 Javno.hr | Stakes high as Balkan states await NATO invite Reuters - Most Balkan states are no longer potential military adversaries of NATO. Next week, Croatia, Macedonia and Albania hope to join the Western alliance, ... |
 Swissinfo | Calmy-Rey under fire over Balkan visit Swissinfo, Switzerland - As Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey prepares for a five-day trip to three Balkan countries, including Kosovo, critics are questioning her motives. ... Swiss pledge support for Bosnia Switzerland set to open embassy in Kosovo Another Tack: No Swiss surprise |
Brassier than Balkan brass Prague Post, Czech Republic - By James Scanlon Contemporary Balkan music has been enjoying something of a renaissance, with many performers building on the old traditions with a more ... |
Prime Income Asset Management Advisor, Gene E. Phillips, Briefs ... FOXBusiness - Balkan Energy, a privately owned energy company, which handles power projects in developing countries, is currently refurbishing a barge-mounted power ... |
Updated news from Balkan Europe Girodivite, Italy - ... will invest $415 million (263 million euro) in Bulgaria, aiming to capitalise on the fast development of the Balkan region, Trakya Cam said on Thursday. ... Updated news from Balkan Europe |
Belgium, Netherlands against EU warming to Serbia; want war crimes ... International Herald Tribune, France - AP BRDO PRI KRANJU, Slovenia: Widening a rift over Serbia, Belgium and the Netherlands said they oppose steps to quickly make the Balkan nation an EU ... |
Foreign Islamists target vulnerable Macedonia minorities Jane's, UK - Although ethnic Albanians (25 per cent of Macedonia's population of two million people are Albanian) make up the majority of the Balkan country's Islamic ... |
 Alalam News Network | A Divided EU to Weigh Its Russia and China Relations The Moscow Times, Russia - Ministers will also seek to give tangible incentives to west Balkan countries to pursue European integration. The EU is divided on how to deal with a ... EU foreign ministers to meet on Middle East, Russia EU to Discuss Syria, Russia, Kosovo EU hoping to restart talks on cooperation deal with Russia |
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 CBC.ca | US Planes Attack Militia Strongholds in Basra Fighting New York Times - By ERICA GOODE BAGHDAD —American military forces for the first time conducted air strikes on targets in Basra late Thursday, joining Iraqi security forces in trying to oust Shiite militias in the southern port city. US Armor Forces Join Offensive In Baghdad Against Sadr Militia Iraqi leader extends date for militias to disarm |
 Twin Falls Times-News | Tibet Official Says Monks Involved in Protest in Front of Foreign ... Voice of America - By VOA News A high-level official in Tibet says monks who disrupted a government-led media tour of the capital Lhasa Thursday will not be punished. |
 BBC News | Mugabe Dissolves Cabinet Prior to Zimbabwean Elections Voice of America - By Scott Bobb Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has dissolved his Cabinet prior to national elections on Saturday. Nearly six million registered voters are due to go to the polls but the opposition says there already are signs of irregularities. Zimbabwe: Security Forces on High Alert Zimbabwe - on the verge of change? |
 BBC Bulgaria | Italians wary of mozzarella scare but eat on Reuters - By Marie-Louise Gumuchian MILAN (Reuters) - Carefully selecting a lump of fine buffalo mozzarella, a Milan cheesemonger points to a certificate stuck to the glass-fronted fridge which is meant to appease cautious customers about its origins and quality ... France bans some mozzarella sales EU backs off threat to ban Italian mozzarella from Campania |
 Javno.hr | More Arab leaders snub Syria, skip summit Reuters - By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Jonathan Wright DAMASCUS (Reuters) - More Arab kings and presidents on Friday joined the long list of leaders staying away from an Arab summit hit by a campaign to punish the Syrian hosts for backing the Lebanese opposition. Absences overshadow Arab summit Abbas arrives in Damascus for Arab League summit |
 CTV.ca | Queen's PM joke Monsters and Critics.com - Britain's Queen Elizabeth was overheard apparently mocking Prime Minister Gordon Brown after he seemed to get lost during a state banquet. Style dominates Sarkozy visit coverage Sarkozy, Brown pledge market turmoil action |
 CTV.ca | Cuba's new government to allow ordinary Cubans to get cell phone ... International Herald Tribune - AP HAVANA: President Raul Castro's government said Friday it is allowing cell phones for ordinary Cubans, a luxury previously reserved for those who worked for foreign firms or held key posts with the communist-run state. Cuba Lifts Ban on Use of Mobile Telephones, Improving Access to ... Cuba lifting restrictions on mobile phones |
