Naftogaz’s contract with Gazprom has a “take-or-pay”clause which covers 80 percent of the amount of gas set out in the contract.

An estimated 9,000 Kurdish prisoners are denied the right to defend themselves in their mother tongue during trials.

In the rear of the vehicle is a pullout toolbox designed to hold a variety of equipment without having to open the entire tailgate.

PlayStation 2 was launched in March 2000, meaning it took a little over six years for Sony to launch a new version of the platform.

Osmani said that Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan would meet in Tehran at a trilateral conference on December 17-19.

Ashton said she hoped a visit by Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil to Gaza would help to calm the situation.

Appeals judges at tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ordered the release of Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said its manufacturing index was at minus 10.7, a five-month low.

Iran has in the past accused Western intelligence agencies and the Israeli Mossad of carrying out attacks against its nuclear scientists.

“It's up to the Israeli government to make determinations about how they're going to carry out their military objectives,” Rhodes said.