22:55 22:58 | 0 | Itar-Tass
According to the final election report, Yanukovich gained 48.95% of votes (12.48 million) in the February 7 election round, while his rival, Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko, gained 45.47% of votes (11.59 million).
09:07 09:29 | 0 | EMportal
The initiative provides an important opportunity to end the political crisis and to advance the country's reforms and the European integration agenda
09:20 | 0 | Anadolu
70 photos selected by the "Istanbul Photo Contest" jury from among thousands of photographs taken by 213 photographers from 40 countries, will be on display at the exhibit for a month.
09:23 | 0 | EMportal
The last weekend of carnival will be celebrated throughout Greece on Saturday and Sunday, as Monday marks the religious holiday of "Shrove Monday", the beginning of Lent in the predominately Christian Orthodox east Mediterranean country. Orthodox Easter will be celebrated
09:24 | 0 | ANA
Some 600 hectares of arable land was flooded along the Evros River, extreme NE Greece, as a result of a levee breach near the village of Tichero and in the wake of recent heavy rainfall.
09:29 09:40 | 0 | EMportal, MIA
The United States, British and Afghan forces have kicked off a major offensive operation against Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, which is liable to prove the biggest battles in the eight-year-long war on terror in the post-Taliban country.
09:30 | 0 | Focus
The other checkpoints on Bulgarian-Greek border are operating normally.
09:32 | 0 | Focus
In an operation dubbed Morina the Albanian police have foiled the contraband of 20,000 pairs of shoes worth half a million of dollars.
09:36 | 0 | Hürriyet Daily News
Emitt, one of the biggest travel and tourism fairs in the Mediterranean began in Istanbul on Thursday. The guest country of this year’s fair is Egypt.
09:40 09:45 | 0 | EIbusiness.com
EU officials on Saturday pledged a toughening of monetary policy in the wake of Greece's economic crisis, raising the possibility of modifying the bloc's stability pact.
11:43 | 0 | EMportal, EUbusiness.com, Beta
EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said Friday she would make her first trip to the Balkans shortly, following talks with Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger in Vienna.
22:59 | 0 | EMportal
On behalf of NATO, I warmly congratulate Viktor Yanukovych on his election as President of Ukraine. The elections were free, fair and democratic, and an example for the region.