Iraqi Kurdistan

Turkmenistan: Western Concern Over Arrests

Prominent Turkmen and foreigners amongst scores arrested following bid to kill Niazov.

21 Feb 05

Suspicions are growing that security forces could have used envoy’s family members as hostages to force him to return home after defection.

21 Feb 05

Climbdown follows foreign warnings against attempt to overturn government.

21 Feb 05

Failure to join PfP programme could result in dismissals and even constitutional changes to Republika Srpska.

21 Feb 05

Brussels worried by slow pace of reform of judiciary and high level of corruption.

21 Feb 05

Poverty driving young men to take dangerous, highly-paid work in Iraq.

21 Feb 05

Shipping accident off Albanian coast does further damage to country’s tourism industry.

21 Feb 05

Economic collapse in Novi Pazar threatens to expose region’s simmering social and ethnic tensions.

21 Feb 05

Foreign business will think twice about coming to Bucharest until country cleans up its act.

21 Feb 05

An Afghan is cycling from Nangarhar to New York to tell the world it isn’t doing enough about his country.

21 Feb 05

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