| March 2010 |
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised on Friday efforts by Russia and the U.S. to agree on a new strategic arms reduction treaty.
The Greek parliament approved on Friday an austerity package of 4.8 billion euros ($6.55 billion) intended to reduce the country's overlarge foreign debt and help overcome escalating economic crisis.
The German state of Hesse is selling 20 bunkers from World War II and the Cold War to the highest bidder, a daily on Friday.
The Russian and Ukrainian presidents did not discuss in Moscow on Friday the issue of the Russian gas price that Kiev believes is too high, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said on Friday the controversy over his predecessor's naming a onetime Nazi collaborator a national hero would be settled before this year's Victory Day.
Azerbaijani MPs condemned on Friday the decision by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee to approve a bill on the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Friday a substantial increase in the country's funding for sports, saying athletes were the future of the country, not nuclear weapons.
Moscow said on Friday it linked the improvement of soured relations with Tbilisi to 'realistically minded' political figures in Georgia.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed hope on Friday that a "new quality" in relations between Moscow and Kiev will be established.
The election of Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraine's new president may further delay Ukraine's bid to enter NATO, the president of Eurasia Group Ian Bremmer told RIA Novosti on Friday.
Armenian groups in the United States rejoiced as the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly approved a resolution condemning as genocide the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Tajik ruling People's Democratic Party led by President Emomali Rakhmon has received 54 of the 63 seats in the Parliament after elections on February 28, Tajik Central Election Commission said on Friday.
The stalled talks on North Korea's nuclear program could resume as early as in the next few months, China's top North Korean envoy said on Friday.
Two police officers guarding the subway entrance to the Pentagon were shot when a gunman walked up to a security checkpoint and opened fire without saying a word.
China plans to increase its national defense spending by 7.5% to about $76.3 billion in 2010, according to a draft budget report.
Russian rescue workers and Chilean troops have unloaded the first plane with humanitarian aid to Chile which has been devastated by a series of earthquakes.
Dozens of ships, including ferries with over 1,000 passengers on board, have become stuck in ice in the Baltic Sea.
Turkey has recalled its ambassador to the United States shortly after a U.S. congressional panel supported a bill recognizing mass killings of Armenians by Turkish troops in the beginning of the 20th century as an act of genocide.
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a resolution recognizing the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I.



