- 21:21 18/07/2007
- 21:01 18/07/2007
The European Union said Wednesday it was concerned by Russia's refusal to cooperate with British authorities over London's extradition request for Andrei Lugovoi, the key suspect in the Alexander Litvinenko murder case.
- 20:56 18/07/2007
The U.S. Senate failed Wednesday to approve a bill (52-47) to pull out American troops from Iraq by April 2008, with 60 votes required for the Democratic resolution to go through to President George W. Bush.
- 20:23 18/07/2007
U.K.-based Russian tycoon, Boris Berezovsky, said he is ready to face Russian trial for fraud but only in a third country and with Andrei Lugovoi who is wanted by Britain as a prime murder suspect.
- 20:09 18/07/2007
Russia is ready to discuss assisting in deactivating North Korea's nuclear facilities, a Russian envoy said Wednesday at six-party talks in China, aimed at pressing the Communist state to take further denuclearization measures.
- 19:07 18/07/2007
- 17:36 18/07/2007
Despite a recent moratorium on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, Russia is ready to discuss the issue with the United States, the Russian foreign minister told the U.S. secretary of state on the phone.
- 17:31 18/07/2007
The European Union has welcomed Libya's decision to lift death sentences against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting children with HIV, following a large compensation payout to the victims' families from an international fund.
- 17:22 18/07/2007
- 17:11 18/07/2007
U.K.-based fugitive Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky has confirmed media reports of a foiled murder plot against him, and added that police in London had prohibited him from revealing further details.
- 16:39 18/07/2007
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- 16:00 18/07/2007
- 15:23 18/07/2007
- 15:04 18/07/2007
Russia has proposed to the United States that the sides draft a simpler version of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), a senior Defense Ministry official said Wednesday.
- 14:23 18/07/2007
- 14:06 18/07/2007
Reports in the British media that two Russian strategic bombers violated U.K. airspace are untrue, an aide to the Russian Air Force commander said Wednesday.
- 13:34 18/07/2007
Russia has proposed to the United States that the sides draft a simpler version of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), a senior Defense Ministry official said Wednesday.
- 13:29 18/07/2007
The amount of poisonous phosphorous in the air in the Lvov Region in western Ukraine does not exceed maximum allowable concentration levels, the Ukrainian emergencies ministry's press service said Wednesday.
