European stocks mostly rose Thursday, though winnings were less strong than in Asia and overnight on Wall Street, where gains were extended on hopes of another US interest rate cut to bolster the economy.
Pervez Musharraf embarked on a new, five-year term as a civilian president Thursday, a day after ceding the powerful post of army chief - the basis of his rule for the past eight years.
The OSCE gathers in Madrid Thursday for its annual meeting which will focus on Kazakhstan`s bid to chair the security watchdog and Russia`s threat to pull out of a key arms control pact.
Poland will drop its opposition to Moscow`s bid to join the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in a drive to improve ties with Russia, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced Tuesday.
Oil prices fell Tuesday on growing expectations that OPEC ministers will agree to raise crude production during a meeting next week.
Serbia and Russia are pressing for more time to settle the future of Kosovo and head off a declaration of independence at the start of crunch talks on Monday that offered no hope of compromise.
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators worked through the night to narrow differences ahead of a Middle East peace conference on Tuesday which President George W. Bush warned would need "difficult compromises".
Russia`s foreign minister sharply criticized U.S. proposals for cooperation on missile defense in Europe after a meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
A suicide car bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul killed two civilians on Tuesday, a senior police official said.
Youths assaulted a police station, torched cars and vandalized stores in a weekend rampage that injured 21 police officers in this rundown Paris suburb.
Former premier Nawaz Sharif applied to stand in Pakistan`s general elections Monday and vowed that he would never work in government under President Pervez Musharraf.
President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused the United States of attempting to "discredit" Russia`s upcoming parliamentary elections, claiming Washington had pressured international monitors to boycott the polls.
Russia should explain the weekend beating and detention of people protesting against President Vladimir Putin, including former chess champion and opposition leader Garry Kasparov, France`s foreign minister said on Monday.
Russia`s foreign minister accused Western countries on Monday of fueling Kosovo`s drive for independence by neglecting Pristina`s violations of a United Nations resolution.
Russia will start supplies of up to 5 million metric tons (36.7 million barrels) of oil per year to China via Kazakhstan from 2008, the industry and energy minister said on Monday.
Twin suicide car bomb attacks killed 15 people in the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi on Saturday, the military said, the eve of the return of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from exile in Saudi Arabia.
Poland`s new prime minister said on Saturday he might visit Moscow in the foreseeable future.
Conservative Prime Minister John Howard suffered a humiliating defeat Saturday at the hands of the left-leaning opposition, whose leader has promised to immediately sign the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and withdraw Australia`s combat troops from Iraq.
The first cruise ship built to ply the frigid waters off Antarctica became the first to sink there Friday. The red-hulled Explorer struck ice, taking on water as 154 passengers and crew members scrambled to safety aboard lifeboats and rafts. The ship later went to the bottom.
European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet said Friday he did not welcome "brutal" exchange rate movements, a few hours after the euro hit another record high against the dollar.
U.S. proposals aimed at easing Russian concerns over a planned missile defence shield fall short of Moscow`s expectations, local media quoted a Russian Foreign Ministry source as saying on Friday.
A bomb hidden in a box of birds killed 13 people and wounded 57 at a popular pet market in central Baghdad on Friday, police and witnesses said, describing the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in two months.
Russia and Turkmenistan will soon sign a final agreement on a new natural gas pipeline, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Friday, ending months of uncertainty surrounding the project.
Nearly simultaneous explosions from homemade bombs planted outside courts in three northern Indian cities killed at least 13 people in what a senior government official said were terrorist strikes.
Russia`s upper house of parliament ratified an agreement on Friday on the restructuring of Cuba`s $166 million post-Soviet debt to Russia.