Eurasia

Pakistanis headed to polls in Karachi on Sunday, right after the killing of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a political leader who had accused rivals of vote stealing. Hussain was the senior vice president of the Tehreek-e-Insaf party.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met with Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras on Saturday in Baku. They said relations between Azerbaijan and Greece were developing successfully in

After winning adulation across Mali for a five-month military offensive that crushed Al Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg rebels.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria’s civil war but had no plans to resign. “To resign would be to flee,” he said on Saturday when asked if

The EU Delegation to Georgia issued a statement on the May 17 events in Tbilisi. “The heads of diplomatic missions of EU member states and the EU Delegation in Georgia

Brussels’ foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has congratulated Croatian President Ivo Josipovic on the country’s EU accession, which is set for July 1. “Your EU accession is good not only for you but will be extremely good for EU member countries,” she said

The governments of Bulgaria and Turkey will start this week negotiations for an agreement regarding the freight traffic between the two countries, said Bulgarian Minister of Transport Kristian Krastev Sunday. Krastev will meet Turkish counterpart Binali

Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić on Monday in Belgrade met with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, and the two held a news conference afterwards. The German foreign said that he could not prejudge the decision

The recent election of Pope Francis I (Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Argentine of Italian origin), who comes from the Jesuit order, to become the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the State of Vatican, as well as the circumstances that triggered the unusual decision of his predecessor Benedict XVI …

The current developments in Syria and the evolution of the Iran-inspired Shi’a movements in the region brought to the attention the Shi’a extremism’s expansion, seen by the analysts as a possible new “export of the Islamic Revolution”, or an effort to impose so-called “Mahdi governments” controlled by the Shiite religious …