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Ukraine has blocked transit shipment of Russian natural gas to Europe, escalating an acrimonious energy dispute dispute between the two countries and increasing the threat of a natural gas shortage in Europe, Ukrainian media reported Monday.
Executives from Ukrainian natural gas monopolist Naftogaz Ukrainy refused late Sunday evening...
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Women who are career-minded should only seek employment with Royal Dutch Shell, electronics manufacturer Philips or telecommunications company KPN - but the best treatment comes from the Dutch government, according to a survey published Thursday.
A survey conducted by marketing research institute TNS NIPO among 1,096 Dutch managers...
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The Romanian centre-right Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L) is to take the key economic portfolios in the country's new cabinet, while coalition partner - the socialist PSD party - is to receive social portfolios, including the ministry for work, families and social security, party sources said Wednesday.
The new cabinet is currently...
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European Union foreign ministers looked set to approve the re-launch of talks on a strategic treaty with Russia on Monday as the two most influential critics of any deal, Britain and Sweden, called for the EU to return to the negotiating table.
"While noting that a strategic partnership with Russia based on common values is not...
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Jelena Jankovic topped the year-ending women's tennis rankings issued on Monday by the WTA, with Venus Williams climbing into sixth place courtesy of her title at the 2008 finale in Doha.
Jankovic, who was stopped in the Doha semis by Williams, tops the final list with 4,710 points. She was assured of the 2008 top spot ahead of the...
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The European Union should re-open talks on a strategic deal with Russia which it froze following Russia's invasion of Georgia as soon as possible, the bloc's executive said Wednesday.
"It is the view of the (European) Commission that the next negotiating sessions should be scheduled now," a report from the Brussels-based...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy late Tuesday joined British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in calling for an increase in funding for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cut the risk of "financial contagion."
"We must find the ways and means to provide more funds for the IMF to support a certain number of countries -...
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Bavarian Finance Minister Erwin Huber said Wednesday he was stepping down from his post in the wake of the financial crisis that has engulfed the state-owned state BayernLB bank.
The troubled Munich-based BayernLB this week asked for 5.4 billion euros (7.1 billion dollars) from Berlin's bank rescue plan as a result, becoming the...
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Troubled German state bank BayernLB announced Wednesday a review of all its costs just one day after it said was tapping the government's financial rescue plan for 5.4 billion euros (7.1 billion dollars).
"We will be looking at all positions," said a spokesman of the Munich-based bank, which has been badly hit by the global...
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The German Government unveiled on Monday conditions for banks applying for financial support from its 480 billion-euro (645.46-billion dollar) bank rescue package as Berlin considers moves to help boost Europe's biggest economy in the face of an expected sharp global slowdown.
One of the first German banks to go to Berlin cap in hand...
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The Turkish military on Friday said 35 Kurdish separatists had been killed in clashes this week on Mount Cudi in the southeastern province of Sirnak.
A General Staff spokesman told reporters that the number of Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) deaths was learnt through intercepted PKK communications.
Recent weeks have seen an increase...
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European Union leaders agreed Thursday to harden their common stance towards Russia by saying its withdrawal from core Georgia was not a sufficient reason to re-open talks on a cooperation deal with Moscow.
While welcoming the Russian pull-out from the areas adjacent to the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, leaders...
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Russia's withdrawal of its soldiers from parts of Georgia outside the breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia is a good start, but it is not enough for EU member states to re-open talks on a strategic deal with Russia, EU leaders agreed Thursday.
The EU "welcomes the withdrawal of Russian troops from zones adjacent to...
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is due to rule Wednesday on Georgia's claim against Russia concerning the alleged violation of its territorial integrity in August.
Georgia says Russia violated international law by entering the province of South Ossetia on August 7.
It also claims Russia previously caused...
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Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders met on Monday to discuss power-sharing and governance in the latest round of talks on ending their decades-old conflict and reuniting the island.
It was the fifth meeting between Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat since they launched a new round of peace...
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Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders met on Monday to discuss power-sharing and governance in the latest round of talks on ending their decades-old conflict and reuniting the island.
It was the fifth meeting between Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat since they launched a new round of peace...
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European Union foreign ministers were Monday expected to postpone any decision to resume partnership talks with Russia amid disagreements over whether Moscow has complied with a peace deal in Georgia.
Ministers arriving at a meeting in Luxembourg indicated that reaching consensus on the strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement...
