Eurasia Press & News
MERDARE, Kosovo (Reuters) – Kosovo threatened on Tuesday to ban products coming from Serbia if Belgrade does not reverse its policy of blocking goods that carry a customs stamp from its former province. Since early December, Serbia has refused to allow in products with labels reading “Customs of Kosovo” because …
Read More »Students march, gunman shoots police bus in Greece
ATHENS (Reuters) – Hundreds of anarchists marched through Athens on Tuesday hours after a gunman opened fire at a riot police bus, in a third week of anti-government protests since police shot dead a teenager. Police said the unidentified gunman shot at the bus carrying 19 officers when it stopped …
Read More »India says arrests Pakistan soldier, Islamabad denies
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Indian police said on Tuesday they had arrested three militants, one of them a Pakistani soldier, for allegedly planning a suicide attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Pakistan’s army, however, denied the arrested man was a serving soldier. The arrests came as India deployed thousands of troops in …
Read More »Russian strategic missile test fails: report
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A test launch of Russia’s new submarine-based missile Bulava has failed, Interfax news agency said on Tuesday, quoting a source in the military-industrial complex. Russia plans next year to equip some of its nuclear-powered submarines with Bulava, capable of carrying up to 10 warheads to the distances …
Read More »Iran, Armenia to Start Construction of Pipeline in Months
TEHRAN (FNA)- Construction on a pipeline to deliver petrol and diesel fuel from Iran to Armenia will begin next year, Armenia’s Energy Minister Armen Movsisian said today “Armenia will receive petrol and diesel fuel from the oil refinery located in the Iranian city of Tabriz through the pipeline, construction of …
Read More »Russia Denies Delivering S-300 Missiles to Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia denied that it was delivering sophisticated S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, following reports it was about to supply the weapons to the Islamic republic. “The information on the delivery of S-300 air-defense systems to Iran, which has appeared in certain media outlets, does not correspond to reality,” …
Read More »First Greece-Macedonia Court Hearing in Jan
The first official meeting of Macedonian and Greek representatives at the World Court over Skopje’s suit against Athens is to be held on January 19, Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry says. The International Court of Justice has already notified both countries’ foreign ministries. The meeting will focus on procedural issues regarding the …
Read More »EULEX ‘Must Probe Ethnic Crimes in Kosovo’
The EU’s law-and-order mission in Kosovo, EULEX should urgently probe cases of ethnically-motivated crimes and improve the justice system, argues Human Rights Watch. The letter by the New York-based organisation was sent to EULEX chief, Yves de Kermabon. “Progress on prosecutions linked to the March 2004 riots and prosecutions for …
Read More »Kosovo President: UN Plan Not Obligatory
The UN’s Six-Point Plan for Kosovo is not obligatory since it does not outline what will happen if the plan is not implemented, Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu claims. Instead, Sejdiu advocates the superiority of the four-point plan proposed by the Kosovo government. “Pristina’s stance (the Four-point plan) is referred to …
Read More »UN: Serbian Trains ‘Should Not Enter Kosovo’
Northern MitrovicaBelgrade had no permission from the UN to allow Serbian trains to enter Kosovo, says a UN mission spokesman after a train reportedly terminated in the town of Zvecan. “Concerning this issue, Belgrade did not discuss it with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, I’m sorry to say. We …
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