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Serbian minister warns economic development concept must change.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Serbian newspaper Politika website on 28 December [Interview with Rasim Ljajic, minister of labour and social policy, by B. Bakovic; place and date not given: "People Will Punish Those in Power"] We must now begin, in...

Iraq's parliament speaker reiterates support for Iraqi Christians.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by privately-owned Aswat al-Iraq news agency website ["Iraq's Parliament Speaker Reiterates Support for Iraqi Christians:" - Aswat al-Iraq] NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi Parliament's Speaker, Usama al-Nujeifi,...

Pakistan police avert 290 terror threats in 2010 in Islamabad.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by official news agency Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) Islamabad, 30 December: In a bid to exterminate the scourge of terrorism from the ICT - the Islamabad Capital Territory - police has successfully apprehended 120...

Serbian minister says president's 2015 deadline for regionalization too late.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Serbian newspaper Danas website on 27 December [Interview with URS Chairman Mladjan Dinkic by Nikola Tomic; place and date not given: "I Promised 1,000 Euros Because of Tadic"] Belgrade - "It is too late for...

Iran paper criticizes BBC Persian report on its anniversary.
December 30, 2010... Text of report headlined "When BBC praises itself!" published by Iranian newspaper Iran on 29 December We have heard that the official website of "BBC Persian", on the occasion of its 70th anniversary of the network in an article with an...

Taleban sentence thieves to lashes in Afghan east.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Afghan Taleban Voice of Jihad website on 30 December [Taleban spokesman] Zabihollah Mojahed: Three thieves were today punished by the mojahedin for stealing in Moqor District of Ghazni Province. According to a report from...

Taleban claim killing two US soldiers in Afghan east.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Afghan Taleban Voice of Jihad website on 30 December [Taleban spokesman] Zabihollah Mojahed: According to a report from Khost Province, the mojahedin of the Islamic Emirate, using light and heavy weapons, have carried out an...

Taleban report attack on government forces in Afghan east.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Afghan Taleban Voice of Jihad website on 30 December [Taleban spokesman] Zabihollah Mojahed: According to a report from Charkh District of Logar Province, heavy fighting has taken place between the mojahedin and the...

Military attaches send new year greetings to North Korean leader.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by state-run North Korean news agency KCNA website Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) - Leader Kim Jong Il [Kim Cho'ng-il] received a floral basket and a congratulatory letter from the military attaches corps here on the...

Russia: Ingush leadership discusses security ahead of New Year holiday.
December 30, 2010... Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has chaired a joint session of the antiterrorism commission and operational headquarters of the republic to discuss security and safety during the New Year holiday, the official website of the Ingush leader and...

Foreign officials pay congratulatory visits to North Korean embassies.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by state-run North Korean news agency KCNA website Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) - Elena Scherbakova, director of the State Academic Igor Moiseyev Dance Company of Russia, and leading members of the company visited...

Uzbek defence committee holds anti-terrorism conference.(Conference news)
December 30, 2010... Excerpt from report by Uzbek parliament newspaper, Xalq Sozi newspaper on 30 December The defence and security committee of the Uzbek Supreme Assembly's Senate [parliament's upper house] has organized a conference entitled "Topical issues of...

Pakistan: Swat Taleban warn people against spying for security forces.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by staff correspondent headlined "Swat TTP warns pro-government people" published by Pakistani newspaper The News website on 30 December Mingora: The Swat Taleban through posters Wednesday [29 December] warned the...

Ukrainian prosecutors say cases against ex-officials not politically motivated.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Interfax-Ukraine news agency Kiev, 30 December: The Prosecutor-General's Office of Ukraine has insisted that the criminal cases against [former] senior officials, as well as the detentions or arrests of some of them, are not...

Iranian leader says people foiled "enemy plots".
December 30, 2010... Iranian Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene'i has said that people of Iran have many times thwarted plots hatched by the country's enemies. Addressing a group of people from the northern province of Gilan who had come to Tehran to meet him on 29...

Ex-Pakistan president denies role in former PM's murder.
December 30, 2010... Text of report headlined "Musharraf refuses to appear before Benazir's murder probe commission" published by Daily Times website on 30 December Lahore, 30 December: Former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf has refused to appear before...

Beijing lawyers bear brunt of state curbs - paper.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 30 December [Report by Ng Tze-Wei: "Beijing Lawyers Bear Brunt of State Curbs"] Regulation after regulation has been introduced this year targeting lawyers,...

