Sarkozy and Merkel call on eurozone to tighten purse strings
Eurozone leaders gather on Friday for a key economic summit, amid fears that the single European currency may collapse. Greece will dominate the agenda, but France and Germany's leaders say there is much more at stake.
Ukraine To 'balance Relations' With Strategic Partners In East And The West
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said his government is interested to pursue a foreign policy that will balance relations with its strategic partners, both in the East and the West.
Voting Underway In UK As New Poll Suggests Hung Parliament Outcome
Millions of voters across the United Kingdom are today having their say on who they think should lead the country.
Energy's New 'Great Game'
Countries around the globe are racing to lock down energy supplies to ensure economic security. The geopolitical implications are huge
Time for a nuclear samba
Brazil has advanced a proposal to unblock the Iranian nuclear dossier that is in fact the common view among the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), the emerging geopolitical counter-power to United States hegemony.
UK election: Best bet is that history will be made
There's only one good bet in Britain's razor-edge election: It's likely to reshape the country's politics in historic ways
Kyrgyzstan investigating firms that sold fuel supplied to U.S. air base
Kyrgyzstan's interim government has begun a criminal investigation of local companies -- allegedly controlled by the son of ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev -- that were sources of fuel supplied to a key U.S. air base in the Central Asian country.
Russia's overtures to Ukraine come while EU is preoccupied
Russia's proposal to combine its gas export monopoly Gazprom with the Ukrainian state energy company was part of a strategy to lock in assets while Europe focused on Greece, Alexander Rahr, a Russia expert at the German council on foreign relations, said on Tuesday.
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