- 21:59 06/08/2008
- 21:38 06/08/2008
The six countries trying to persuade Iran to halt its uranium enrichment will continue attempts to resolve the dispute over Tehran's nuclear program by diplomatic means, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
- 21:05 06/08/2008
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has asked that the UN war crimes tribunal to summon two diplomats at the heart of U.S. policy in the Balkans in the 1990s to testify in his genocide case.
- 21:03 06/08/2008
- 21:03 06/08/2008
The European Union on Wednesday condemned the coup in Mauritania, demanded that the president be returned to power, and threatened to halt aid to the northwest African country.
- 19:39 06/08/2008
India has completed the development of an anti-tank missile that has been in the works for 18 years, and will put it into service after field test trials in September, the Defense Ministry said.
- 18:52 06/08/2008
- 18:24 06/08/2008
The leader of Georgia's rebel province of South Ossetia said on Wednesday that Georgia is planning a full-scale invasion of the region before the start of September.
- 17:41 06/08/2008
A group of renegade army officers staged a coup, detaining Mauritania's president and prime minister, a Russian diplomat in the northwestern African nation said citing local media on Wednesday.
- 17:20 06/08/2008
The INS Sindhuvijay diesel-electric submarine departed for India early Wednesday after an extensive overhaul at a shipyard in northern Russia, the Zvezdochka shipbuilding company said.
- 17:15 06/08/2008
A total of 16,400 Chinese couples are planning to tie the knot on Friday as a combination of the Olympic opening ceremony and a numerical coincidence has sparked a wedding frenzy, the China Daily said Wednesday.
- 17:03 06/08/2008
The U.S. State Department paid $5 million as a reward to an anonymous recipient for assistance in the capture of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, Serbian newspaper Press said on Wednesday.
- 17:01 06/08/2008
The body of Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was laid to rest at Moscow's Donskoi monastery on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by hundreds of people.
- 16:04 06/08/2008
- 15:48 06/08/2008
- 15:33 06/08/2008
- 15:30 06/08/2008
Russia may review military cooperation with Belarus in response to U.S. missile defense plans in Central Europe, but will not return nuclear weapons to the country, the Russian ambassador to Minsk said Wednesday.
- 15:07 06/08/2008
The price of natural gas sold by Russia to Belarus will exceed $200 per 1,000 cubic meters in 2009, Russia's ambassador in Minsk said on Wednesday.
- 15:06 06/08/2008
Georgia's Reintegration Minister Temur Yakobashvili confirmed Wednesday that his country would hold direct talks Thursday with its rebel republic of South Ossetia.
