With Croatia set to hold general elections this year, polls show that the two main political parties — the Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ) and the Social Liberal Party (SDP) — are in a virtual dead heat. This time around, both parties are counting on professional consultants to help them maximise …

When UN special envoy for Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari unveiled his status proposal on Friday (February 2nd), Belgrade found itself in a difficult position. In the wake of the January 21st general elections, Serbia effectively has neither a parliament nor government. Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, saying he no longer has the …

US envoy Frank Wisner voiced confidence Tuesday (February 6th) that Serbia’s leaders will take part in the upcoming consultations on a UN proposal to resolve the Kosovo status issue.

The widow of a British soldier killed by US “friendly fire” said she felt sick when she watched a cockpit video showing the moment of her husband’s death.

Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Secretary Prabhakar Kelkar feels that insted of lamenting about paucity Indian peasants should take a lesson from a country like Israel and gird up their loins for confronting international competition while making independent efforts to gather resources.

At least seventeen people have been killed and dozens more wounded in violence in Iraq, as residents of Baghdad awaited a much-vaunted security operation to quell sectarian bloodshed in the capital.

BAGHDAD, Iraq –Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki complained Tuesday the long-awaited Baghdad security operation was off to a slow start and warned that insurgents are taking advantage of the delay to kill as many people as possible.

A court martial trial opened for the first US military officer to openly refuse to go to war in Iraq as protests in his support were organized in several cities across the country.

Iran has set up centrifuges in two underground nuclear plants and will test them soon as it moves towards the industrial-level enrichment of uranium in defiance of UN demands, diplomats told АFР.

Four times last year President Bush stood with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and four times he offered glowing appraisals.