- 20:22 18/12/2006
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discussed in a telephone conversation amendments to a draft UN resolution on the Iranian nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. 
- 19:27 18/12/2006
- 19:25 18/12/2006
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has demanded that American servicemen stationed in the country be stripped of diplomatic immunity.
- 19:09 18/12/2006
Current political efforts to resolve conflict situations in the Middle East may be disrupted by escalating tensions in Palestine between two rival political parties, a Russian senator said Monday.
- 18:47 18/12/2006
LUKoil [RTS: LKOH] intends to complete the purchase of a network of gasoline stations in Europe from the U.S.-based energy giant ConocoPhillips in the second quarter of 2007, the companies said in a joint statement Monday.
- 17:59 18/12/2006
- 17:52 18/12/2006
A key witness in the poisoning death of former Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko said Monday he has again been questioned by investigators probing the case.
- 16:59 18/12/2006
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- 15:29 18/12/2006
A Russian cargo plane carrying around 330 kilograms (730 lbs) of enriched uranium from Germany has landed at an airport near Moscow, Russia's nuclear watchdog said Monday.
- 15:18 18/12/2006
- 14:50 18/12/2006
Russia and Ukraine have reached an agreement to jointly manufacture two An-124 Condor heavy transport aircraft, the Volga-Dnepr aircraft manufacturing consortium said Monday in a press release.
- 14:40 18/12/2006
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- 13:24 18/12/2006
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will invest more than 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion) in Russia's economy in 2007, the bank's president said Monday.
- 13:21 18/12/2006
North Korea demanded Monday that the UN and the U.S. lift their sanctions, and that the construction of a light-water nuclear reactor in the country be resumed, before it agrees to consider nuclear disarmament.
- 12:53 18/12/2006
- 11:43 18/12/2006
Russia proposes separate agreements with individual European Union countries on Moscow's imports of their meat, as a temporary measure to solve an ongoing dispute with the 25-nation bloc, the country's veterinary watchdog said Monday.
- 11:04 18/12/2006
North Korea demands that the UN lift its sanctions, and that the United States unfreeze its bank accounts, as preconditions for abandoning its nuclear program, a source close to the ongoing international talks on the Pyongyang nuclear issue said Monday.
