Eurasia News

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s highest court could decide as soon as Wednesday whether to ban the ruling AK Party for Islamist activities, Radikal and Sabah newspapers said.

SUKHUMI, Georgia (Reuters) – Russia has started to withdraw soldiers it sent to repair railways in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, a spokesman for the troops said on Wednesday.

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – Militants shot and killed an Afghan woman accused of being a U.S. spy in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, and dumped her body in a sewer, a witness and intelligence officials said on Wednesday.

CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia will offer military advisers to Pakistan to train security forces to fight Taliban and al Qaeda militants taking sanctuary there from neighboring Afghanistan, the government said on Wednesday.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s military said its fighter jets attacked Kurdish separatist targets in northern Iraq on Tuesday and killed a number of guerrillas.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union on Tuesday kept up pressure on Serbia to do more to resolve war crimes by again delaying a decision on unfreezing trade benefits despite the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Indian and Pakistani troops traded more fire in the disputed Kashmir region on Tuesday, following a 16-hour clash, military officials said, making it the worst violation of a 2003 ceasefire.

BELGRADE (Reuters) – Hardline nationalists gathered to show their support for war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday, while Serbian authorities and his legal team played a cat-and-mouse game over his extradition.

NICOSIA (Reuters) – Peace talks on ethnically- divided Cyprus this September offer possibly the best chance in years for a deal that has been eluding the island for decades, a senior United Nations envoy said on Tuesday.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s war crimes court sentenced seven Bosnian Serbs to prison terms ranging from 38 to 42 years on Tuesday for taking part in the mass killing of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995.