United Nations

  • Jul 12, 2007
  • 7 min read

INTERNATIONAL: Biofuel effect on farm prices limited

The OECD and UN Food and Agriculture Organization last week released their annual Agricultural...

International
  • Jul 12, 2007
  • 2 min read

UN/SERBIA: West drops independence from Kosovo draft

Moscow will need time to study the latest "voluminous" draft UN resolution on Kosovo's future, a...

Serbia
  • Jul 11, 2007
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INTERNATIONAL: Urban growth requires renewed thinking

Almost half the world's population lives in cities. The proportion is going to grow sharply over...

International
  • Jul 2, 2007
  • 7 min read

CIS/RUSSIA: Moscow will oppose GUAM revival

GUAM remains in its infancy: cooperation is loose and ill-defined, and institutions have yet to...

Cis
  • Jul 2, 2007
  • 2 min read

IRAN/UN: Nuclear initiatives seek to break impasse

The senior Iranian leadership is aware of the destabilising activities of the Qods Force (the...

Iran
  • Jun 28, 2007
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RUSSIA/CIS/IRAN: Politics complicate Caspian talks

The legal status of the Caspian Sea plays a key role in enabling or preventing the construction...

Russia
  • Jun 27, 2007
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IRAN: Sudden fuel rationing sparks protests

Tehran has introduced petrol rationing with effect from midnight last night.

Iran
  • Jun 25, 2007
  • 2 min read

LEBANON: Bomb kills five UNIFIL peacekeepers

Three Colombian and two Spanish peacekeepers in the UNIFIL contingent in south Lebanon were...

Lebanon