DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syrian security forces killed six people on Monday, activists said as a Russian envoy visited Damascus and the EU moved to ban oil imports from the country over its brutal crackdown on protesters.
A child was among five people killed when troops and security forces opened fire during search operations in the Sarmin district of northwestern Idlib province, said the Syria [...]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - (AFP) - The United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations on Tuesday attacked Israel's move to expand a West Bank settlement as a threat to peace efforts.
The new public condemnation of Israel came amid intense efforts by Tony Blair, the diplomatic Quartet's special envoy, to get the Palestinians and Israelis back into direct talks, diplomats reported.
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TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday welcomed Russia's latest proposals for restarting talks on the Islamic republic's controversial atomic programme that were broken off in January.
"Iran welcomes Russia's step-by-step proposal and is ready to make suggestions to cooperate," he said in a meeting with Russia's visiting National Security Council secretary Nikol [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - A senior Russian official, National Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev, arrived on Monday for talks with Iranian officials on the country's nuclear programme, state news agency IRNA reported.
Patrushev is set to hold two meetings with his Iranian counterpart Saeed Jalili and also to meet other officials, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during a two-day [...]
MOSCOW (AFP) - (AFP) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday compared the likely consequences of the Arab Spring to those of the fall of the Berlin Wall as he underlined the necessity of timely reforms to avoid unrest.
Revolts in the Middle East and North Africa "are of a historic character and can pave the way for transformations similar to those taking place in Central Eur [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syrian security forces killed four people on Wednesday, as the West ratcheted up pressure for UN Security Council action against Damascus, with France branding blocking moves by China and Russia as "indecent".
The four were killed in Jebel al-Zawiya region, where the army deployed two weeks ago to crush an anti-government revolt, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of t [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday brushed aside suggestions of a rift among members of the diplomatic Quartet, one day after the group met in Washington but failed to make progress towards Mideast peace talks.
"It was a good meeting," said Lavrov, one of four Quartet members to meet in Washington late Monday, along with UN Secretary Genera [...]
SOCHI, Russia (AFP) - (AFP) - Russia and NATO on Monday failed to narrow their differences over the Western air campaign in Libya, as alliance warplanes stepped up their bombing of regime targets.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused NATO of interpreting a UN resolution in any way it wished, after talks with NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen that showed up differences rathe [...]
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) - (AFP) - Libyan rebels on Sunday rejected an African Union peace plan, saying it would leave Moamer Kadhafi in power, as South Africa's president headed for talks in Russia on the conflict.
Dismissing the AU plan as not meeting even their basic demands, rebel spokesman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga said bluntly: "We have rejected it."
"It did not include the departure of [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran's first nuclear power plant, built by Russia, is to be connected to the national grid in early August, the Iranian ambassador to Moscow, Reza Sajjadi, said in media reports on Sunday.
"Russian officials announced that they are ready to inaugurate the (Bushehr) plant and connect its electricity to the national grid in the first 10 days of August," Sajjadi [...]
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