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EU turns to Russia for help in Chad mission
The European Union expects Russia to supply it with helicopters for its Chad peace mission despite its dispute with Moscow over Georgia.
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Musharraf pledges free elections
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf pledged on Monday to hold free elections as he began a four-country European trip aimed at winning international support. Musharraf’s popularity has slumped over recent months in Pakistan, which has been racked by militant attacks, and faces a parliamentary election on February 18.
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Charles Taylor to get $70 000 a month for defence
Charles Taylor will get hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal aid to defend charges of war crimes in Sierra Leone, despite suspicions he is hiding huge personal wealth. The former Liberian president faces 11 charges at the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, including instigating murder, rape and terrorism.
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US rejects Russian concern over missile shield
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dismissed as nonsense on Thursday concerns in Moscow that a planned US missile shield in Eastern Europe could pose a strategic threat to Russia. In a further sign of growing tensions between Russia and the West, President Vladimir Putin in Moscow declared a moratorium on a key 1990 European arms treaty.
