The recent bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi (allegedly by members of the Islamic militant group Hezbollah) may underline one of the most fascinating political relationships in the world -- the friendly links between India and Israel.

• February 14, 2012

ISSUE #4
02/06/2012
Ukraine's ruling Party of Regions has refused to decriminalize the articles of the Ukrainian Criminal Procedures Code under which former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko was convicted. On 31 January 2012, the Party of Regions parliamentary faction's head, Oleksandr Yefremov, said that his party had no intention to consider the decriminalization of Article 364 entitled “Abuse of power or position” and Article 365 which deals with exceeding one's power or authority. These are the articles under which Yuliya Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years behind bars. “The faction did not take other decisions,” the politician explained. READ MORE

• February 14, 2012

ISSUE #5
02/13/2012
On 9 February 2012, the Ukrainian parliament adopted in the first reading a presidential draft of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC). The Ukrainian news and analysis website Lb.ua reported that the presidential draft of the CPC was registered in parliament on 13 January 2012. A group of lawmakers headed by presidential advisor Andriy Portnov has been working on it for a year and a half. READ MORE

• February 14, 2012

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov has today received ambassador of Uzbekistan to Azerbaijan Ismatilla Ergashev who has completed his diplomatic mission in the country the Ministry's press-service told Trend on Monday.

• February 13, 2012

China and Russia declined to say Monday whether they would support an Arab League initiative calling for the U.N. Security Council to back a joint U.N.-Arab peacekeeping force for Syria.

• February 13, 2012

A US envoy will hold talks with North Korea on its nuclear program in Beijing next week, the first such negotiations since the death of the nation's longtime leader, Kim Jong II.

• February 13, 2012

NATO special representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai visited Azerbaijan on February 11 to discuss routes from NATO cargo to, and from Afghanistan.

• February 11, 2012

A group of European vote monitors say they have been denied a meeting with Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin because of his busy schedule

• February 11, 2012