November 18, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Pakistan, South East Asia
Interior Minister says Musharraf had committed crimes against the people of Pakistan and against the constitution. The Pakistan government announced on Sunday it would put former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason for imposing emergency rule in the country in November 2007.
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November 18, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Balkans News, Eurasia, Eurasia News
The UN’s refugee agency has voiced concerns over reports that Greece and Bulgaria were turning back Syrians fleeing their war-ravaged homeland, forcing them to return to overloaded Turkey.
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November 18, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Magreb, Magreb News
Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is shocked and saddened by the latest acts of violence in Tripoli, which resulted in the death of dozens of people, said an AU statement on Sunday. The chair person is deeply concerned at the increasing violence and lawlessness in the country, including a series of similar incidents in Benghazi and other cities in recent weeks, said the statement.
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November 15, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, India, South East Asia
British Prime Minister David Cameron said here on Thursday that the United Nations Security Council should be modernised and India made a permanent member of the body. “The Security Council ought to include India as their permanent member there is no doubt about it,” Mr. Cameron said at an interaction …
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November 15, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
EULEX, KFOR and UNMIK should stay in Kosovo “as long as possible so as to ensure peace and security for all citizens, primarily Serbs,” says Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Ivica Dačić. The prime minister told reporters that he also said that to EULEX chief Bernd Borchardt earlier in the day …
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November 15, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Turkey
Azerbaijan’s Defence Minister, Colonel-General Zakir Hasanov received the Ambassador of Turkey to Azerbaijan, Ismail Alper Coskun, the Defence Ministry said on Nov. 15.
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November 15, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
The European Union and the United States of America ministerial meeting on justice and home affairs will take place in Washington on Monday. The EU and US delegations are going to exchange information on the recent
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November 15, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
A Syrian government delegation will meet officials in Moscow Monday to discuss preparations for an international peace conference that Russia, the United States and the United Nations are trying to convene.
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November 15, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
French forces have “neutralised” several Al-Qaeda members in Mali’s troubled north, where the group claimed responsibility for the execution of two French journalists, the chief of defence staff in Paris said Thursday.
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November 15, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Russia is offering to sell Egypt modern helicopters and air defence systems in a landmark deal reportedly worth $2 billion that would mark a revival of large-scale military cooperation, a Russian official said Friday.
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