing licenses.

Companies in the moblile-gambling value chain are beginning to position themselves and mobile gambling will take off in earnest in Q2 2006.

International News Brief: Empire Online, a promoter of internet poker and casino sites, today pulled out of takeover talks with PartyGaming, the owner of the world's biggest online poker site.

International News Brief: A London assembly report has expressed reservations about the development of new 'super casinos' in the capital.

News Brief: Plans for a third casino in Yarmouth yesterday won unanimous backing at the borough council development control committee.

International News Brief: Birmingham City Council is relying on a four-year gagging order to block the release of information on plans for a super casino at Saltley.