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The European Union was deadlocked on Friday over whether or not to re-start talks with Russia over a strategic partnership that it froze on September 1, despite Russia's troop withdrawal from Georgia, diplomats admitted.
EU foreign ministers are set to meet on Monday in Luxembourg for the first formal debate on relations with Russia...
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Networking website Facebook plans to set up its international headquarters in the Irish capital Dublin, Deputy Prime Minister Mary Coughlan said in a statement Thursday.
The Dublin headquarters was expected to offer technical and sales support to users and customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the statement said, without...
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European Union defence ministers were due to meet in the French coastal town of Deauville on Wednesday as the bloc's observers began a delicate ceasefire monitoring mission in Georgia.
Some 350 observers from 22 EU countries are tasked with ensuring that Russian troops withdraw to the positions they held prior to the August conflict,...
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Russian army leaders on Tuesday said they would not permit European Union observers to operate in a buffer zone in Georgia's renegade provinces Abkhazia and South Ossetia, despite an August promise seemingly allowing it.
Observers from an EU military mission taking up positions in the region to monitor a Russo-Georgian ceasefire...
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday called "not essential" the participation of its own troops in a mission of peacekeepers in a buffer zone between Georgia and its Russian-backed separatist regions.
Russia would trust the European Union's security guarantee, Lavrov told journalist in Moscow a day after French...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Moscow on Monday to urge his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev to withdraw troops from Georgia and save the peace deal he brokered last month.
Sarkozy is attempting to force Moscow's full compliance with the accord that stopped the five-day war over South Ossetia, by threatening to suspend...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy will spearhead international efforts to pressure Russia into withdrawing more troops from Georgia, in talks in Moscow and Tbilisi on Monday to save the ceasefire pact he brokered last month.
Sarkozy is attempting to force Moscow's full compliance with the accord that stopped the five-day war over South...
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Elements of Russia's Black Sea fleet shifted locations on Wednesday in an possible move to avoid a confrontation with a growing NATO warship flotilla near Georgia.
Russian naval vessels operating off of Georgia's coastline had moved from a station in the vicinity of the Georgian port Poti into "Abkhazian territorial waters,"...
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Germany and Estonia hope the European Union will find common ground on the Russian-Georgian conflict, yet differences between the two member states persisted Tuesday.
The six-point plan brokered by the French EU presidency to withdraw Russian troops from Georgia should "now be implemented," said German Chancellor Angela...
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Russia pledged to pull back the bulk of its troops from Georgia by the end of Friday, but planned to hold a buffer zone and "peacekeeping forces" in two breakaway regions, angering Western diplomats.
Colonel General Anatoly Nogovitsin, deputy head of the Russian military's general staff, said Friday that the Russian forces...
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The European Union wants to see Russian troops move out of Georgia "today," Javier Solana, the bloc's foreign policy chief, said in Brussels on Tuesday.
"Some troops are beginning to move ... and I hope very much that within the day, the troops will begin seriously to withdraw," said Solana.
The EU high...
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Georgia and Russia made their first prisoner exchange on Tuesday as NATO leaders were set to meet in Brussels on the Ossetia war and Moscow defended the delays so far in pulling its forces out of Georgia.
Russian officials at the Igoeti checkpoint, at the boundary between Georgian and Russian lines, handed over 13 Georgian prisoners...
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Georgia and Russia made their first prisoner exchange on Tuesday as NATO leaders were set to meet in Brussels on the Ossetia war.
Russian officials at the Igoeti checkpoint, at the boundary between Georgian and Russian lines, handed over 13 Georgian prisoners of war and received 5 Russian servicemen in exchange.
It was the first...
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Residents in the central Georgian city Gori expressed growing despair on Monday as Russian troops appeared to entrench their positions at check-points in the region over the weekend rather than preparing the promised pull-out of troops.
President Dmitry Medvedev pledged to "begin a withdrawal of the military contingent" from...
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Russia's military on Monday confirmed the start of the pullout of Russian forces from Georgia, in a statement following on earlier media reports.
Deputy chief of general staff Anatoly Nogovizyn announced at a press conference the start of the withdrawal.
"Russia has honourably thwarted Georgia's aggression against South...
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Russian forces have begun withdrawing from Georgia, with a first convoy of vehicles moving out of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali, Russia's state news agency RIA Nowosti reported Monday.
Citing local correspondents' reports, the agency said the Russian troop convoy was heading to Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia.
There was no...
