BUCHAREST, Romania — Bucharest on Friday (June 8th) rejected a new report by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s rapporteur, Dick Marty, that suggests Romania hosted secret CIA detention centres from 2003 to 2005.

ST PETERSBURG, Russian Federation –Russia’s position on Kosovo is well-known and has not changed, Russian leader Vladimir Putin told Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica in St Petersburg on Saturday (June 9th).

President Bush visits Albania, backs Kosovo independence TIRANA, Albania — US President George W. Bush arrived in Tirana Sunday (June 10th) to an enthusiastic welcome, with thousands turning out in the capital’s main square to greet him.

NCRI – In mid-June, the defense committee of Iranian regime’s Supreme National Security Council held meetings with some commanders of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).

NCRI – In the past 4 years the mullahs’ regime has tried hard to impose its full control on the Iraqi Diala province which has 240 kilometers of common border with Iran and said to be the entrance to Baghdad. Using the Quds force the Iranian regime has mobilized its …

Europolitics – Under pressure from Iran and to keep open the nuclear talks with Tehran, the EU is said to be violating the fundamental rights of one of the leading exiled organisations opposed to the Mollah regime by keeping it on the list of terrorist groups in spite of an …

The Observer – A British company has been closed down after being caught in an apparent attempt to sell black-market weapons-grade uranium to Iran and Sudan, The Observer can reveal.

Belgium- (VRT Television) – A man is arrested in Tehran streets and is brutally tortured by masked men in public.

NAIROBI — “We prefer hijacking ships to being on land because that way we can feed ourselves,” pirate Abdulahi Hasan Afdhub told AFP by satellite phone from a hijacked Taiwanese ship in Somali waters.

VIENNA (Reuters) — Iran faces heightened criticism over its escalating nuclear activity at a UN watchdog meeting this week that will provide a barometer of sentiment for broader sanctions against Tehran.