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Pakistan to provide Tajikistan easy access to its sea ports
Pakistan agreed to discuss frameworks that would facilitate trade and economic relations between Pakistan and Tajikistan to provide latter an easy access to its ports, especially to its southwestern Gwadar Port, local media reported
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An Indian-Pakistani nuclear exchange
George Perkovich, director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, confessed to his audience, "Those who really know what's going on in Pakistan's nuclear complex aren't talking about it, and those who are talking, including myself, don't really know what's going on in Pakistan's nuclear complex."
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Ukraine searching for a place in Europe
In the upheaval following World War I and with revolution in the air across Europe, Ukraine followed the example of Poland and Finland to gain independence out of the ruins of imperial Russia.
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Obama Meets Kyrgyz President Otunbaeva At White House
U.S. President Barack Obama has held talks at the White House with Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbaeva.
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The Putin-Barroso Gas Summit Flares Up EU-Russia relations
Vladimir Putin headed the Russian delegation and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso headed the EU delegation. The agenda of the visit of the Russian delegation included three issues: Russia’s accession to the WTO; the EU-Russia energy trade; and the free visa regime for Russians traveling to the EU.
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Azerbaijan, Armenia back peaceful resolution of Karabakh
Armenia and Azerbaijan held talks Saturday on the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region, signalling their wish to resolve the conflict peacefully after tensions heightened in recent months.
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Insurgency in Russia's Caucasus a growing threat
A police officer stopped at a traffic light in Dagestan's capital is gunned down from an adjacent car. A driver blows himself up at a checkpoint. The mayor has survived 15 assassination attempts.
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Philippine planes confront China in disputed South China Sea
Two Philippine military planes chased Chinese patrol boats from disputed waters in the South China Sea on March 2. The Philippine military claims that the patrol boats were harassing a Philippine vessel belonging to a private oil firm conducting seismic explorations of the natural gas and oil reservoirs in the Reed Bank, located 240 kilometers off the west coast of Palawan.
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