President Alexander Lukashenko has apparently won an overwhelming majority of votes in the presidential election in Belarus. Preliminary official results show Lukashenko, who is seeking a third term, won re-election with 82.
A quake measuring 4 on the Richter scale has rocked Romania's highly seismic region of Vrancea on Sunday, media said. Initial reports mentioned no casualties or damages.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is much likely to stay for a third term, exit polls for Sunday's elections showed. The President, who has faced much criticism from the West for his human right practices, garnered nearly 85%, reports said.
An elderly Indian and four of his children were beheaded in public for "withcraft." World media said Sunday that workers in a tea plantation lynched the 60-year-old and four kids, while the man's pregnant wife managed to escape.
Two British men have been jailed for six years in India for sexually abusing boys at a homeless children's shelter in Bombay. Allan Waters, 58, and Duncan Grant, 61, were also fined USD 35 000 each.
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The former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was not poisoned, according to the UN War Crimes tribunal. The announcement came on the second day that Serbians were filing past his coffin in Belgrade.
Protests have turned violent in France after at least 250,000 people rallied against a controversial new labour law. The worst violence erupted in Paris, where riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas.
The heavily pregnant Katie Holmes and her man Tom Cruise have reportedly taken part in a ceremony involving rings on a ship. According to The Sun, the couple exchanged scientology rings aboard a ship with fellow scientologists John Travolta and Kelly Pres
Hundreds of Slobodan Milosevic's supporters lined up on Thursday to pay their last respects to the late Serbian leader, who died while being tried for war crimes. Milosevic's body returned home on Wednesday.
The Czech Republic has passed a law in favour of gay partnerships this week. The law will give gay couples rights to inherit a partner's property and raise children.
Romania's former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase resigned Wednesday from his positions of Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and head of the country's leading opposition Social Democratic Party. A day earlier the party leaders voted 37-16 against Nastase af
Danes have found their first case of H5 bird flu, news agencies broke on Wednesday. The virus was found in wild fowl, but it was not immediately clear whether that was a H5N1 case.
Bank Austria Creditanstalt is to start overseeing all units of Italian Unicredito Italiano SpA in Central and Eastern Europe, excluding Poland. The move will come under an agreement that the Italian banking group expects to conclude in the short term.
Gunmen have fired shots at the British Cultural Centre in Gaza City, Palestinian security sources have said. The gunmen have fled the scene.
Approval ratings for US President George Bush have plunged to a new low, surveys show. Only about 36% of Americans consider their leader a successful one, a number that is a percent lower than Bush's previous record reached November of 2005.
A newspaper has managed to access detailed information about more than 2,600 CIA operatives over the Internet. Tracking covert agents is easy, one just needs knowledge of the net, Chicago Tribune writes.
One of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants has admitted issuing a death warrant for 148 men. The admission occurred during the former Iraqi dictator's war crimes trial, which resumed on Monday.
Iran says Moscow's compromise proposal on its nuclear programme is "off the agenda", after the Islamic Republic was reported to the UN Security Council. A foreign ministry spokesman said "circumstances have changed".
At least 35 people have been killed and 92 injured in three car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The near simultaneous blasts reportedly targeted two markets in the Shia district of Sadr City.
The US state department says an American who was among four peace activists kidnapped in Iraq last year has been killed. Tom Fox's body was found on Friday morning, a spokesman said, without saying where.
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