 Turkish Press | North Korea Test-Fires Missiles Washington Post - By Blaine Harden TOKYO, March 28 -- North Korea test-fired a volley of missiles into the sea Friday and warned that it might stop disabling its nuclear facilities unless the United States drops its demands for more details about the North's nuclear ... North Korea Test-Fires Missiles South Korea Confirms North Korean Missile Launches |
 Daily Star - Lebanon | Oil pulls back after rise on Iraq blast Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Oil eased to near $107 a barrel on Friday as crude flows though Iraq's pipeline system were restored after disruption by a bomb attack a day earlier. The 'two disaster' rule on oil pricing Sector trades mixed, but up for the week |
 Gulf Times | Anti-China Protests Escalate in Nepal Voice of America - By VOA News About 20 Tibetan teenagers scaled the walls of the United Nations compound in the Nepali capital Friday, while police arrested dozens of other pro-Tibet demonstrators outside. Tibetan children in Nepal protest Tibetan teens stage 'polite' protest |
 Alalam News Network | Cities to Switch Off Lights for 'Earth Hour' Discovery Channel - March 28, 2008 -- Twenty-six major cities around the world are expected to turn off the lights on major landmarks, plunging millions of people into darkness to raise awareness about global warming, organizers said. Lights Out Globally Saturday Night for 'Earth Hour' A movement that spans the world |
 National Post | NATO ties hinge on Ukraine-Georgia issue: Kremlin Reuters - By Oleg Shchedrov MOSCOW (Reuters) - The fate of bids by ex-Soviet Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO will show if the Western alliance is serious about cooperating with Russia or bent on going it alone, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday. Russia offers aid in Afghanistan, but links it to NATO concerns Russia offers help in Afghanistan 'if NATO curbs eastward ... |
 Boston Globe | * Negroponte says no ‘hidden agenda’ behind visit Pakistan Link - By Irfan Ali KARACHI: It is for Pakistanis to decide President Pervez Musharraf’s future and the US will not interfere in Pakistan’s political arrangements, US Deputy Secretary of State John D Negroponte said on Thursday. US envoy defends Pakistan visit News Analysis A New Diplomatic Order in Pakistan |
 Sofia News Agency | Poll finds a broad desire to cooperate with Russia on missile defense International Herald Tribune - By John C. Freed PARIS: As leaders of NATO prepare to gather in Bucharest next week, sentiment is widespread in its six largest countries that the United States should cooperate with Russia over missile defenses in Eastern Europe. Bush and Putin bank on friendship to heal rifts 'Differences' remain between Russia, US on missiles |
 National Post | Phillip Coorey Chief Political Correspondent in Washington Sydney Morning Herald - KEVIN RUDD was to formally tell the US President, George Bush, yesterday that Australia would withdraw its combat troops from Iraq and compensate by increasing financial and humanitarian help and by training Iraqi security forces outside the country. Zimbabwe: Australia, US to Discuss Country Ahead of Elections Rudd, Bush Discuss US-Australia Ties, Climate, Iraq (Update1) |
 Boston Globe | Clinton walks tightrope on strength and emotion Reuters - By Jeff Mason WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Be strong or show some emotion? Stick to policy or share your private life? |
 Canada.com | Palestinian Affairs: Abbas's latest headaches Jerusalem Post - By KHALED ABU TOAMEH Almost every morning for the past few weeks, Palestinians have been waking up to yet another scandal involving top leaders of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction. Israeli troops kill Hamas gunman in Gaza Palestinian killed in Gaza Strip |
 KCBY.com 11 | Iraq: 2 guards to Iraq's vice president killed during Green Zone ... International Herald Tribune - AP BAGHDAD: Extremists lobbed more rockets or mortars against the US-protected Green Zone Friday in Baghdad, with some falling short and killing two guards outside the Iraqi vice president's office. Office of Iraq Vice President hit in missile attack 85 minutes of violence in Iraq |
 Calgary Herald | Colombia offers Farc hostage deal Aljazeera.net - The Colombian government has offered to suspend the sentences of hundreds of rebel fighters if it frees Ingrid Betancourt, a captive French-Colombian politician, and other hostages. Colombia reiterates readiness to exchange FARC rebels (Roundup) Colombia Offers to Free Jailed Rebels If Hostages Are Released |
 Turkish Press | Puerto Rico governor turns self in to FBI CNN International - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Puerto Rico Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila has surrendered on federal corruption charges. Puerto Rico Gov. Puerto Rican Governor Faces 19 Counts Fraud charges just politics, Puerto Rico's governor says |