China to improve system to disclose government, party affairs - official.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) - China will improve the disclosing of government, party affairs through the spokesperson system, said Wang Chen, head of...

North Korean envoy to Ethiopia presents credentials.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by state-run North Korean news agency KCNA website Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) - Girma Wolde-Giorgis, president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, received credentials from Kim Hyok Chol, DPRK...

Police seize 75 kilos of hashish in northwestern Turkey.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by Turkish semi-official news agency Anatolia Bursa, 30 December: Turkish police confiscated 75 kilograms of hashish in the northwestern province of Bursa on Thursday [30 December]. Acting on a tip-off, police...

Yukos verdict condemns Russian justice - rights advocate Ponomarev.
December 30, 2010... Excerpt from report by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti Moscow, 30 December: Head of the movement For Human Rights Lev Ponomarev has said that the judge's decision on the case of [former Yukos oil Mikhail] Khodorkovskiy is "a verdict to...

Serbian police search home of Hague fugitive Hadzic's aide.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by Serbian pro-western Belgrade-based Radio B92 website, on 30 December Novi Sad: The police searched the house of [former Croatian Serb leader] Hague indictee Goran Hadzic's friend in Novi Sad this morning. The...

Ukrainian court extends arrest of former deputy minister.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by commercial, news-based 5 Kanal TV on 30 December The Kiev Pecherskyy district court has ruled in favour of the Prosecutor-General's Office in its request that [former First Deputy Justice Minister] Yevhen Korniychuk be...

Police seize 250 kilos of hashish in southern Turkey.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by Turkish semi-official news agency Anatolia Aksaray, 30 December: Security forces impounded 250 kg of hashish in southern Turkey. Acting on a tip-off, security forces stopped and searched a minibus in the...

Bosnian SDP to boycott January party meeting on government formation.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Bosnia-Hercegovina public BH Radio 1, on 30 December The SDP [Social Democratic Party] of Bosnia-Hercegovina will not accept an invitation by six parties - the SNSD [main Bosnian Serb party], the HDZ B-H [strongest Bosnian...

Over 66 per cent of Beijingers use internet.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) - The number of Internet users in the Chinese capital surpassed 11.6 million by the end of 2010, accounting for 66.1 per cent...

Russia: Civil suits in former Yukos boss trial to be examined separately.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow, 30 December: The [Khamovnichevskiy] court has decided not to consider civil suits filed against former Yukos oil company boss Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and former head of the MFO...

Top officials of Sudan's SPLM reportedly resign from party.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by state-owned Sudanese news agency Suna website Khartoum, 29 December: A number of the leaderships of Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), north Kurdufan sector, announced their split from the movement. The...

One killed in scuffle involving Singapore firm in East China.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) JINAN, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) - At least one villager was killed and six others injured in a scuffle with builders from a Singapore-invested dairy farm project...

China: Hu Jintao urges implementing plenum spirit at politburo study session.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["Hu Jintao, at CCP Central Committee Political Bureaus 25th Collective Study Session, Emphasizes Need To Embrace Main Theme, Grasp Key Link, Carry Out Reform and...

Moscow mayor promises "robust" response to unauthorized rallies.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 30 December: Attempts to hold unauthorized political events in the capital during the holiday period will be robustly broken up, Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on...

Uzbekistan sets higher price for gas to Kyrgyzstan in 2011.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by privately-owned Kyrgyz news agency 24.kg website Uzbekistan has set the price for gas supplies to Kyrgyzstan in 2011 at 255 dollars per 1,000 cu.m., sources in the Kyrgyz Ministry of Energy told the 24.kg news agency today....

Chinese ambassador gives reception on new year.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by state-run North Korean news agency KCNA website Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) - Liu Hongcai, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, gave a reception at Yanggakdo International Hotel on Thursday on the occasion of the New...

US fatalities in Iraq down in 2010.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by privately-owned Aswat al-Iraq news agency website ["Lowest Number of US Fatalities in 2010" - Aswat al-Iraq] BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A total of 60 US soldiers were killed in Iraq in 2010, the lowest number of...

Russia said willing to receive Japanese foreign minister in Feb 2011.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo Moscow, Dec. 30 Kyodo - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin said Thursday that Russia is willing to receive Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara in Moscow in...

