07 November 2008 Pristina – A recent study finds that bribery is an unavoidable part of doing business in Kosovo.

07 November 2008 Belgrade – The Serbian dinar continued its slide against the euro after a brief respite earlier this month.

07 November 2008 Tirana – The Albanian parliament has ratified an agreement with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia accepting to take in convicted war criminals.

RAMALLAH, Nov. 7 – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denied on Friday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is holding political prisoners in its prisons, contrary to what Islamic Hamas movement claims.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A senior Iraqi official on Thursday explicitly backed U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s plans to withdraw combat troops from the country by mid-2010, Baghdad’s clearest endorsement yet of Obama’s exit strategy.

LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) – Eleven European politicians sailed to Gaza from Cyprus Friday after saying attempts to get to the Palestinian territory via Egypt failed.

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Russia faces a lingering terrorist threat and cannot drop its guard, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday, a day after a suspected suicide bombing killed 12 people.

The Israeli military is investigating a video in which a Palestinian detainee appears to be humiliated by a group of Israeli soldiers.

There was tension on the streets of the Georgian capital, with a protest against the presidency of Mikhail Saakashvili.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has cut oil production by 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 4.04 million bpd, in line with OPEC’s Oct. 24 decision to find ways to support declining crude prices, a director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said on Friday.