CAIRO, April 1 (RIA Novosti) - The presidents of France and Egypt will become the first leaders of the Mediterranean Union due to be launched in July 2008, the Asharq Al-Awsat daily said on Monday. EU leaders last month approved
BEIRUT, April 1 (RIA Novosti) - Syria has said it has rejected an offer to freeze a UN investigation into the assassination of ex-Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri in exchange for 'allowing' presidential polls in Lebanon. Rafik Hariri was killed in
SAMARA, April 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia' Progress design and production center is developing a new Bion-M biosatellite for scientific and applied research in space biology and medicine, a spokesman for the center said on Tuesday. He said the new
MOSCOW, April 1 (RIA Novosti) - Israelis and Palestinians should cease hostilities soon, the Russian Foreign Ministry said after a meeting between the Russian foreign minister and a Palestinian legislative council deputy Tuesday. "We stressed the necessity to cease the
CAIRO, April 1 (RIA Novosti) - Egyptian authorities have opened the country's border with Gaza for one day to allow Egyptians stranded in the enclave to re-enter the country, the MENA news agency said on Tuesday. The Rafah border crossing
LONDON, April 1 (RIA Novosti) - The U.K. will postpone a troop withdrawal from Iraq announced late last year due to recent fighting in Basra, the British defense secretary told the House of Commons on Tuesday. The U.K. had planned
WASHINGTON, April 1 (RIA Novosti) - The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously expressed its support for a resolution calling for the acceptance of Georgia and Ukraine into the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP). The resolution, which is not legally
7 million to ethnic Serbs in Kosovo over the next few days, a deputy foreign minister said * Russia's lower house of parliament could approve Vladimir Putin's candidacy for the post of prime minister on May 8, State Duma Speaker
Recognizing the growing role of mobile in people's lives, M:Metrics and Mediamark Research Inc. announced a partnership that would combine their respective audience data on mobile devices and in print.
The Nielsen Co. Monday reported advertising spending rose only 0.6 percent in 2007, slightly better than the 0.2 percent increase TNS Media Intelligence reported last week.
The Writers Guild of America strike had the biggest impact on prime-time television ad prices charged by NBC, particularly in first quarter of this year, according to an analysis by media agency TargetCast tcm.
In 1999, three central European states that had been behind the "iron curtain" for half a century were accepted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation: Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. That decision implied the beginning of the end of
