United Nations
INTERNATIONAL: Biofuel effect on farm prices limited
The OECD and UN Food and Agriculture Organization last week released their annual Agricultural...
InternationalUN/SERBIA: West drops independence from Kosovo draft
Moscow will need time to study the latest "voluminous" draft UN resolution on Kosovo's future, a...
SerbiaINTERNATIONAL: Urban growth requires renewed thinking
Almost half the world's population lives in cities. The proportion is going to grow sharply over...
InternationalCIS/RUSSIA: Moscow will oppose GUAM revival
GUAM remains in its infancy: cooperation is loose and ill-defined, and institutions have yet to...
CisIRAN/UN: Nuclear initiatives seek to break impasse
The senior Iranian leadership is aware of the destabilising activities of the Qods Force (the...
IranRUSSIA/CIS/IRAN: Politics complicate Caspian talks
The legal status of the Caspian Sea plays a key role in enabling or preventing the construction...
RussiaIRAN: Sudden fuel rationing sparks protests
Tehran has introduced petrol rationing with effect from midnight last night.
IranLEBANON: Bomb kills five UNIFIL peacekeepers
Three Colombian and two Spanish peacekeepers in the UNIFIL contingent in south Lebanon were...
Lebanon