Eurasia Press & News

Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said on Friday that parliamentary elections would be held “between February and March”, to be followed by a presidential vote in “early summer.” The elections will replace the leaders appointed after the army ousted elected president Mohamed Mursi in July. Fahmy’s comments to Reuters in an interview were the most specific …

On the sidelines of his participation in the General Conference of UNESCO, Caretaker President Moncef Marzouki, on Tuesday, held talks with French President François Hollande at the Elysée Palace in Paris. The meeting focused on ways to promote bilateral relations to the level of effective partnership in all areas, especially

“There is no difference between Zintan and capital Tripoli,” Saif told the country’s Alaseema TV in his first television appearance under detention. Libyan Attorney General Abdel Kader Radwan recently issued a request to the court in Zintan to hand over Saif al-Islam in order that the Criminal Court should try …

International experts have verified all but one of Syria’s 23 declared chemical weapons sites after viewing a video presented by the Syrian government showing the destruction of a facility in the country’s

Rwanda will deploy 140 police officers to reinforce the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, an official statement said Thursday. The maiden contingent, including 17 female police officers, will serve for one year in the West African nation.

A senior Albanian official said Thursday a EU delegation will make a key assessment of the country’s readiness for EU candidate country status, which could be an opportunity for Brussels to know the Balkan country better. Albanian Minister of European Integration Klajda Gjosha made the remarks while meeting with the …

The eighth round of Vietnam-India strategic national defense dialogue was convened in Vietnam’s southern Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, which was co-chaired by Vietnamese deputy defense minister Nguyen Chi Vinh and Indian

Russian and U.S. senior diplomats agreed at their meeting in Geneva the Syrian opposition was not ready for a peace conference in Geneva, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. “Taking into account the non-readiness of a number of Syrian government opponents to participate in the intra-Syrian talks without preconditions, it …

Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit to Armenia on December 1st or 2nd. Economic, political and strategic issues will be on the presidential meeting agenda, among other areas to be discussed. Yerevan will host an Armenian-Russian business forum on December 1 through 4, with Russian delegation to include 500 …

Morocco on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Algeria for consultation on relations between the two countries, the Moroccan Foreign Ministry said in a statement.