11:43 18/03/2010

Estonia’s President to attend celebrations of Soviet victory 65th anniversary

President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves will attend celebrations of the 65 th   anniversary of the in the WWII in Moscow, a spokesman for his administration said on Wednesday.   “I will be in Moscow on 9 May to join other European leaders in commemorative events”, said Ilves.   Five years ago the then Estonia President Arnold Ruutel declined an invitation to attend the Victory Day ceremonies in Moscow. 

10:45 18/03/2010

Playboy clips played on children’s channels

TV bosses in the US have apologised after preview clips of the Playboy channel were accidentally played out on two children's channels.   A Time Warner Cable (TWC) spokesman said a "technical glitch" was to blame for the mistake, which lasted two hours in parts of North Carolina on Tuesday.   The company was made aware of the error after parents called in to report it. TWC said it had procedures in place to catch errors, but it was not picked up as ...

08:58 18/03/2010

4 militants killed in Chechnya

  Russian police killed four militants in the troubled southern republic of Chechnya, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday, citing Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. A group of militants were trapped as police conducted an operation in a mountainous. The gunmen put up armed resistance and four of them were gunned down, he said.

08:55 18/03/2010

Nigeria’s President to dissolve Government

  Nigeria ’s acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, last night sacked all cabinet ministers in an attempt to stamp his authority on Africa's most populous country.   Jonathan dissolved the cabinet without explanation in his first major act since assuming executive powers just over a month ago. It effectively left the quiet 52-year-old biologist in sole command of government.

12:12 17/03/2010

US special envoy George Mitchell put his visit to region off

U.S. special envoy for Middle East peace George Mitchell has put off plans to visit the region this week, the State Department said on Tuesday. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Mitchell will meet Israeli and Palestinian officials "as soon as possible," but not before a gathering of the quartet of Middle East peace mediators in Moscow on Thursday and Friday as he had planned. 

11:32 17/03/2010

Turkish Ambassador to Stockholm to assume his office again

  Turkish Zaman referring to its anonymous diplomatic sources reports that Ankara is determined to send back his Ambassador to Sweden soon. It’s said that Swedish Ambassador to Turkey has supported it as Swedish Government declared about its concerns unwilling to obstruct communication with Turkey. Swedish PM announced that St0ckholm is ready to support Turkey’s membership to the European Union. 

10:48 17/03/2010

David Petraeus said Iran would not develop nuclear weapon

  Gen. David Petraeus said Tuesday that Iran would not develop a nuclear weapon this year, but that the country still remained the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East and Central Asia. Asked by Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, how much time was available before Iran was able to build a nuclear weapon, General Petraeus replied, “It has, thankfully, slid to the right a bit, and it is not this calendar year, I don’t think.” ...

10:45 16/03/2010

19 mafia suspects arrested by Italian police

Italian police on Monday arrested 19 mafia suspects in Sicily, including Salvatore Messina Denaro the brother of the Cosa Nostra's alleged "boss of bosses", Matteo Messina Denaro. More than 200 police were deployed in morning raids in and around the western Sicilian town of Trapani in what officials said was an operation targeting some of the closest associates of Matteo Messina Denaro, who is a fugitive. 

10:38 16/03/2010

Shakespeare's lost play 'found' after 250 years

An 18th-century drama attributed to the Bard but dismissed as a hoax, truly is his work, according to an expert in the literature of the time. Double Falsehood, published by Lewis Theobald in 1728, is a version of Shakespeare's long-lost play Cardenio, he believes. The original was a collaboration between Shakespeare and John Fletcher, his successor as house playwright to the King's Men company. It was performed twice in 1613 but never made it into print and was lost to ...

10:26 16/03/2010

Palestine won’t have negotiations with Israel

  A senior Palestinian official Monday announced that there will be no peace negotiations with Israel amid the continuation of Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.   Last week, an Israeli Interior Ministry committee announced its approval for a project to build 1,600 new housing units in a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem, just as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was in Israel for peace-making efforts. Meanwhile, Abed Rabbo stressed that the ...

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