KABUL – With the Taliban geared for their biggest push of the year to take control of southern Afghanistan, district by district, coupled with suicide attacks in the cities, Western intelligence believes that the killing of Mullah Dadullah was a big mistake.

Partidul Democrat cere PNL şi PSD să-şi asume proiectul de lege privind introducerea votului uninominal şi să urgenteze dezbaterea lui în Parlament. Boc a cerut ca acesta să fie adoptat până la sfârşitul acestei sesiuni parlamentare.

Preşedintele PD Emil Boc a anunţat că democraţii nu vor trimite nicio delegaţie la consultările de astăzi cu premierul Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, care convocase partidele parlamentare pentru stabilirea datei pentru alegerile PE.

La nici nouă luni de la numirea în funcţie, prin detaşare de la Tribunalul Braşov, unde era judecător, consilierul de stat Silviu Barbu a demisionat de la Cotroceni, după ce interceptarea uneia dintre convorbirile sale telefonice a ajuns la un post central de televiziune.

A crucial war crimes trial against two former high-ranking Croat officers, accused of atrocities against ethnic Serbs during a 1993 military operation, opened in Zagreb on Monday (June 18th) amid tight security.

Among the impoverished Iraqi refugees queuing for food aid at a Catholic charity in Damascus stands 65-year-old Hirmiz Hanna, puzzled and upset at his fate.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The plight of some 200 Gazans, stranded in no-man’s-land on the Israeli border in a desperate bid to flee last week’s Islamist takeover of the territory, is dividing Israeli opinion.

In a world where more people are on the move than ever, governments jittery about cross-border criminals, terrorists and illegal migrants must not shirk their duty to protect refugees, a UN official said on Tuesday.

International pressure forced Sudan to accept a plan to deploy a combined UN and AU peacekeeping force of at least 20,000 troops in its troubled Darfur region, opposition parties said on Tuesday.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party has won almost all the 16 seats in the runoff elections for Egypt’s upper house of parliament, according to official results and media reports on Tuesday.