Former Russian oil tycoon jailed for thirteen and a half years.
December 30, 2010... Mikhail Khodorkovskiy, former Yukos oil company owner, has been jailed for thirteen and a half years, Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported. Source: ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow, in Russian 1302 gmt 30 Dec 10 BBC Monitoring

Iran paper urges quality goods, services after subsidy reforms.
December 30, 2010... Text of editorial by Mehdi Abbasi headlined "Incompatibility between reduced quality and increased prices" published by Iranian newspaper Mardom-Salari website on 27 December The final stage of the Targeted Subsidy Plan was ultimately...

Iran paper suggests price control removal for successful subsidy reform.
December 30, 2010... Text of editorial headlined "True freeing of prices, condition for success of subsidy reform project" published by Iranian newspaper Jomhuri-ye Eslami website on 27 December In the Name of God the Merciful and the Compassionate The...

Scholar urges China to manipulate military power to prevent inter-Korean war.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po website on 29 December [By reporter Liu Ning-che in Beijing: "A War Below the Moderate Level Is Inevitable and China Should Cope Accordingly"] In response to the marshalling of the battle...

Cambodia to host 32nd ASEAN inter-parliamentary assembly conference Sep 2011.(Conference news)
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by Cambodian state news agency AKP email service [AKP article in Khmer by PAL Song, article in English by SOKMOM Nimul: "Cambodia To Host 32nd AIPA in September 2011." AKP headline.] Phnom Penh, December 30, 2010...

Cambodian PM gives order "to uproot drug traffickers".
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by Cambodian state news agency AKP email service [AKP article by KHAN Sophirom: "PM Orders to Uproot Drug Traffickers." AKP headline.] Phnom Penh, December 30, 2010 AKP - Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka...

China opens Kashgar-Hotan railway in Xinjiang.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["Railway Linking Major Silk Road Towns Opens in NW China"] URUMQI, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -A railway linking Kashi and Hotan in northwest China's Xinjiang...

Analysts doubt ethnic Albanian party can attract Macedonian votes.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Macedonian newspaper Nova Makedonija on 29 December [Report by "S.S.Z.": "Ahmeti To Fish for Votes in Strumica in Vain"] DUI [Democratic Union for Integration, BDI in Albanian] leader Ali Ahmeti will fail if he seeks to...

Top Russian rights activist condemns "disgraceful" Yukos sentence.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 30 December: Lyudmila Alekseyeva, head of Russia's oldest independent human rights organization, the Moscow Helsinki Group, has described the sentence handed down to...

Tajik religious body bans activities of synagogue in country.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by state-run Iranian radio external service from Mashhad on 29 December The chairman of the committee for religious affairs under the Tajik government said that in line with the constitution activities of nine non-Islamic...

Former Russian oil tycoon, his associate jailed for 14 years in total.
December 30, 2010... Excerpt from report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 30 December: Moscow's Khamovnicheskiy Court has sentenced former head of the Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and former head of the MFO Menatep [financial...

Russia: Dagestani rebels reportedly launch new "official" website.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Chechen rebel internet news agency Kavkaz-Tsentr 30 December: The website www.vdagestan.com has been granted a status of the official website of the province of Dagestan [of the jihadist Caucasus emirate], the...

Austria praised for focussing on human rights during UNSC membership.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Austrian newspaper Der Standard on 28 December Austria's third membership in the UN Security Council ends in the same way it started: with a crisis. In January 2009, the UN supreme body met for emergency sessions to discuss...

Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Al-Hindi interviewed on Gaza war anniversary.
December 30, 2010... Qatari government-funded, pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera satellite TV at 1334 gmt on 27 December carries in its daily "The Midday Guest" talk show programme a live interview with Dr Muhammad al-Hindi, leading figure in the Palestinian Islamic...

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood website reports on "year of torture in Alexandria".
December 30, 2010... Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood website Amlalommah, on 30 December 2010, carries a 500-word exclusive dispatch by Amal al-Ummah entitled: "a jurist report says that 2010 was the year of torture in Alexandria." The report says that the Nassar...

Ukraine's only submarine undergoes mooring trials in Sevastopol.
December 30, 2010... Ukraine's only submarine, the Zaporizya, is undergoing mooring trials in Sevastopol, a representative of the Crimean regional media centre of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry, Volodymyr Bova, told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on 27 December....

Russian party head urges Medvedev to intervene after tycoon gets second sentence.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 30 December: Yabloko party leader Sergey Mitrokhin thinks the verdict handed down to [former oil tycoon] Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and [his business associate] Platon Lebedev...

