Eurasia

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek high school students attacked police stations around Athens with stones and firebombs on Thursday, injuring one bystander, in a sixth day of rioting sparked by the shooting of a teenager, police said. “An elderly bystander was taken to hospital after he was hit by a rock,” …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India wants Pakistan to hand over 40 people it believes are behind militant attacks and other crimes, India’s foreign minister said on Thursday, but ruled out military action against its neighbor as a solution. “We have given them lists of 40 persons not one, not 20 …

New tactics are emerging in protests over the shooting of a teenager in Greece. In what students say is organised action, a group of about 100 young people surrounded the office of the Mayor of Athens. Elsewhere, demonstrators gathered outside the main prison in the capital and a college building.

Demonstrations against the response of the Greek police have spread well outside the country’s border. In Italy, police blocked off roads around the Greek embassy as protestors tried to gather. The Greek police have been violent and cowardly said demonstrators from the Italian communists and some anarchist parties.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Gazprom Neft, Russia’s fifth largest crude oil producer company and the oil arm of gas export monopoly Gazprom, has voiced interest in developing oil fields in southern Iran. Displaying an interest to win the Iranians’ consent on its wholesale participation in developing the fields, Boris Zilbermints, Deputy General …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Minsk, Belarus, on Thursday. During the two-day visit, Mottaki and senior Belarusian officials are to review avenues to bolster bilateral ties and discuss regional and international developments. The Iranian minister is slated to attend meetings with Belarusian …

TEHRAN (FNA)- The UN Security Council remains gridlocked over Iran’s nuclear work, as member states have failed to reach a convergent stance on the issue. The Security Council, on Wednesday, heard a report by Belgium’s ambassador to the UN, who chairs the committee overseeing the implementation of three rounds of …

A delegation led by Serbia’s Human and Minority Rights Minister, Svetozar Ciplic, has been presenting Belgrade’s rights’ records to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Serbia’s national report reflects the joint work of several ministries and non-governmental organisations and highlighted the benchmarks of human and minority right issues in …

Local police deployed strong special police forces in Bosnia’s southern town of Capljina, to prevent clashes between supporters of rival wings of the local Roman Catholic Church. The incident took place on Sunday, as the regional Roman Catholic Bishop Ratko Peric came to Capljina to consecrate the construction of a …

Bosnian Serb leaders have shrugged off the latest criticism from the international community’s top envoy to Bosnia and Herzegovina as “incorrect and generic.” “People in the Office of the High Representative, OHR, think that their opinions are imperative and that they should remain in Bosnia and Herzegovina but we will …