- 22:27 01/08/2008
Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia reported on Friday evening that three people had been killed as Georgian troops continued to shell its capital, Tskhinvali. 
- 22:07 01/08/2008
Russia and Cuba are to make efforts to boost bilateral cooperation in all spheres, the Russian Security Council said on Friday.
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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has expressed concerns that a "media witch-hunt" will make it impossible for him to get a fair trial at a UN tribunal.
- 20:45 01/08/2008
Talks between Washington and Warsaw on the deployment of elements of a U.S. missile shield in Poland "may be prolonged" due to the upcoming U.S. presidential elections, the Polish premier said on Friday.
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The Moscow City Court sentenced in absentia on Friday a former Yukos executive to life imprisonment for attempted murder and organizing contract killings.
- 18:18 01/08/2008
At least 35 people died when a train caught fire on Friday in south India's Andhra Pradesh state, the country's ministry of railways has said.
- 17:24 01/08/2008
A total solar eclipse that began at 9:20 GMT ended at 11:21 GMT on Friday, but a partial eclipse of the sun is still visible in some areas, NASA reported.
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At least 16 schoolgirls died and 27 were injured after a school dormitory collapsed early Friday in central Turkey, the country's Interior Minister Besir Atalay said.
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Hamas security forces arrested senior Fatah and Palestinian National Authority leaders in the Gaza Strip on Friday, raising tensions between the rival factions a notch higher.
- 12:36 01/08/2008
The Phoenix Mars lander mission has found the first clear sample of water ice, confirming the possibility that life may have formed on the Red Planet, NASA said.
- 11:45 01/08/2008
