23 January: European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday are expected to agree to sanction Iran's central bank and announce an embargo on buying Iranian oil. On Sunday British and French ships joined a US carrier group in a flotilla

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23 January: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed establishing a new state agency on national development and interethnic accord. Interethnic issues have been prominent in the headlines in the last year, after a series of murders following cl

22 January: The second and final round of trilateral meetings between the leaders of the two Cypriot communities and the UN chief kicks off today on Long Island and will determine whether the Turkish and Greek Cypriots have now arrived at a point where th

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21 January: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said at a Press Conference in Washington that the international community is pursuing a dual-track strategy in its stand-off with Iran on the nuclear issue. "On the one hand, it is necessary to sh

21 January: Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg stated in İstanbul on Friday that he was “shocked” by the court’s decision to acquit all 19 suspects of membership in a terrorist organization in the 2007 murder of Turkish-Arme

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20 January: Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov summoned French ambassador to Azerbaijan Gabriel Keller to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on January 19 to express Azerbaijan’s concern over French Senate’s discussion of the draft law consi

20 January: Moscow is likely to face a barrage of criticism from European lawmakers next week when the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) plans to hold two debates on last month's disputed State Duma elections.(Kommersant)