Damascus - Syria hopes that the new US president would change the US foreign policy, said Syrian Minister of Information said on Wednesday.
"We hope that the US drop its policies of wars and boycott and would adopt diplomacy and dialogue," reported the Syrian news agency SANA quoting Hohsen Belal.
Belal added that he would wish for more peace in the Middle East.
The US has raided a Syrian village a couple of weeks ago killing eight civilians, according to Syria. The event has escalated tensions between the two countries.
London - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who was Wednesday given an academic briefing on the origins of the credit crunch, wound up the "lesson" with the searching question of why nobody had seen the crisis coming.
The 82-year-old monarch had the complexities of the current global financial crisis explained to her during the inauguration of a new building at the renowned London School of Economics (LSE).
Stockholm - Swedish state-owned energy group Vattenfall on Wednesday said it is buying an 18.7-per-cent stake in Polish energy company ENEA S. A. for 4.5 billion kronor (584 million dollars).
ENEA is one of four state-owned energy groups in Poland and accounts for some 8 per cent of the country's energy production, the Vattenfall statement said.
Vattenfall chief executive Lars G Josefsson noted that ENEA's energy production is mainly coal-based. He said this would present an opportunity for Vattenfall to gain from the group's knowledge of CCS, or carbon capture and storage, technology.
Nairobi - A regional summit on the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is to take place in Nairobi Friday, a Kenyan foreign ministry official said Wednesday as small-scale fighting between rebels and pro-government militia continued for a second day.
"There will be a summit on Friday," Patrick Wamoto, Head of the Kenyan Foreign Ministry's African and African Union Directorate, told Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa. "The agenda is DR Congo."
Amman - The Islamic Action Front (IAF), Jordan's largest political party, on Wednesday expressed guarded optimism over the election of Barak Obama as the next US president and said they considered his win an "apology" from the American people to the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We welcome Obama's election and believe that his win represents a clear message inside as well as outside America," IAF Secretary General Zaki Bani Ershaid told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Damascus - Syria hopes that the new US president would change the US foreign policy, said Syrian Minister of Information said on Wednesday.
London - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who was Wednesday given an academic briefing on the origins of the credit crunch, wound up the "lesson" with the searching question of why nobody had seen the crisis coming.
Stockholm - Swedish state-owned energy group Vattenfall on Wednesday said it is buying an 18.7-per-cent stake in Polish energy company ENEA S. A. for 4.5 billion kronor (584 million dollars).
Lisbon - Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates on Wednesday described US
Nairobi - A regional summit on the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is to take place in Nairobi Friday, a Kenyan foreign ministry official said Wednesday as small-scale fighting between rebels and pro-government militia continued for a second day.
