Le Soir reports that a new government will take office today in Belgium. Yves Leterme, a former prime minister and currently minister for foreign affairs, will be appointed as the country's new premier.
The injury-prone Arsenal winger will be hoping for a confidence boost as he is given the chance to get his season up and running... more Mikael Silvestre is ready to ease Arsenal's defensive crisis after an ankle injury to left-back Kieran Gibbs...
A Europe united under the EU and especially NATO is to be strong enough to contain, isolate and increasingly confront Russia as the central component of U.S. plans for control of Eurasia and the world, but cannot be allowed to conduct an independent foreign policy, particularly in regard to Russia and the Middle East. European NATO allies are to assist Washington in preventing the emergence of ...
MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian communist legislator on Tuesday suggested removing the word "God" from the national anthem in order to unite the multiethnic country.
Digest of headline news as of 3:30 p.m. Moscow time on November 23: BUSINESS & FINANCE *** RUSSIA PLANS TO PRIVATIZE STAKES IN TGK-5, SOVCOMFLOT, SG-TRANS IN 2010 The Russian government targets 77 billion rubles in revenue from privatization in 2010, a source in the government told journalists on Monday.
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Slightly fewer people in Russia are now willing to vote for the governing party but other groups have only marginal support, according to a poll by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center. 53 per cent of respondents would vote for United Russia (YR) in the next election to the State Duma, down three points since October.
MINSK - Scorned as Europe's last dictatorship, ranked dismally by rating agencies and possessing few natural resources, Belarus has struggled to attract foreign investors. Read more...
Scorned as Europe's last dictatorship, ranked dismally by rating agencies and possessing few natural resources, Belarus has struggled to attract foreign investors.
KIEV, UKRAINE -- One night at the height of the panic over what people here call the California flu, as 24-hour news stations tracked a rising death toll and politicians speculated about a mystery lung plague, Ukraine's prime minister rushed to the airport to greet a shipment of Tamiflu as if it...
