July 31, 2007 Balkan News, Balkans
Balkan states should continue judicial and security reforms if they want the current EU visa restrictions for their citizens
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July 31, 2007 Balkan News, Balkans
German career diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger was named Sunday (July 29th) as the EU’s representative in the upcoming talks between Belgrade and Pristina on Kosovo’s future status.
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July 31, 2007 Balkan News, Balkans
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic arrived in Washington on Thursday (July 26th), pledging that he would strive to reduce tensions over the Kosovo issue. His visit came just days after Kosovo Albanian representatives met with US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, who reiterated US support for granting sovereignty to the …
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July 31, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
An Israeli parliament committee passed a measure on Monday that would strip many post-office perks from disgraced former president Moshe Katsav, embroiled in a sex scandal. The Knesset finance committee voted to strip privileges accorded to former presidents, prime ministers, ministers and magistrates who have been convicted of moral turpitude …
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July 31, 2007 Iran, Iran News
Iran allowed UN inspectors to revisit a heavy-water reactor site on Monday, a place off-limits since April, in a show of transparency meant to help ward off harsher UN sanctions over its disputed nuclear activity.
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July 31, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Darfur’s rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) has split again, a spokesman said on Monday, ahead of a United Nations and African Union (AU) meeting to unite the insurgents before peace talks with the Sudanese government.
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July 31, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
Israel launched an air strike on Monday against a vehicle in the central Gaza Strip, wounding seven people, three of them activists, medics said.
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July 31, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
JORDAN ON MONDAY took part in the meeting of the Arab League to discuss the efforts of the league’s ministerial committee tasked with rallying support for the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.
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July 31, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Iraq’s parliament went into summer recess for a month on Monday after political leaders failed to agree on a series of laws that Washington sees as crucial to stabilising the country.
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July 31, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
According to the source inside the Staff of Eastern Front of CRI Armed Forces, in early July up to 40 armed Kadyrovans fled to the mountains to the Mujahideen. According to the source, former Kadyrovans were taken to the special quarantine base in the mountains of Chechnya.
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