November 12, 2008 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
12 November 2008 Belgrade -Â The Serbian Orthodox Church Synod has rejected Patriarch Pavle`s request to step down, unofficial sources told B92.
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November 12, 2008 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
12 November 2008 Skopje – Redza Zulkani, the brother-in-law of Menduh Thaci, the leader of the main opposition ethnic Albanian party in Macedonia, was shot dead late Tuesday, local media reported.
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November 12, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
GAZA, Nov. 12 – Hamas, which controls Gaza Strip, and the Islamic Jihad on Wednesday reiterated that they boycotted Egyptian efforts for an inter-Palestinian dialogue to reconcile between the main rival factions of Hamas and Fatah.
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November 12, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected U.S. proposals aimed at easing concerns over a missile defense system in Europe and said it would try again to resolve the row once Barack Obama is in the White House.
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November 12, 2008 Afghanistan, Afghanistan News
KABUL (Reuters) – Six people were killed and at least 40 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on government buildings in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, officials said, but a brother of the Afghan president who was in one of the offices was unhurt.
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November 12, 2008 Afghanistan, Afghanistan News
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan has executed four men, including three linked to deadly attacks by Taliban and al Qaeda insurgents, a state newspaper said on Wednesday.
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November 12, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A suicide car-bomber killed two Pakistani soldiers and wounded four on Wednesday in an attack on military camp in the northwestern town of Shabqadar, a military official said.
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November 12, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
Israeli troops have killed four Palestinian militants in a gunbattle on the Gaza border, Palestinians say.
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November 12, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Magreb, Magreb News
A controversial move to lift the limits on presidential terms in Algeria has been approved by the country’s parliament.
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November 12, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Russia buries its dead — as thousands of mourners pay homage to the victims killed in the nuclear submarine Nerpa.
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