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Greece has rejected suggestions it should cede control over its own budget to an EU outsider, the BBC reported on Sunday.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to meet with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia in an attempt to restart peace talks, the BBC reported on Sunday.
An EU embargo on oil imports from Iran may push world oil prices to $150 per barrel, the head of Iran’s state oil company said on Sunday.
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At least one trillion rubles ($32 billion) left Russia last year in apparent money laundering schemes, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Sunday.
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At least 33 people were killed after the Syrian government’s troops shelled a Damascus suburb under rebel control, the Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday.
Russia calls for increasing the number of foreign observers in Syria amid an ongoing standoff between the Syrian government and the opposition, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.
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South Ossetia opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva told RIA Novosti on Sunday she had scheduled her inauguration as president of the former Georgian republic for February 10.
A delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Iran to discuss the Islamic Republic’s controversial nuclear program, the Iranian media reported on Sunday.
Specialists of Russia’s Mission Control Center raised the orbit altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) in the early hours of Sunday to prevent a possible collision with a Chinese satellite fragment, a spokesman for the Center said.
Sudan has blamed South Sudan for hampering an agreement intended to resolve an oil dispute between the two countries during Saturday talks in Addis Ababa, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
The first round of elections to the upper house of parliament, the Consultative Council, will take place in Egypt on Sunday and Monday, and the second will follow on February 14 and 15, Supreme Election Commission head Abdel Moez Ibrahim was quoted as saying on the Al Ahram website.
The Arab League observer mission to Syria has been postponed temporarily, the mission head, General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa Al-Dabi, stressed in an interview with Egyptian news portal Al Ahram on Sunday.
A French tourist has been killed and a German national has been wounded in an attack by a group of gunmen on a currency exchange office in the popular Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.



