Eurasia Press & News

Independent Gazette (Nezavisimaya Gazeta) reported that Russian State Duma (parliament) has drafted a bill that will make a tougher law on fight against extremism. The bill will abrogate the regulations, in accordance to which two warnings received by social organizations, mass media or ordinary citizens are annulled in one year. …

A brawl between groups of youth took place in Northeastern Administrative District of Moscow in the backyard of building No. 17 on Anadyr Avenue. According to earlier reports, natives of the North Caucasus and Russian youngsters were the ones involved in the fight. Several people were hospitalized as a result. …

TEHRAN, June 15 (MNA) – The 29th summit of the 12 member states of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) will be opened on June 17 in the city of Isfahan, Mehr reported on Sunday.

TEHRAN, June 15 (MNA) — Jam Petrochemical Complex’s Tenth olefin project, the world’s largest of its kind, will be officially inaugurated on Tuesday in Assaluyeh region, southern Iran, in a ceremony attended by President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo’s first constitution as an independent state came into force on Sunday, giving ethnic Albanians the right to executive powers held by the United Nations mission that has run the territory since 1999.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon will soon form a national unity government in line with a Doha agreement to end the country’s political crisis, Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Sunday.

(Reuters) – Iraq has sent army and police reinforcements to the southern city of Amara to prepare for a crackdown on Shi’ite militias. The operation will be the latest in a series of offensives by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that are intended to stamp the government’s authority over areas once …

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The movement of Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will not compete in local elections under its own name but join with other groups and ask its followers to vote for those candidates, Sadr officials said on Sunday.

(Reuters) – A U.S. soldier was killed on Thursday in the Kadhimiya district of northwestern Baghdad, when his vehicle was struck by a bomb, the U.S. military reported.

AMARA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq’s government beefed up army and police units in the southern city of Amara on Sunday for a new crackdown on Shi’ite militias, a Reuters reporter said.