Eurasia

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission welcomed on Sunday the announcement of a gas deal between Russia and Ukraine but warned there had been false hopes before and was waiting to see gas actually flowing to European customers. “The Commission welcomes the announcement in Moscow of Prime Minister (Vladimir) Putin …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – An overnight outline deal struck by the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine aims to restore gas supplies to eastern Europe, crippled since January 7 in a dispute between Moscow and Kiev over prices. Following is a look at who stands to win and lose from the …

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan flies to Brussels on Sunday for a visit aimed at boosting the Muslim country’s troubled bid for European Union accession. Erdogan’s trip, his first to Brussels in four years, comes as Ankara faces EU pressure to speed up reforms in a decisive …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian and Serbian officials met in Belgrade earlier this week in a bid to improve ties between the two countries’ parliaments. At the meeting between Serbian Parliament Speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic and Iranian Ambassador to Serbia Seyed Morteza Mir Heydari, the two sides discussed promotion of bilateral parliamentary cooperation. …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Minister of Housing and Urban Development Mohammad Saeedi-Kia conferred with Yemeni Minister of Public Works and Roads Umar al-Kurshomi on further expansion of bilateral ties and mutual cooperation. The talks dealt with aspects of reinforcing bilateral cooperation between the two countries, particularly in areas of public works, …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and South Africa have decided to boost cooperation in oil, gas and petrochemical industries, a senior Iranian economic official said. Visiting Iranian Deputy Economy Minister Behrouz Alishiri made the remarks at the end of his official visit to South Africa. The visit to South Africa by the …

Close to half of Slovenians, some 47.5 percent, do not want to see their neighbour and fellow ex-Yugoslav Croatia join the European Union, according to a Median poll published in the Croatian weekly Globus. According to the telephone poll conducted from January 8 to 12 on a sample of 712 …

The United Nations mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, lied to Serbia when it was quizzed over an investigation into alleged trafficking of organs taken from ethnic Serbs during the Kosovo conflict, a spokesman for Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor said. Former U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte wrote in her memoirs, …

The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling all European Union member states to recognize July 11, the date of the start of the1995 Srebrenica massacre, as “a day of commemoration throughout the EU”. On July 11 1995, Bosnian Serb forces led by Ratko Mladic killed more than 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian …

A second day of protests by Bulgarian university students, environmental activists, farmers and pensioners ended peacefully outside the parliament building on Thursday, a day after demonstrators clashed with police and 158 people were detained. The January 15 protest, advertised by organisers as an outlet to express discontent at the way …