President Lee Myung-bak praised what he called a "first step towards opening an era of space science in earnest".

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This opening was supposed to be the first step towards scrapping all regulations holding up cross-border trucking.

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John Coffren took this step with Facebook because he'd never spent time on the site before opening Bliss Bakery, a bricks-and-mortar shop in Virginia Beach, Va.

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In a separate report the Commission also recommended opening talks with Kosovo on reaching a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU - a key step towards full EU accession negotiations.

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