Eurasia

SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria will withdraw its 155 troops from Iraq at the end of the year, the defense ministry said Thursday.

KHAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 30 when he blew himself up at a meeting of ethnic Pashtun tribal leaders in northwest Pakistan’s Bajaur area on the Afghan border Thursday, government officials said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Causing death through “cyber terrorism” will be punishable by death in Pakistan, according to a decree issued by President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani Taliban militants have released unharmed a group of schoolboys they abducted on suspicion of spying for the security forces, police said on Thursday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev could resign from his post in 2009 to pave the way for Vladimir Putin to return to the Kremlin, Vedomosti newspaper reported on Thursday, citing an unidentified source close to the Kremlin.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Pakistan foresees the possibility of a breakthrough with India on the Kashmir dispute in the next few months.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ednan Karabayev on Tuesday criticized double-standard approach about Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

05 November 2008 Brussels – The European Commission says Croatia is on track to wrap up EU accession talks next year and could join by 2011, however other countries have a lot more work to do.

05 November 2008 Brussels – Montenegro’s Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic has given the NATO Secretary General the country’s application to join the alliance’s Membership Action Plan.

05 November 2008 Podgorica – It’s up to Serbia to decide on what kind of relations it wants with Montenegro since Belgrade no longer matters to Podgorica, Montenegro’s Prime Minister says.