WASHINGTON US Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Georgia and Ukraine next month for talks on boosting the former Soviet republics’ economies and supporting democratic reforms, his office said Monday. Both trips involve political sensitivities with Russia, and the visit would come shortly after US President Barack Obama travels …

BEIJING Chinese top political advisor Jia Qinglin met here Monday with Mircea Geoana, the visiting president of Romania’s senate, and called on both sides to take cooperation to a higher level. 

Bulgarian immigrants in Germany, who will face huge obstacles if they want to vote in the upcoming general elections of their home country, did not receive a satisfactory explanation from the Foreign Ministry. In a letter to the country’s ambassador in Berlin, the Bulgarians asked last week for more information …