Somalia's Al-Shabab announces plans to form Islamic state.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Somali independent Radio Gaalkacyo on 30 December Officials of Al-Shabab Islamic Movement have for the first time announced that plans to form an Islamic state is under way adding that it will be declared soon. Head of...

Ex-Yukos boss sentence unlawful - Russian opposition leader Nemtsov.
December 30, 2010... Excerpt from report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 30 December: The co-chairman of the Solidarnost [Solidarity] opposition movement and the People's Freedom party Boris Nemtsov has said that the sentence to [former...

Tunisian president appoints new governors.
December 30, 2010... Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has appointed new governors in a number of provinces, including Sidi Bouzid, reported Tunisian TV in its 1300 gmt news bulletin. Source: Tunisian TV - Channel 7, Tunis, in Arabic 1300 gmt 30 Dec 10...

Former Russian oil tycoon, associate now due for release in 2017.
December 30, 2010... The sentence handed down by a Moscow court to former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and his business associate Platon Lebedev will be calculated from 2003, Russian news agency Interfax reported on 30 December. After convicting the...

WFP reportedly distributes food to displaced in central Somalia.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by privately-owned Somali Radio Simba on 30 December WFP has reportedly distributed food aid in Dhuso Mareb District of Galgadud Region, central Somalia. WFP has donated ration comprising of maize, beans and porridge to the...

Israeli president meets Church leaders, urges religious tolerance.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by privately-owned Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post website on 30 December [Report by Greer Fay Cashman: "Christian leaders dismayed by anti-Gentile attitudes"] Church leaders in Israel and other parts of the Holy...

Egyptian jurists call for release of detained Palestinians.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood website Amlalommah on 30 December [Unattributed report: "demands made for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Egypt."] Egyptian jurist organizations have issued a joint statement demanding...

Northwest Pakistan province chief says no plans to amend blasphemy law.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by official news agency Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) Peshawar, 30 December: Chief Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has categorically said that the government has no plan to make any changes in the...

Russia: Former Ingush official criticizes resettlement plan.
December 30, 2010... Lawyer Musa Pliyev, former adviser to Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, has said proper safety guarantees have not been provided for several dozen natives of Dagestan and Ingushetia set to be resettled in Russia's Penza Region for employment,...

Presidential aide accuses UN missions of "instigating" disputes in Sudan.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by state-owned Sudanese news agency Suna website Khartoum, 29 December: The assistant of the president of the republic, Dr Nafi Ali Nafi said that the UN missions have major role in instigating disputes in Sudan. ...

Saudi women's shelter turns away woman who refused to give salary to husband.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by Saudi newspaper Arab News website on 30 December [Report by Rima al-Mukhtar: "Shelter refuses to accommodate woman booted out by husband"] JEDDA: A Saudi woman who claims her husband threw her out of the family...

Organizer of attack on Iraqi emergency battalion arrested.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by privately-owned Aswat al-Iraq news agency website ["Organizer of Attack on Ninewa's Emergency Battalion Arrested:" - Aswat al-Iraq] NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: The Organizer of the suicide attack that killed the...

Sudan, UN to cooperate in delivering aid to displaced in Darfur.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by state-owned Sudanese news agency Suna website Al-Fashir, 29 December: The joint UN and AU Mission for Darfur (UNAMID) announced that it will continue to cooperate with the local security officials of north and...

Austria to close some embassies in order to save money - daily.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung on 24 December [Report by Wolfgang Tucek: "Need to save puts an end to embassies"] Brussels/Vienna - In a little over a week the "European Foreign Service" (EEAS [European External Action...

China pours 2.4bn dollars into rural radio, TV services 2006-2010.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["China Pours 16 Bln Yuan Into Rural Radio, TV Services From 2006 To 2010"] BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) - China' s central and local governments poured...

Allawi, Al-Maliki Yet to Agree on Iraqi Security Portfolios
December 30, 2010... Text of report by London-based newspaper Al-Hayat website on 28 December [Report by Uday Hatim: "Baghdad: Talks Over Security Ministries Postponed Until After New Year Holiday"] Talks between the two largest parliamentary blocs in Iraq...

Ethiopia opposition website editor blasts "rogue" Eritrean colonel.
December 30, 2010... Text of press release issued in English by the editor of Ethiopian opposition website Ethiopian Review, Elias Kifle, on 29 December; subheadings inserted editorially Some Eritrean friends are asking me why it is necessary for Ethiopian Review...