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The UN Security Council was studying Tuesday a draft resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional end of hostilities in Georgia and the complete withdrawal of Russian and Georgian forces to their positions held prior to August 7.
The draft written by France, which holds the current presidency of the European Union, was...
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The Vatican
expressed on Tuesday its disapproval regarding the Church of England’s choice
to permit the consecration of women bishops, saying it represented a “further
obstacle” for settlement between the Anglicans and Roman Catholics.
The General Synod of the Church of England decided on Monday
to ordain women bishops, in spite...
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 Despite U.S. President’s George W. Bush efforts to offer a
membership action plan (MAP) for Ukraine and Georgia, NATO leaders
failed to reach consensus over the issue. Bush’s position directly contradicted
French and German government positions previously stated, which were supported
by Italy, Hungary and the Benelux
countries, a...
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 Prince Harry’s arrival back in UK will reportedly take place on Saturday. Prince Harry, who is third in line to the throne, will be met by his brother William and father Prince Charles at RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire.The decision to withdraw the Queen's 23-year-old grandson from the Afghan front was taken yesterday by Chief of the...
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 A heavy bomb blast targeting a Turkish military vehicle killed at least
five people and wounded more than 60, some seriously, in the
south-eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, police confirmed.
The attackers had detonated a strong car bomb, it was said.
Two soldiers and two children were reportedly among the dead.
Turkish Prime...
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 The sovereignty issue of the runaway Serb province Kosovo appeared to
have reached a dead end Wednesday in the UN Security Council as members
split in two camps, with the Europeans and the United States on one
side describing the differences as "irreconcilable."
The European Union members in the 15-nation council and the...
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 Two Kurdish rebels were killed in fighting in south-eastern Turkey as
Turkish troops continued large-scale operations against a 50 to 60
strong group of Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) guerrillas, the Dogan news
agency reported.
According to a statement posted on the General Staff's website, the
two PKK rebels were killed in a...
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 Europe may soon witness the birth of a new state, as a last round of
negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo on the future status of Kosovo
failed Wednesday.
"We regret that Serbia did not find it possible to agree to the
independent final state of Kosovo," the province's likely new prime
minister, Hashim Thaci, said at...
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 Positions remained inflexible on the second day of the last round of
talks on the future status of Kosovo as delegates from Belgrade and
Pristina continued their meetings Tuesday in the Austrian spa town
Baden, near Vienna.
But it became apparent that the efforts to find a compromise were
becoming ever more elusive as time was...
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 Positions were frozen as the delegations from Belgrade and Pristina
arrived on Monday in the Austrian spa town Baden for a last attempt at
reaching a compromise on the future status of the breakaway Serbian
province Kosovo.
Mediated by the Kosovo-troika, consisting of the European Union,
Russia and the United States, the talks are...
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 In a nationally televised speech held on Saturday on prime
time television, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that no EU country
had extradited members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, despite labeling the
PKK as a terrorist group.
He did not name a specific country, although Turkey
says the rebels take refuge and raise...
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 In a meeting held Thursday before a high-level Iraqi
delegation, the Turkish president said Turkey
is running out of patience and will not tolerate the use of Iraqi soil for the
purpose of launching terrorist activities.
The Turkish military, meanwhile, said troops had killed 30
Kurdish rebels who were preparing to attack a...
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 Pope Benedict XVI is getting ready to go on a three-day
pilgrimage to Austria
on Friday morning to bring a solemn tribute to Jewish Holocaust victims.
Before the visit, the German-born pontiff spoke of his affection
for Austria,
a mostly Catholic country "which has been near to me since my childhood.”
But the Pope, who...
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 The justice followed its normal course once more on Tuesday, as the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia passed down a 35-years sentence to ethnic Serbian politician Milan Martic for his deeds during the Croatian War of Independence.Martic was accused of banishing all non-Serb population from the self-proclaimed “Serbian...
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Kathmandu (dpa) - The United Nations on Tuesday said any new recruitment into the Maoist combat force or the Nepal army violates the peace agreement that ended the insurgency.
The UN Mission in Nepal expressed similar views to the past government about reports of new recruitment by the army in 2007.
The UN reaction followed a...
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Uganda said Tuesday that its forces are engaged in a multi-national offensive against Ugandan rebels in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo to force its leaders back into recently collapsed peace talks.
Ugandan, Congolese and southern Sudanese forces on December 14 began a joint attack on the Lord's Resistance Army...
