Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet Thursday his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko to try to prevent new gas crisis. The two leaders will meet in the Livadiya Castle in Crimean resort Yalta, where in 1945 Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill have redrawn the after war map.

European Union leaders will gather in Brussels later to select their first full-time president and foreign affairs high representative. The heads of the 27 EU member nations are divided over which candidates to choose, and after-dinner negotiations are expected to last into the night. Former UK prime minister Tony Blair …

The Cyprus government rejected on Wednesday a Turkish proposal for a five-party conference under the United Nations’ supervision to discuss a solution of the Cyprus problem. Cyprus President and Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias stated that the proposal was reminiscent of a procedure followed in 2003, which resulted in a …