- 13:47 19/12/2006
A Libyan court Tuesday sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death after finding them guilty of infecting more than 400 children with the deadly HIV virus in a Benghazi hospital in the late 1990s. 
- 13:32 19/12/2006
A new price for natural gas proposed by Russia is disadvantageous for Azerbaijan, the country's industry and energy minister said Tuesday.
- 13:26 19/12/2006
International rating agency Fitch Ratings said Tuesday a mooted deal on the acquisition by Gazprom [RTS:GAZP] of a controlling stake in the vast Sakhalin II energy project in the country's Far East would certainly benefit Russia's energy giant, but could have a credit impact on Royal Dutch Shell.
- 12:45 19/12/2006
Medical experts have detected no traces of polonium on a Russian youth opposition movement head who met with the murdered former Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko, the leader said Tuesday.
- 12:27 19/12/2006
Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom and Gaz de France Tuesday extended their gas contracts from 2012 to 2030 and agreed on additional deliveries beginning in 2010.
- 12:22 19/12/2006
- 11:33 19/12/2006
An abnormally warm winter has gripped Russia's Western Siberia since the start of December, the local weather service said Tuesday.
- 11:26 19/12/2006
- 11:06 19/12/2006
North Korea has said it will accept International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections if its demands are met, but does not want permanent monitoring of its nuclear facilities, a source said Tuesday.
- 10:59 19/12/2006
- 10:38 19/12/2006
North Korea has said it will accept IAEA inspections if its demands are met, but does not want permanent monitoring of its nuclear facilities, a source said Tuesday.
- 09:43 19/12/2006
- 09:42 19/12/2006
The Russian and Syrian leaders will focus on the Mideast peace settlement, regional security and bilateral relations during President Bashar al-Assad's visit to Moscow, which begins Tuesday, a Kremlin source said.
- 08:26 19/12/2006
