A mission from the International Monetary Fund will return to Romania on Jan. 21 to resume aid talks, senate speaker and opposition leftist leader Mircea Geoana said on Monday. Last week Romania’s new centrist coalition government approved an austerity budget for 2010, key to unlocking loan tranches from a 20 …

Freshly uncovered ancient artifacts could strengthen the Macedonian position in the “name” talks with neighboring Greece if only Athens would recognise the argument of facts, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said on Sunday. 

Interior ministers of Azerbaijan and Georgia discussed the situation with combating the transnational crime. Azerbaijani Minister of Internal Affairs, Colonel-General Ramil Usubov received his Georgian colleague Vano Merabishvili today, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs press-service said.