Eurasia Press & News

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States and Israel said after high-level talks here Wednesday that the time might not be ripe for the Jewish state to resume peace talks with arch-rival Syria.

AMMAN — The government on Wednesday said it has asked the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem to clarify his position on “documented evidence” that the patriarchate was involved in at least 12 transactions to sell or lease church property.

Senatul a aprobat azi prelungirea termenului până la care Comisia de anchetă privind legalitatea privatizării SNP Petrom trebuie să depună raportul final.

Tranzacţie specială cu 4% din Interconinental pe piaţa Rasdaq.  Pe piaţa specială s-a transferat un pachet de 33,5 milioane de titluri în valoare de 9,1 milioane de lei. Tranzacţia s-a făcut la preţul de 27,2 bani, cu 4,5% sub cel de referinţă.

Verdict în cazul Steven Merkes. Fostul angajat al Departamentului Apărării din SUA a fost condamnat la un an de închisoare pentru luare de mită de la omul de afaceri american din România, Phillip Bloom. ÃŽn schimbul banilor, Merkes a facilitat obÅ£inerea unor contracte guvernamentale în România ÅŸi Irak pentru compania …

Relatives of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre took legal action against the UN and the Netherlands on Monday (June 4th) for allowing thousands of Bosnian Muslims to be killed by Bosnian Serb forces.

The EU supports Turkey’s struggle against terrorism, but would discourage the country from launching an incursion into northern Iraq, diplomats said on Monday (June 4th) as a high-level meeting got under way in Ankara.

Serbian police confirmed last week that they have detained 12 people suspected of involvement in atrocities committed in the Croatian village of Lovas in October and November 1991. They include four members of the former Yugoslav People’s Army, four members of a local Serb territorial defence force, and four volunteer …

BEIRUT — “Gone fishing” says the notice on the door of a club in a usually bustling Beirut bar district which has been deserted since bomb attacks last week.

TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran’s judiciary confirmed on Tuesday the detention of an Iranian-American social scientist on charges of spying, one of a number that US officials and think tanks had reported held.