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Up to 250 people have died over the past week in tribal clashes in the restive western Sudanese province of Darfur, the peacekeeping mission in Darfur said.
The UN and African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said that up to 150 people died when the Habbaniya ethnic group came under attack from the Fallata and Salamat groups in...
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After sparking outrage among Israel's Arab citizens, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni clarified Friday her remark that the solution for their national aspirations lay in the future Palestinian state.
Livni told Israel Radio that she had not been hinting at "transferring" or "moving" Israel's Arab citizens to...
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Nairobi/Goma (dpa) - A United Nations aid convoy taking supplies behind rebel lines in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is not enough to meed the needs of hordes of desperate refugees, aid organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned Tuesday.
Tens of thousands of civilians remain displaced after rebel Tutsi general...
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Calm has returned to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission said Thursday after four days of fighting that saw Tutsi rebels come close to taking the city of Goma.
General Laurent Nkunda, leader of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), Wednesday...
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Nigerian militants who have declared an "oil war" Monday said they attacked and destroyed an oil flow station complex owned by Shell in the restive Niger Delta province.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said Sunday it had begun operation "Hurricane Barbarossa" after Nigerian military...
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An army base situated in Abeibara, in Mali’s northern
desert was attacked by Tuareg rebels, as government officials announced on
Thursday. Seventeen rebels and fifteen soldiers were killed in the clashes,
according to Reuters. Ethnic Tuareg rebels claim they have captured weapons,
army vehicles and sixty soldiers.
For the moment,...
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 Embattled South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday used a speech
to members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) meeting to
elect a new leader to lash out at corruption in party ranks.
Mbeki is attempting to remain on as president of the party but is
expected to be routed by party deputy Jacob Zuma. Zuma's victory...
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 Local authorities have reported that fighting has again
erupted in eastern Congo's North Kivu province between forces loyal to
dissident General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army.
Rebels and Congo's armed forces on Monday battled for
control of key towns in North Kivu province.
Congo's army attacked the rebel stronghold of...
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 According to a local media report, at least three Ugandan
soldiers have been injured in an attack on African Union troops in Somalia's
capital where the 1,600 peacekeepers are based. AU spokesman Paddy Ankunda told the BBC that soldiers were
guarding Mogadishu's port when
mortars were fired at them. He called for more peacekeepers to...
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Renown Egyptian businessman Ashraf Marwan was buried Sunday in Cairo, but his death remains in the mist along with his alleged role as a Mossad agent.Marwan was laid to rest with the highest honours, numerous high-ranked dignitaries attending the service regardless of the controversy surrounding the son-in-law of Egypt's late president...
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A Palestinian militant leader denied reports Tuesday that Israeli ground troops had advanced into populated areas, saying the troops were in fact holding positions on the outskirts of Gaza City, the northern refugee camp of Jabaliya and the southern town of Khan Younis.
"I am telling the people in Gaza not to listen to those...
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Israel pounded Gaza from the air, sea and ground on the second full day of its ground offensive Monday, and Israeli leaders said the offensive will continue until the country's aims are met.
Palestinians said Israeli shelling had killed at least 24 Gazan civilians in the Strip, 13 of them children of two families
The Israeli army...
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Ukraine has blocked transit shipment of Russian natural gas to Europe, escalating an acrimonious energy dispute dispute between the two countries and increasing the threat of a natural gas shortage in Europe, Ukrainian media reported Monday.
Executives from Ukrainian natural gas monopolist Naftogaz Ukrainy refused late Sunday evening...
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Arab stock markets plummeted across the board this week under the pressure of declining oil prices and investors' gloomy outlook over annual results of listed firms, financial analysts said Friday.
"Falling oil prices are riding roughshod over regional stocks and helping to aggravate the lack of confidence that gripped Arab...
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Thousands of Ukrainian union workers protested wage freezes and job cuts in a host of industries hit by the world financial crisis.
More than 5,000 marchers, many Communist Party members or retirees, gathered in Kiev's central Maidan Nezaledzhnosti square. Police presence was minimal and the crowd was peaceful in Ukraine's first...
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Security forces battling an Islamist insurgency in Pakistan's troubled north-west killed 27 militants and lost two soldiers in fierce clashes overnight that also left seven civilians dead, media reports and officials said Tuesday.
Fifteen pro-Taliban rebels were killed and several injured when troops backed by helicopter gunships...
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In an apparent bid to end calls for international intervention against his regime, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe claimed Thursday that the cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800 people since August was over.
