Protesting Kazakh oil workers have called upon President Nursultan Nazarbaev to intervene in their conflict with the oil company's management.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian says Armenia has attracted 61 billion drams ($163 million) in investments as a result of its decision to offer tax breaks to companies importing industrial equipment.
The Pakistani army has rejected a report that a cell phone found in the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in his Pakistani hideout contained contacts to a militant group with ties to Pakistan's intelligence agency.
The Belarusian government's crackdown on dissenters in the aftermath of December's disputed presidential election will feature in next week's Community of Democracies meeting in the Lithuanian capital.
The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have failed to finalize a framework agreement to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict during fresh face-to-face negotiations hosted by Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has said that Spain will withdraw 10 percent of its 1,500 troops in Afghanistan in the first half of next year, with a complete pullout to be completed by 2014.
A senior Iraqi Central Bank official says the government has adopted a two-pronged plan to restructure the national currency in order to facilitate large transactions and make government accounts more efficient.
Kazakhstan has sent another request to the Austrian government calling for the extradition of Rakhat Aliev, the former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev.
An official Islamic prayer room has been opened in the Kyrgyz parliament after heated debate on the topic.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that "several hundred" French troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan before the end of 2011.
Activists and witnesses say thousands have demonstrated in cities across Syria calling for the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, despite a military crackdown on the three-month-old protests.
EU heads of governments have endorsed the idea of reintroducing internal border controls in Europe's passport-free Schengen zone -- as a last resort -- at a summit in Brussels where EU leaders also agreed Croatia should become the bloc's 28th member state in mid-2013.
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