ANKARA, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli on Saturday called for early elections in the country to overcome the current deadlock. Bahceli said during a MHP meeting that the reason behind the...
BEIRUT, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The Lebanese Hezbollah militant group categorically denied on Saturday reports of its members being taken prisoners by armed militants in Syria. In a statement by its media department, Hezbollah said not a single combatant...
ANKARA, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Turkish police used tear gas to disperse about 5,000 anti-government protesters in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Saturday night as the nationwide protests entered the 12th day, witnesses said. The witnesses said the Turk...
MOSCOW, June 8 (Xinhua) -- President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that permits tests on students to see if they have consumed drugs or psychotropic substances, the Kremlin website said Saturday. Students at secondary schools, colleges and universi...
STOCKHOLM, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Swedish Princess Madeleine tied the knot with U.S. banker Christopher O'Neill on Saturday in central Stockholm. Royals, business tycoons and celebrities attended the wedding ceremony in the Royal Chapel at the Royal Pala...
MOSCOW, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Early elections of the Moscow mayor will be held on Sept. 8, the City Duma said Friday. This will be the first time in a decade that Moscovites could choose their mayor by a popular vote. So far, the mayor was appointed by...
KIEV, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The Ukrainian National Bank (NBU) decided on Friday to reduce the key interest rate by 0.5 percentage point to 7.0 percent starting from June 10, the bank's press service said. This is the first time for the central bank to c...
MOSCOW, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Russia is ready to replace the Austrian peacekeepers who are about to leave the Golan Heights, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. Given the complicated situation in the Golan Heights, we'd be able to replace the Austrian...
TUNIS, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Germany is closely following the drafting of Tunisia's new constitution, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday following a meeting with Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh in Berlin. Laarayedh is currently in Germany...
SEOUL, June 6 (Xinhua) -- South Korea said Thursday it wants to hold a ministerial-level dialogue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on June 12 in Seoul in response to DPRK's proposal to hold official talks on reopening a joint ind...
WELLINGTON, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida will discuss bilateral cooperation in trade and regional issues when he visits New Zealand this weekend, New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said Friday. Kishida's...
缅甸众议院议长将访问美国 YANGON, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Speaker for Myanmar's House of Representative (Lower House) U Shwe Mann will lead a parliamentary delegation to pay a goodwill visit to the United States soon, said the local Union Daily...
曼谷将通过高速列车与中国联系起来 BANGKOK, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Thailand will be connected with China via a high-speed railway running through northern Laos within the next seven years, assured Thai Transport Minister Chadchart Sittipunt...
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, June 6 (Xinhua) -- A suicide car bomb went off near a NATO base in Naw Zad district in southern Afghan province of Helmand on Thursday evening, causing casualties, said an official. A militant rammed his explosive-laden vehi...
Pyongyang, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday proposed holding working-level contacts with South Korea in Kaesong on Sunday, the official KCNA news agency reported. The proposal announced by a spokesman of t...
