- 19:00 23/03/2008
The Dalai Lama is rejecting allegations in the Chinese official press that he was behind the recent violent demonstrations in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, TV channel EuroNews said Sunday. 
- 18:01 23/03/2008
A South Ossetian national and a peacekeeper were badly wounded after a bomb went off in their car, the information and press department of the breakaway republic said on Sunday.
- 17:13 23/03/2008
Egyptian-Russian trade grew 50% year on year in 2007 to $2.1 billion, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Sunday.
- 15:48 23/03/2008
The militant group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, rejected on Sunday the report by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that it was holding secret talks with Israel.
- 15:24 23/03/2008
Afghan and NATO-led forces killed and wounded dozens of Taliban militants in a joint air and ground operation in the province of Uruzgan in south Afghanistan, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
- 13:31 23/03/2008
Nineteen sailors went missing after a Ukrainian ship sank off the southern coast of China, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
- 13:10 23/03/2008
- 12:59 23/03/2008
Russia and Egypt will sign an agreement on cooperation in the civilian nuclear energy sector next week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said.
- 12:29 23/03/2008
Two astronauts from the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour completed their fifth and final spacewalk of the current mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, NASA said on its website.