Paper criticizes reformists' view on Iranian political system.
December 30, 2010... Text of report headlined "New self-revelation by escaped reformist theoretician" published by Iranian newspaper Javan on 27 December Rational behaviour of the public is the strongest criterion for determining the truth and lies. In the...

Bosnian SDP condemns media allegations about TV editor.
December 30, 2010... Excerpt from report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA Sarajevo, 30 Dec: The SDP B-H [Social Democratic Party of Bosnia-Hercegovina] has today condemned media accusations made against the editor of the [Federation TV] political magazine 60...

Montenegrin president defends independence of judiciary.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by Montenegrin TV on 29 December [Announcer] This morning's debate in parliament was marked by a verbal duel between an SNP [opposition Socialist People's Party] deputy and Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic. [Predrag]...

Azeri ruling party official hails appointment of US envoy.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by private Azerbaijani news agency APA 30 December: "The appointment of Matthew Bryza as ambassador to Azerbaijan is a step to further develop relations between Azerbaijan and the USA," the executive secretary of the NAP [the...

Russian judge approves estimates of damage from Yukos defendants.
December 30, 2010... Excerpt from report by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow, 30 December: The estimates made by the prosecution of the damage done by former Yukos oil company head Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and former Menatep group head Platon Lebedev are...

Underground church in China's Guangzhou continues to be popular.
December 30, 2010... Respected, independent Hong Kong daily Ming Pao carries on 25 December a report by a staff reporter who interviews Lin Xiangao, a priest of an underground Protestant church in Guangzhou. According to the report, although members of the...

Chinese TV discusses prospect for end of Korean crisis through talks.
December 30, 2010... The 29 December 2010 edition of "Focus Today" [Jin Ri Guan Zhu], a 30-minute current affairs programme broadcast daily at 2130-2200 local time [ 1330-1400 gmt] on China Central Television's international channel CCTV-4 in Mandarin, features a...

Pakistan Army kills 20 militants in tribal agency.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by official news agency Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) Peshawar, 30 December: Helicopter gunship on Thursday [30 December] pounded a militant hideout in central Kurram agency, killing at least 20 insurgents and injuring 25...

One of Russia's rival Muslim bodies appoints mufti for Moscow.
December 30, 2010... Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 30 December: The head of the Central Spiritual Board of Muslims of Russia [CSBM] Talgat Tadzhuddin has issued a decree appointing the chairman of the Spiritual Board of...

Iran top council discusses proposed education policy reforms.
December 30, 2010... Text of report headlined "Expediency Council continues reviewing changes in educational system" published by Iranian newspaper Jomhuri-ye Eslami website 26 December Yesterday [25 December], the Expediency Council held its meeting with the...

Russian commentary sees end of "empire", urges people not to keep silent.
December 30, 2010... Excerpt from report by anti-Kremlin Russian current affairs website Yezhednevnyy Zhurnal on 20 December [Commentary by Georgiy Satarov, under the rubric "In the Opposition": "Now It Is Just Us"] From childhood I dreamed that Mikhail...

Afghan president "welcomes" Taleban demand for Turkey office - Iran paper.
December 30, 2010... Text of report headlined "Negotiations with Taleban reach Turkey" published by Iranian newspaper Siyasat-e Ruz website on 26 December As part of continued efforts by the Afghan government to create stability in the country, Turkey and...

Weekly says Ukraine's defence industry in dire straits.
December 30, 2010... Valentyn Badrak says that Ukraine's defence industry is in ruin. He quotes an open letter to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov by Volodymyr Hrek, the head of the association of defence industry manufacturers, The letter says that the state budget...

Gunman arrested in Iraq's Mosul.
December 30, 2010... Text of report in English by privately-owned Aswat al-Iraq news agency website ["Suicide Gunman Arrested in Mosul" - Aswat al-Iraq] NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces arrested on Thursday the gunman who planned the attack on commander...

Egypt denies Iranian delegation, Jordanian activists entry to Gaza - TV.
December 30, 2010... At 1252 gmt, pro-Hamas, Gaza-based Al-Aqsa Satellite TV was observed to post the following "urgent" caption: "Our correspondent: Egyptian authorities deny entry [to Gaza Strip] to 20-member Iranian delegation and some of the Jordanian...