TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran dismissed formation of the Group of 20 to end the global financial crisis as an “inefficient policy”. “Nobody has authorized these 20 countries to make decisions for 190 countries. This rationale which is based on a number of countries’ decision-making for the world according to their own …

A Kosovo parliamentary commission has recommended that the government implements an embargo on Serbian and Bosnian goods as a tit-for-tat response to Serbia and Bosnia blocking and taxing Kosovo’s exports. Serbia rejects the secession by Kosovo’s Albanian majority last February and has vowed never to accept it as an independent …

The case of a teenage girl who wants to wear her headscarf to school is creating waves in Macedonia, with educational authorities, local officials and teachers locked in a tug-of-war over religous freedom and the right to education. The girl, who attends a high school in the western Macedonian town …