Riga - Latvian prime minister Ivars Godmanis survived a vote of no confidence comfortably in the national parliament or Saeima on Wednesday.
The motion against the embattled prime minister was lost by 40 votes to 51 after a debate lasting more than five hours.
"We are in the same situation as much of the rest of the world and it will require a lot of work - a lot," Godmanis told parliamentarians in a powerful address before the vote.
Lahore, Feb. 4 : A private TV channel has claimed that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) have finalized a power-sharing deal in Punjab that will be disclosed at an appropriate time.
The channel quoted PML-Q sources as saying that the Party has decided to form an alliance with the PPP `if the need arises', after its efforts for the reunifications with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) failed.
Paris - A book published on Wednesday accuses French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner of using his position as head of a public health organization to carry out high-paying consulting activities in Africa for private companies.
The book, "The World According to K," by journalist Pierre Pean, alleges that from 2002 to 2007 Kouchner represented two private health consulting firms in Africa while at the same time heading the association Esther, the aim of which was to increase international hospital cooperation.
Berlin/Warsaw - When Chris Gueffroy became the last person to be killed crossing the Berlin Wall, nobody could know that within hours, communism would begin its inexorable fall in the Polish city of Warsaw, 500 kilometres east.
On February 6, 1989, Polish communist leaders sat down with the banned Solidarity labour union, led by Lech Walesa, to launch some two months of negotiations on power-sharing.
Budapest - Hungary's socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany reacted angrily on Tuesday to comments made in an interview in the UK Financial Times newspaper by his arch rival, the centre- right opposition leader Viktor Orban.
Orban accused the Hungarian government of wasting the opportunity to use the 25-billion-dollar rescue loan granted by the International Monetary Fund, the EU and the World Bank last October.
Riga - Latvian prime minister Ivars Godmanis survived a vote of no confidence comfortably in the national parliament or Saeima on Wednesday.
Lahore, Feb. 4 : A private TV channel has claimed that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) have finalized a power-sharing deal in Punjab that will be disclosed at an appropriate time.
Paris - A book published on Wednesday accuses French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner of using his position as head of a public health organization to carry out high-paying consulting activities in Africa for private companies.
Berlin/Warsaw - When Chris Gueffroy became the last person to be killed crossing the Berlin Wall, nobody could know that within hours, communism would begin its inexorable fall in the Polish city of Warsaw, 500 kilometres east.
Budapest - Hungary's socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany reacted angrily on Tuesday to comments made in an interview in the UK Financial Times newspaper by his arch rival, the centre- right opposition leader Viktor Orban.
