Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered Tuesday to help Kazakhstan diversify its economy and ensure it does not suffer too much from the fallout of the global economic crisis.
"Close economic relations need to be expanded," the chancellor told a news conference after talks in Berlin with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Nazarbayev said his energy-rich country was interested in deepening its relations with Germany and was in need of new technology and know-how from Europe.
Amman - Jordan's government came under fire Tuesday for returning its ambassador to Israel, just two weeks after Israel halted attacks on the Gaza Strip which prompted massive protests in Jordan.
"At a time when Jordanians are looking to see the government sever ties with the Zionist entity, the government hurried to close the file of the Israeli holocaust and took this step which runs counter to the people's will and sentiment," said Murad Adayleh of the Islamic Action Front (IAF), Jordan's largest political party.
Paris - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday in Paris that he hoped the upcoming Israeli elections did not mean the Middle East peace process would have to start again from square one.
"We will work together with anyone the Israeli people elect, as long as we don't have to start at the beginning again," Abbas said one week before Israeli general elections are to be held.
Havana - The number of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Cuba is decreasing and now stands at 205, even as the Cuban government has increased "political and social repression" in the form of "short-lived arbitrary arrests," a dissident human rights organization said Monday.
La Paz - Bolivia's new constitution passed with 61.4 per cent of the votes in favour, according to the final official count of referendum ballots released by the country's electoral authorities on Monday.
The measure received 2.06 million votes, with close to 1.3 million votes (38.6 per cent of the total) against the proposed text.
The abstention rate was 9.74 per cent, the lowest in Bolivia in the past 25 years.
Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered Tuesday to help Kazakhstan diversify its economy and ensure it does not suffer too much from the fallout of the global economic crisis.
Amman - Jordan's government came under fire Tuesday for returning its ambassador to Israel, just two weeks after Israel halted attacks on the Gaza Strip which prompted massive protests in Jordan.
Paris - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday in Paris that he hoped the upcoming Israeli elections did not mean the Middle East peace process would have to start again from square one.
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Havana - The number of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Cuba is decreasing and now stands at 205, even as the Cuban government has increased "political and social repression" in the form of "short-lived arbitrary arrests," a dissident human rights organization said Monday.
La Paz - Bolivia's new constitution passed with 61.4 per cent of the votes in favour, according to the final official count of referendum ballots released by the country's electoral authorities on Monday.
