Eurasia Press & News

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has a new top international envoy. Slovak diplomat Miroslav Lajcak took over the post of high representative and EU special representative (EUSR) on July 1st, succeeding Germany’s Christian Schwarz-Schilling.

An international journalist rights group is calling on Iran to re-open a trial into the murder of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi.

Aftenposten, the Norwegian daily reported today that Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre called the stoning on an Iranian man “inhumane and barbaric.”

Iranian mullahs’ persistence on uranium enrichment for the purpose of acquiring nuclear weapons created a folly today.  The mullahs denied nuclear enrichment activities slow down; but removed the report shortly after it was published.

Al-Jazeerah, July 3, 2007- The Iranian opposition coalition, in which the People’s Mojahedin organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has a leading role, organized a large gathering in the French capital, Paris.

Bulgarian nurse Snezhana Dimitrova has spent eight years in a Libyan jail and her family is convinced that a court there will on Wednesday confirm the death sentences passed on her and five other foreign medics.

Small majorities of Iranians say their country should develop nuclear weapons and they would feel safer if Tehran possessed such arms, according to a rare public opinion poll of Iranian citizens.

Ali Ahmed is living “the garden life,” as a new bit of Iraqi slang puts it. Two years after earning his engineering degree, the 27-year-old is among Iraq’s teeming numbers of jobless with nothing to do but hang out in Baghdad’s parks.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, visiting former colonies in North Africa on Tuesday, said France should recognise its colonial history but not repent for it.

Whether it be mothers who lost their sons in combat or other Shiites whose homes were destroyed in Israel’s blitz of Beirut a year ago, Hizbollah is still riding high on its home turf.