- 21:27 15/12/2006
The Lebanese prime minister has enlisted Russia's support in setting up an international tribunal to investigate the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the country's incumbent head of government said Friday. 
- 21:05 15/12/2006
Lebanon's prime minister said Friday he had not discussed deliveries of Russian-made air defense systems to his country during his current visit to Moscow.
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- 18:33 15/12/2006
Bilateral contacts between North Korean and United States diplomats alongside the six-party talks on the reclusive communist state's nuclear problem could be the key to resolving the issue, a senior Russian MP said Friday.
- 17:54 15/12/2006
- 16:57 15/12/2006
Iranians have been voting Friday for local councilors and members of a powerful clerical body in polls seen as the first test of public approval for the country's hard-line president since he came to power in 2005.
- 16:42 15/12/2006
Kyrgyzstan's prime minister told the Foreign Ministry Friday to study possible changes to an agreement on a U.S. airbase, following a U.S. airman's fatal shooting of a Kyrgyz truck driver last week.
- 16:24 15/12/2006
A German television and radio company, Deutsche Welle, said its journalist who was deported from Chechnya earlier Friday was accredited to work in the counterterrorism operation zone.
- 15:07 15/12/2006
The head of Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] and Ukraine's fuel and energy minister discussed Friday a possible increase of Russian natural gas transit via Ukraine to Europe in 2007, the energy giant said.
- 13:21 15/12/2006
The presidents of Russia and Belarus are meeting in the Kremlin Friday, with talks on the future of the Union State among the subjects to be discussed.
- 13:06 15/12/2006
- 12:56 15/12/2006
Russia's 2008 presidential election must be moved from March 9 to March 2, or the first Sunday of the month, the top election official said Friday.
- 12:26 15/12/2006
There are no longer secret departments in Russia charged with liquidating traitors, a government daily quoted a KGB veteran as saying Friday.
- 12:09 15/12/2006
A journalist of a German television and radio company, Deutsche Welle, has been deported from Chechnya for lack of a required permit, a spokesman for the North Caucasus republic's law enforcement agencies said Friday.
- 10:42 15/12/2006
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Kyrgyzstan's parliament passed a resolution Friday instructing the government to consider closing a U.S. airbase in the Central Asian country's capital, Bishkek, following a fatal incident involving an American serviceman.
- 10:29 15/12/2006
- 09:36 15/12/2006
The Russian and Belarusian leaders will discuss the Union State and integration in Moscow Friday, a Kremlin source said.
