August 2, 2008 Iran, Iran News
The Norwegian StatoilHydro company has not officially announced that it would withdraw from activities in an Iranian oil field, Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari said on Saturday.
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August 2, 2008 Iran
The managing director of Pars Special Economic Energy Zone (PSEEZ) says foreign firms are active in its gas and petrochemical projects.
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August 2, 2008 Iran, Iran News
The US insists on a ‘weekend’ deadline for NPT signatory Iran to reply to an incentives package for suspending its nuclear program.
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August 2, 2008 Iran
Patriarhia Rusa a facut apel la gasirea unor noi modaliÂtati de participare a Rusiei si fostelor republici sovietice, cu populatie majoritar ortoÂdoxa, la procesele de inteÂgrare 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 …
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August 2, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Romania, Romania News
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 …
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August 1, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
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.
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August 1, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
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.
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August 1, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
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.
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August 1, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
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.
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August 1, 2008 Magreb, Magreb News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
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.
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