Eurasia

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf’s counsel Thursday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the decision of a special court not to allow the high treason case against his client to be held in a military court.

The United States will send 6 additional fighter jets to Lithuania in order to reassure its Eastern European allies over increased fears from Russia’s incursion in Ukraine.

The Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia will hold a trilateral meeting in Bulgaria’s Danube city of Ruse on Friday.

Tunisia’s president on Thursday lifted the state of emergency that has been in place since the outbreak of a popular revolution three years ago, and a top military chief said soldiers stationed in some of the

A move by the Crimean authorities to rejoin Russia and go ahead with a referendum on the issue next week was dismissed as illegitimate by the United States on Thursday as the crisis in Ukraine continued.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Wednesday warned the international community against reviving the Cold War era amid the crisis unfolding in Ukraine, saying that it is “dangerous for everyone and parties should avoid it.”

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will meet Ukrainian Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk at NATO Headquarters Thursday afternoon.

The European Union is ready to give EUR 11 B of financial support to Ukraine over the next couple of years. Speaking at a news conference held at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, EC President Jose Manuel Barroso asserted that

European Union leaders holding a crisis meeting on Ukraine on Thursday could impose sanctions on Russia if there has been no “de-escalation” by then, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.

In a show of U.S. support for Ukraine’s new leadership, Secretary of State John Kerry walked the streets of Kiev on Tuesday and promised the crowds that American aid is on the way.