North Korea attracted a huge investment in its cement plant from a big Egyptian construction company, one of the largest private investments in the reclusive country amid reconciliatory moves between Pyongyang and Washington and progress towards the North’s denuclearization.

Surse din cadrul serviciilor de securitate bulgare au declarat pentru mass-media din această ţară că unităţi speciale ale poliţiei de la Sofia au percheziţionat sediile mai multor moschei şi fundaţii religioase musulmane din regiunea oraşului Razgrad.

Îndeplinirea obiectivelor procesului de transformare a forţelor armate conform statutului României de stat membru NATO şi UE, angajamentele asumate de către România faţă de aceste organisme internaţionale sunt incluse pe ordinea de zi a şedinţei CSAT de astăzi, convocate de către Traian Băsescu.

Şapte români au murit în accidentul produs joi dimineaţă în coliziunea dintre un autobuz şi un trailer în sud-estul Ungariei, şoferul trailerului fiind şi el tot român, a declarat pentru NewsIn Consulul general al României la Szeged, Constantin Aron.

Bulgaria said on Wednesday (July 18th) it is sending an official request to Tripoli for the transfer of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV.

Speaking to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on Tuesday (July 17th), Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said expedited EU accession is his country’s top priority. Jeremic said he believed entry into the bloc is the ultimate goal for all countries in the region, spurring co-operation.

Dick Marty, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteur who recently wrote a report on alleged illegal CIA detentions in Romania and Poland, came under fire by members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Tuesday (July 17th).

The province’s negotiating team, the Unity Group, decided on Tuesday (July 17th) that parliament will hold a debate on July 30th concerning the delay in resolving Kosovo’s status.

The United States and its EU allies formally introduced a draft resolution on Kosovo late Tuesday (July 17th) despite Russia’s opposition to the text. It calls for 120 days of new talks between Belgrade and Pristina, after which the UN Security Council would review the situation.

Four people were killed in Mogadishu Wednesday in continuing violence a day before the resumption of the troubled peace talks.