Eurasia

ERBIL (AFP) — The prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan raised fresh calls on Thursday for a referendum to decide the future of the country’s crucial oil hub of Kirkuk, warning that Kurdish patience had limits.

ANALIZE LUMEA „Gaullismul era penetrat“ Franta celei de a IV-a Republici (1946 – 1958) a constituit un teren de exceptie în ce priveste infiltrarile KGB-ului în sanul comunitatii de informatii franceze si al clasei politice. ÃŽn 1954, 30% din rapoartele Directiei Principale I a KGB se bazau pe date furnizate …

Creata dupa dezmembrarea URSS, Federatia Rusa nu este – geopolitic vorbind – nici continuatoarea Uniunii Sovietice, nici a Imperiului Tarist de pana in 1917

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STRASBOURG, France — The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a report on Albania Thursday (January 25th).

PARIS, France — Turkey and Greece were among the countries that pledged to assist Lebanon’s reconstruction, during an international donor conference in Paris on Thursday (January 25th).

ANKARA, Turkey — Prosecutors have charged five people in connection with the murder last week of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. The suspects include the confessed triggerman Ogun Samast, 17.

BUCHAREST, Romania — Some 400 Chinese women working in a textile factory in the northern Romanian town of Bacau have called a strike to protest wages and living conditions.