June 5, 2007 Romania, Romania News
Liderii PNL şi PNŢCD au semnat un acord de colaborare. Liberalii au continuat astăzi discuţiile cu ţărăniştii pentru formarea unui pol de centru-dreapta. Ieri, s-a încheiat un acord cu Alianţa Populară, condusă de Emil Constantinescu.
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June 5, 2007 Balkan News, Balkans
While it may take year before a state prison is in place in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the country must take urgent steps to deal with the shortcomings in its current detention system, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling said Friday (June 1st).
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June 5, 2007 Balkan News, Balkans
The youngest candidate and the one with the briefest party membership, Zoran Milanovic, is the new president of Croatia’s main opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP). He triumphed in the second round of voting at the extraordinary party convention on Saturday (June 2nd), winning 828 votes. His rival in the runoff, …
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June 5, 2007 Balkan News, Balkans
In a move aimed at creating a friendlier investment climate and making the economy more competitive, the Albanian government approved a fiscal package last week that includes implementing a 10% flat tax — the lowest level in Southeast Europe. Corporate taxes will also be slashed to 10%.
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June 5, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AFP) — Top Democratic presidential hopefuls traded their sharpest barbs yet of the 2008 White House race, as differences over Iraq burst into the open during their second televised debate.
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June 5, 2007 Iran, Iran News, Islamic World News, Islamic-World
TEHRAN (AFP) — Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday warned that Iran was prepared “to pay a price†and “resist†to realise the aims of its contested nuclear programme amid an intensifying standoff with the West.
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June 5, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
LONDON (AFP) — Israel has plunged the Palestinians into unprecedented levels of poverty and despair through 40 years of occupation, yet failed to ensure its own security, Amnesty International said Monday.
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June 5, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
KHARTOUM — Business leaders managing Sudan’s economic boom predict the new US sanctions imposed because of Darfur will have little impact on this country’s oil-based economy, mostly because they avoid targeting key Chinese interests here.
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June 5, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Violent attacks and retaliation by security forces led to the deaths of two police officers and five civilians in Mogadishu Monday, a day after Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammad Gedi escaped a suicide car bomb attack.
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June 5, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Islamic World News, Islamic-World
ISTANBUL — Turkish women are on the street protesting as never before as the fight to preserve Turkey’s secular status gives them a louder political voice that could translate into parliamentary seats in this summer’s elections.
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