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- Nepal (712)
- Pakistan (3,592)
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- Thailand (1,124)
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NATO chief sounds alarm over Russian buildup
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attends a press conference after the NATO military demonstration in Zaragoza, Spain, Wednesday. (AP/Abraham Caro Marin)NATO’s secretary-general sounded the alarm Thursday over the build-up of Russian military forces from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean and called on the US-led alliance to come up...
Ukraine Must Reform to Get EU Visa-Free Travel, Says Juncker
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Putin, Merkel edge Obama to new low in power ranking
Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first sitting US president to slide out of the top two power rankings as published by Forbes, beaten not just by Vladimir Putin but also Angela Merkel. The magazine published its seventh annual ranking just weeks after Putin opened a new front in the Syria war by conducting air strikes, then Putin hosted...
OSCE monitoring: No violation of cease-fire regime reported
On November 5, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the eastern direction of the Talish village of the NKR Martakert region. From the positions of the...
Ukraine’s rebel center in limbo as fighting dies down
DONETSK:The fighting has subsided, but Donetsk is quickly sinking into the past — a shabby Soviet-like state of empty streets and deprivation. Huge portraits of Josef Stalin hanging in the city center only reinforce the impression of failure. The wounds are raw in the capital of eastern Ukraine’s pro-Russia insurgency and its prognosis not...
Former Georgia Education Minister to head National Police of Ukraine
The Ukrainian government has chosen the head of the National police of Ukraine, created by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in early September. The Department has been headed by Advisor to the Deputy head of the Ministry of internal Affairs Khatia Dekanoidze, who previously held the post of Minister of education of Georgia, reports UNN....
Putin emerged world’s most powerful person on Forbes’ annual ranking 2015
The World’s Most Powerful People 2015 on Forbes’ annual ranking shows Vladimir Putin as the world’s most powerful person for the third year running. According to the report, Putin continues to prove he’s one of the few men in the world powerful enough to do what he wants –and get away with it. “International sanctions set...
Monitoring in the eastern direction of the Talish village
On November 5, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the eastern direction of the Talish village of the NKR Martakert region. From the positions of the...
No violation of the cease-fire regime was registered
On November 5, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the eastern direction of the Talish village of the NKR Martakert region. From the positions of the...
Plane that crashed in South Sudan was in no state to fly
The decades-old Antonov plane that crashed yesterday in South Sudan, killing at least 36 people, “was is no state to fly”, the Ukraine-based aircraft company said. “The An-12B was is no state to fly because it failed to undergo timely technical servicing… that should have included work on extending its resources and...
