| Russia,
US sign treaty on nuclear cooperation
|
Moscow,
May 7:
Russia and the US signed a treaty on civilian nuclear cooperation
on Tuesday, the last day of Vladimir Putin's presidency.
|
| Hundreds
of thousands need help in Myanmar
|
United
Nations, May 7:
The United Nations estimates that "hundreds of thousands"
of people in Myanmar are in need of help after a cyclone that
killed nearly 22,500, a top U.N. humanitarian official said.
|
| Iran
postpones execution after EU protest
|
Tehran,
May 7:
Following a protest by the European Union (EU), the Iranian
judiciary postponed the execution of a young man sentenced to
death for having killed another man in a street brawl in Tehran
in August 2005, the Iranian press reported Wednesday.
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| Tension
in Egypt clouds outlook for succession
|
Cairo,
May 7:
Social tensions in Egypt over the past year have eroded overwhelming
expectations that Gamal Mubarak will succeed his father President
Hosni Mubarak at the helm of the most populous ...
|
| Who
will hold the reins of Russia's power vertical?
|
Moscow,
May 7:
President Vladimir Putin pulled tight the shuddering lines of
Russia's fledgling post-Soviet federalism when he took office
in 1999, creating the so-called 'power vertical', a part feudal,
part bureaucratic human pyramid of power ending at the Kremlin.
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