Friday , 16 May 2008

Since early May, Georgian officials have turned up to full blast the rhetorical heat of their arguments that the international community should unequivocally condemn recent Russian moves perceived in .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

BRUSSELS -- Lithuania, citing a wide array of transgressions by Russia, has said it will continue blocking -- at least for another few weeks -- a European Union deal to start strategic partnership tal .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

There were few surprises when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin presented his cabinet picks to President Dmitry Medvedev this week. The official ideology of "continuity" seemed intact as Putin lar .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

Peter Semneby, the EU special representative for the South Caucasus, this week traveled to Georgia for talks on the breakaway region of Abkhazia. The territory has been in the spotlight in recent week .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

The standoff between the Armenian authorities and opposition that resulted from the flawed February 19 presidential ballot and the violent police crackdown 11 days later on opposition supporters who r .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

Two separate recent developments have served to focus attention on the potential for conflict posed by the division between Russia and Azerbaijan of the historic homeland of the Lezgins. The first is .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

Hasan Sadulloev, a powerful Tajik businessman and the brother-in-law of President Emomali Rahmon, has not been seen in public for nearly two weeks. Sadulloev is considered to be one of the most p .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

Australians working in London's financial district are returning home in droves, attracted by job opportunities presented by their native country's strong economy, a UK study has found.Research by fin .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

After days of refusing foreign relief workers, China accepted offers from four countries to send in rescue teams, as the search for those trapped by the earthquake reaches a critical stage.Hours after .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

The World's central bankers are a close-knit club, given to fads and fashions. In the early 1980's, they fell under the spell of monetarism, a simplistic economic theory promoted by Milton Friedm .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

BEIRUT (AFP) -- An Arab League delegation was meeting with rival leaders in Beirut on Wednesday in a bid to mediate a settlement to crisis that driven Lebanon close to civil war. The Arab team .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan Rauf Engin Soysal has underlined the need for expediting work on Pakistan-Iran-Turkey road links to boost trade activities among these countries in the current globali .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

By Ellen Wulfhorst BATH, South Dakota (Reuters) - Sitting on board Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign plane are the remnants of a colourful balloon replica of the candidate, once nearly life-size b .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A member of an Afghan Taliban cell was convicted by a federal jury on Thursday on charges of narco-terrorism and narcotics distribution, the U.S. Justice Department said in a st .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

TEHRAN -– Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini announced on Wednesday that Iran's package of proposals was presented to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon by Iran's .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Torrential tropical downpours lashed Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Friday, deepening the misery of an estimated 2.5 million destitute survivors of Cyclone Nargis .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

By Simon Denyer BALLA, India (Reuters) - Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel. They punche .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

Traditional May festivities notwithstanding, last week was replete with political developments and staff changes in Kazakhstan. Akims, or governors, of two Kazakh regions were replaced, those implicat .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

By Patrick Markey BOGOTA (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday warned he was reviewing ties and commerce with Colombia after an Interpol report authenticated rebel documents that .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

There are no unresolved issues between Azerbaijan and Russia; the relations between the two countries are at the highest level, said Azerbaijan's Prime Minister Artur Rasi-zade while meeting speaker o .....