Serbia's new government will focus on quick entry into the European Union, strengthening the country's economy and keeping Kosovo as a part of Serbia.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into a U.S.-led air strike that local officials say killed 15 civilians, amid accusations that another air strike killed 23 civilians traveling in a wedding convoy.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Moscow and Washington should keep up dialogue despite failing to overcome differences on U.S. missile defense plans in Europe.
The blast happened several hundred meters from the Red Mosque, after a tightly guarded meeting of Islamists at the mosque had ended.
President Hamid Karzai has ordered the Defense and Interior ministries and a body that oversees local government to investigate a U.S.-led coalition air strike.
The head of Pora! sought asylum after Russia's security services tried to prevent him from traveling abroad.
Taliban militants have released two Pakistani journalists more than 36-hours after they were abducted in a tribal region near the Afghan border.
Afghan security forces found more than 100 knives and swords, petrol bombs, and dozens of mobile phones in a search of Kabul's main prison.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka said there would be no clampdown on his opponents after a bomb explosion wounded 50 people at a concert he attended.
Russia's Defense Ministry says a "new war" could break out in Abkhazia if Tbilisi uses military force to resolve the conflict.
Two gunmen shot dead an Afghan parliamentarian near his home in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar.
Iran says its nuclear stance has not changed and that it is ready to hold talks with world major powers over its disputed nuclear program.
Iran's ambassador in Brussels has submitted Tehran's response to an incentives package offered by six world powers over the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme, the official news agency IRNA reported on Friday.
President Dmitry Medvedev goes to Turkmenistan on Friday, part of a visit to three ex-Soviet states aimed at heading off a European challenge to Russia's domination of Central Asian gas supplies.
About 10 people were wounded in an overnight shootout between supporters of rival ethnic Albanian political parties in north-western Macedonia, a Macedonian police source said on Friday.
Russia said on Thursday it will launch talks on buying gas from ex-Soviet Azerbaijan, a prospect that could undermine a Western-backed project to bypass Russia and ship fuel from the region direct to Europe.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may discuss the troubled Anglo-Russian oil joint venture TNK-BP on the sidelines of next week's G8 summit, a Russian official said on Thursday.
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, owner of Britain's Chelsea soccer club, has resigned as a regional governor in Russia, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
A human rights watchdog in Chechnya has demanded an investigation into a suspected mass grave where Russian soldiers may have buried up to 300 civilians.
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