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AFRICA: Economic growth is strong but constrained
Africa's enhanced growth performance, fuelled mainly by high commodity prices, is set to continue.
AfricaIRAN/UN: Nuclear offers unlikely to break deadlock
Washington yesterday rejected the notion that the incentives on offer to Iran to suspend its...
IranLATIN AMERICA: FDI reached record levels in 2007
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region rose by 46% year-on-year in 2007, exceeding 100...
Latin AmericaIRAN/UN/IRAQ: Tehran defiant on Iraq, nuclear offer
The Permanent Five plus Germany will shortly present Iran with a revised package of incentives to...
IranSERBIA/KOSOVO: Prosecutor ups pressure to cooperate
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Serge...
SerbiaSERBIA/EU: EU pact will fail to bring stability
Serbia signed its own Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU yesterday.
SerbiaIRAN: Majlis run-offs extend conservative dominance
A senior IAEA official is returning to Iran today to continue talks on intelligence-based...
IranUS/MIDDLE EAST: Bush seeks to bolster Abbas, talks
President George Bush meets Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today in an...
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