"Britain wants military intervention because of cholera," the 84-year-old autocrat told a gathering of party...
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Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police.
Yousaf Raza Gilani said Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, were detained in a raid this week at the offices of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
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Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police.
Meanwhile, Pakistani jet fighters, including F-16s, on Wednesday were flying over Islamabad with live ammunition as a media report said...
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International negotiators in Beijing spent Wednesday trying to hammer out a compromise on verifying the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
In the third day of talks in the latest round of six-party negotiations, the focus was on the draft of a protocol laying out the guidelines for nuclear facility inspections...
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China on Tuesday issued a draft agreement on a mechanism to verify North Korea's nuclear disarmament, as top nuclear negotiators from six countries entered into a second day of talks.
The delegates from the United States, China, Russia, Japan, North and South Korea were to review the draft and deliver their positions to China, South...
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Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus sent a letter to his Georgian counterpart, Mikheil Saakashvili, Friday congratulating him on five years in power and criticizing Russian "brutality".
"Five years ago, Georgia proclaimed to the world its resolve to embark on the path of freedom, democracy and reforms. You well knew...
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A suicide attacker killed at least three troops and injured three more Monday at an army check post in Pakistan's restive north-west Swat valley, a local military spokesman said.
"A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the post at around 11:45 am in Gashkor village of the district," Colonel Nadeem Ahmad...
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Five soldiers were killed on Monday in a suicide bombing at an army check post in Pakistan's restive Swat valley, security officials said.
"A suicide bomber riding a red colour Mazda Datsun (mini truck) hit the post this morning near Gashkor village. Five soldiers were killed while five more troops and three civilians were...
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Three civilians, including a 5-year-old boy, were killed and nine were taken hostage by Muslim separatist rebels in two attacks in the southern Philippines, police said Friday.
The civilians were slain when Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels attacked a military outpost Thursday in Midsayap town in North Cotabato province,...
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Two strategic coastal villages in north-western Sri Lanka, both frequently used by rebels to smuggle in military hardware from South India, were brought under government control after a fierce round of fighting, military officials said Thursday.
The two villages, known as Devil's Point and Vallaipadu, lie 360 kilometres north of...
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Sixteen Muslim separatist rebels were killed in clashes with government troops in the southern Philippines, the military said Tuesday.
Lieutenant Colonel Benedict Arevalo, an army commander, said the military did not suffer any casualties during the two clashes with Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels on Monday.
But...
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Islamabad on Monday asked the new head of US central command, General David Petraeus, to halt airstrikes inside Pakistan, saying these were harming its efforts to fight international terrorism.
"Continuing drone attacks on our territory, which result in loss of precious lives and property, are counterproductive and difficult to...
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Four Islamic militants were killed by Pakistani troops Monday as the new commander of US forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, General David Petraeus, held talks with the Pakistani leadership, officials said.
Gunmen in North-West Frontier Province also abducted an Afghan national believed to be a United Nations employee.
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At least 20 people, including five policemen and eight Taliban militants, were killed Friday in a suicide bombing and army airstrikes in Pakistan's tribal region and the neighboring North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials and media reports said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the office of a senior police officer,...
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Pakistani troops fired at Indian forward positions along a de facto border between the two countries in Jammu and Kashmir state, a news report said Tuesday.
The Pakistani troops fired rockets, mortars and small arms in forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch region late Monday night, a senior Indian army officer...
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Five people, including an al-Qaeda operative, were killed on Thursday in a suspected US airstrike in Pakistan's tribal area and a suicide attack in the neighboring North West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials said.
Three guided missiles hit a house in Sam area of South Waziristan tribal district, which is believed to have safe...
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Turkish war planes backed by artillery on Thursday night conducted attacks on a large group of Kurdish separatists inside northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced on Friday.
A Turkish General Staff spokesman said the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) group were attempting to cross into Turkey where they planned to carry out attacks on...
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Less than six hours after a helicopter drops a combined US and Afghan army patrol by the mountain border with Pakistan, Islamic insurgents surround and pound the unit into disarray.
The surprise attack from forested slopes around the troops' positions lasts 20 minutes, during which they are pinned down and barely able to hit back,...
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More than 30 militants were killed in various clashes with Afghan and international forces across Afghanistan in recent days, military sources said Thursday.
Additionally, 10 civilians were killed by suspected gunfire from Taliban militants.
In the latest incident, eight Taliban militants, including their district level commander,...
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