Ukraine-EU summit begins in Brussels
Journalists were present at an official ceremony of a meeting of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.
Turkey offers Armenia to participate in regional project in case of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement
Turkey has proposed that Armenia take part in its comprehensive regional transportation project linking Europe to Asia, if there are concrete developments in solving Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, presenting this proposal also to OSCE Minsk Group, Turkish Hürriyet Daily News newspaper reported.
Call for tougher Belarus sanctions
Opposition politician Andrei Sannikov, recently released from jail in his native Belarus, urged the international community to impose tougher sanctions on his country to end human rights abuses
Iran announces nuclear expansion
Iran says it has found major new uranium deposits and is planning to expand its nuclear power programme.
New ties to Russia would benefit U.S.
A sign of Russia’s defensiveness, bordering on paranoia, is that some senior Russian officials regard the recent buzz about shale gas and oil as American propaganda designed to undermine Moscow’s clout as an energy producer.
Ukraine signs contract with Germany's RWE to import 5 bcm of gas, says Ukrainian president
Ukraine has signed a contract for the supply of natural gas with an annual volume of up to five billion cubic meters (bcm) with Germany's RWE, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said.
Time is ripe for EU to hold Russia to account
Despite what the Kremlin says, Russia is not threatened by so-called Western values.
Iran says nuclear talks should focus on co-op
Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereidoon Abbasi, said that the upcoming nuclear talks between Tehran and the P5+1 -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany -- should focus on "cooperation," Tehran Times daily reported on Thursday.
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