The crisis triggered by Russia’s natural gas dispute with Ukraine could accelerate the Kremlin’s efforts to build alternative pipelines, but any project faces big financial and political hurdles.
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Europe’s Energy Supplies Hang In Balance
The attorney for Nazi hit man Heinrich Boere says a German court has ruled that his client is medically unfit for trial.
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Nazi Hitman Unfit For Trial, Court Rules
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Israel had accepted an Egyptian-French cease-fire plan for the Gaza Strip, but Hamas officials in Syria told CBS News that they could not agree to the plan as written.
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Hamas Rejects Gaza Cease-Fire
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) Pakistan’s increasingly turbulent border region poses threats not just to the US mission in Afghanistan, but also to neighbouring India and the world beyond, according to President George W. Bush’s national security adviser.Thus the biggest foreign-policy challenge awaiting President-elect Barack Obama isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan but Pakistan, National Security Adviser Stephen [...]
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Turbulent Pakistan poses threats to India and the world: US
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) Pakistan’s increasingly turbulent border region poses threats not just to the US mission in Afghanistan, but also to neighbouring India and the world beyond, according to President George W. Bush’s national security adviser.Thus the biggest foreign-policy challenge awaiting President-elect Barack Obama isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan but Pakistan, National Security Adviser Stephen [...]
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