Eurasia

06 November 2008 Sarajevo – Top Bosnian Croat and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) leaders have failed to agree on the restructuring of the government in the Croat-Bosniak-dominated Federation entity.

06 November 2008 Belgrade – Serbia’s pro-European Democrats enjoy the strongest support among the country’s electorate suggests the latest opinion poll by the Belgrade-based Strategic marketing agency.

06 November 2008 Belgrade – Serbia’s government wants to make a key cooperation deal with the International Monetary Fund, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said.

06 November 2008 Sofia – A week after milk producers protested in Sofia over unsolved issues in their sector, Bulgaria’s Agriculture Minister has dismissed Zheko Baichev, the general director of the National Veterinary Service.

06 November 2008 Zagreb – Croatia’s Prime Minister Ivo Sanader welcomed the EU’s decision to name the target date for Croatia’s completion of accession talks as its “international affirmation.”

06 November 2008 Pristina – Muhamet Hamiti, Kosovo’s first ambassador to Great Britain has been invited to Buckingham Palace in London for a formal welcoming by Queen Elizabeth II.

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.