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Features  In Pakistan, Uncertainty Grows Over North Waziristan Operation Washington has long pressed Pakistan to launch a ground operation in North Waziristan, home of the notorious Haqqani network. But is one coming? More News  Ethnic Uzbeks Sentenced To Life For Kyrgyz Violence A judge in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh has handed down life sentences to five of nine ethnic Uzbek men found guilty of brutally murdering a district police chief and his driver during the region's ethnic clashes in June. More  EU Clears Way For Treaty Change EU leaders have agreed that limited changes are needed to the bloc's main treaty to help ward off another financial crisis. More  Three 'Militants' Killed in Police Operation in Northern Tajikistan At least three militants have been killed in a police operation in northern Tajik district of Isfara. The raid comes as Tajik government forces continue a military operation against Islamic militants in the country's eastern Rasht Valley. More  Serbia Increases Reward For Mladic Capture Tenfold The government of Serbia is now offering an award of 10 million euros -- a tenfold increase from the previous amount -- for information leading to the capture of wartime Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic. More From Our Bureaus  Turks Asked To Leave Armenia Over Border Crossing Claim Two Turkish party leaders have been asked to leave Armenia after being questioned by National Security Service officials about their claims to have crossed the closed Armenian-Turkish border earlier this month. More  Russians Remember Soviet-Era Victims Russian human rights activists have commemorated the victims of Stalin-era political repressions in the Soviet Union. More  Death Toll Continues To Rise From Explosion At Belarusian Plant The death toll from an explosion at a plywood plant in the southwestern Belarusian town of Pinsk has risen to five. More  Kosovo Gov't Faces Confidence Vote The opposition political party Alliance for New Kosovo has requested that parliament take a vote of confidence in the government. More  Six Arrested Over Kyrgyz Police Attack Police in southern Kyrgyzstan have arrested six suspects in connection with a deadly attack on police officers. More  Armenia Delays Karabakh Vote An opposition faction in the Armenian parliament has postponed a vote on controversial legislation obliging Yerevan to formally recognize the independence of Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. More  Iran Charges Two 'Israeli Spies' Tehran's chief prosecutor says two Iranians have been charged with spying for Israel about Iran's nuclear program. More Persian Letters The Boy Who Fell In Love With A TV Heroine In a blog post titled "From Here and There,” blogger Zeitoon (Olive) writes about a young Iranian who fell in love with the heroine of a tele-novela: More Student Protests Shortage Of Gasoline By Riding Donkey An Iranian student has protested against what is being described as a shortage of gasoline by riding a donkey to his university in northern Iran. More Caucasus Report  Self-Immolation Incident Highlights Desperation Of Georgian IDPs A woman was hospitalized with severe burns on October 27 after setting fire to herself outside the Georgian Ministry for Displaced Persons in Tbilisi. Nana Pipia, 46, is one of several dozen internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia who set up camp outside the ministry building on October 25 to demand that minister Koba Subeliani either step down or re-house them in Tbilisi. More  Death Toll In Grozny Parliament Attack May Have Been Far Higher More than 20 police and security personnel were killed and more than 40 injured in the October 19 attack by a small group of suicide bombers on the Chechen parliament building in Grozny, a Chechen security official has admitted. The official casualty toll made public immediately after the attack was three dead and 17 injured. More Commentary  Early Elections Could Be A Serious Test For Europe’s Youngest Democracy Europe’s youngest country could prove that it is a fully functioning state capable of working through such situations in a peaceful, orderly manner. Over the long run, this momentum could result in greater stability for Kosovo, though it may be hard to see that just now. More Gandhara  Russia Goes Back To Afghanistan Gregory Feifer looks at Russia's stepped-up involvement in Afghanistan. More |
