Patriarhia Rusa a facut apel la gasirea unor noi modali­tati de participare a Rusiei si fostelor republici sovietice, cu populatie majoritar orto­doxa, la procesele de inte­grare in structurile UE, informeaza Interfax. Demersurile bisericii conduse de Patriarhul Alexei al II-lea, ofiter al fostelor servicii secrete sovietice KGB, vin dupa o recenta …

Noile realitati geopolitice impun Moscovei mai multe aspecte cu care guvernantii de la Kremlin nu sunt de acord. Printre acestea se numara probleme legate de instalarea scutului antiracheta american pe teritoriul european, bazele militare americane de la Marea Neagra din Bulgaria si Romania, eventuala aderare la NATO a Georgiei si …

GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas security forces arrested Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s top Fatah representatives in the Gaza Strip on Friday, ratcheting up tensions between the rival factions.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel’s peace efforts with Syria should continue, without preconditions, after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert steps down, a candidate to succeed him said on Friday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Calling graft a threat to Russia’s security, President Dmitry Medvedev released on Friday his national plan to fight red tape and corruption.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A top manager of the now defunct YUKOS business empire was sentenced on Friday by a Russian court to life in prison for ordering a series of high profile murders, a verdict he dismissed as the result of a show trial organized by the Kremlin.

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) – Egyptian police shot dead an unidentified African migrant and detained two others while they were trying to cross illegally into Israel on Friday, a security official and a medical source said.

KABUL (Reuters) – Violence in Afghanistan has reached its worst level since 2001 with more than 260 civilians killed in July alone, a group of 100 aid agencies said on Friday, calling on all sides to do more to protect the lives of non-combatants.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The former U.S. peace mediator for Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke, on Thursday dismissed a claim by Radovan Karadzic that the United States had offered a deal that would spare him prosecution for war crimes.

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security services on Thursday to release all pro-Hamas activists arrested in the occupied West Bank this week, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said.