- 22:07 07/08/2008
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Thursday he was prepared to enter into "any kind of talks," in order to find a solution to the current Georgian-South Ossetian conflict.
- 20:32 07/08/2008
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Thursday as the Chinese capital prepared for Friday's Olympic Games opening ceremony.
- 19:15 07/08/2008
Georgian troops are heading in large numbers toward South Ossetia, the head of the breakaway republic's Security Council said on Thursday.
- 18:12 07/08/2008
The Indian Air Force said on Thursday that India will soon sign a contract with Russia to receive 80 Mi-17 Hip-H multirole helicopters.
- 17:51 07/08/2008
- 17:35 07/08/2008
Russia and Kazakhstan will hold joint combat exercises in the Urals area from September 1 through 5, a Russian military official said Thursday.
- 17:13 07/08/2008
The launch of India's first unmanned mission to the Moon has been postponed until the middle of October, the head of the Indian space program has said.
- 17:11 07/08/2008
Georgia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday called on Russia to arrange direct talks between Tbilisi and Tskhinvali, the capital of the Georgian breakaway republic of South Ossetia.
- 17:07 07/08/2008
- 16:49 07/08/2008
- 15:39 07/08/2008
Radovan Karadzic will aim to prove at the Hague tribunal that no genocide took place in Srebrenica, and that fatality figures were deliberately exaggerated, a Serbian paper said on Thursday.
- 15:38 07/08/2008
Russia condemned Thursday the coup in Mauritania and expressed the hope that the northwest African country's constitution would be respected.
- 13:58 07/08/2008
- 13:33 07/08/2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) scheduled for August 28 in Tajikistan, The Tehran Times reported on Thursday.
- 13:31 07/08/2008
The deputy head of the UN nuclear watchdog arrived in Tehran on Thursday for a two-day visit to discuss prospects for cooperation with Iran's nuclear authorities, Iranian media said.
- 12:37 07/08/2008
- 12:21 07/08/2008
Russian peacekeepers in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone said on Thursday they had identified at least eight illegal flights over Georgia's breakaway region overnight.
- 11:33 07/08/2008
- 11:12 07/08/2008
Hundreds of homes were damaged in eastern Indonesia after a 6.6-magnitude quake and several aftershocks hit the region, the country's Meteorological and Geophysical Agency (BMG) reported on Thursday.
