- 22:07 22/08/2008
Russia's defense minister said on Friday the military had completed the withdrawal of troops from Georgia as stipulated in a peace deal brokered by the French president last week. 
- 21:00 22/08/2008
The Nuclear Suppliers Group has failed to lift a 34-year-long ban on nuclear trade with India, delaying a U.S.-sponsored deal on civil nuclear cooperation, Indian NDTV reported Friday.
- 19:17 22/08/2008
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- 18:04 22/08/2008
Russian athletes stormed home on Friday to win the women's 4x100 meters relay and take Russia's 17th gold at the Beijing Olympics.
- 17:45 22/08/2008
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- 17:38 22/08/2008
Ukraine's opposition party has pledged to send 365 neckties to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was recently caught on camera nervously chewing his garment while discussing the Georgian-Russian conflict.
- 17:09 22/08/2008
Russia's Mirazh guided missile corvette returned Friday to its Black Sea Fleet base at Sevastopol, which Russia rents from Ukraine, after patrolling waters off the Georgian coast.
- 16:31 22/08/2008
The joint Rubezh-2008 command-and-staff exercises of the Collective Security Treaty Organization finished Friday in Armenia.
- 16:24 22/08/2008
About 50 protesters gathered in the Crimean capital of Simferopol on Friday, urging Russia to pull out of a friendship agreement with Ukraine and to make a territorial claim on the peninsula.
- 15:29 22/08/2008
The United States has refused to participate with Russia in NATO's Operation Active Endeavour naval antiterrorism exercise, a source in the Russian Black Sea Fleet said Friday.
- 15:23 22/08/2008
Georgia is preparing for military action in its breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a senior Russian military official warned Friday.
- 15:18 22/08/2008
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Georgia's recent military operations in South Ossetia caused some 100 billion rubles ($4.1 billion) in damage, according to the breakaway republic's preliminary estimates.
- 14:46 22/08/2008
Pirates have seized a vessel in Somalia with two Russian nationals among crewmembers, the International Maritime Bureau said Friday.
- 13:34 22/08/2008
Russia's Mirazh guided missile corvette returned Friday to its Black Sea Fleet base at Sevastopol, which Russia rents from Ukraine, after patrolling waters off the Georgian coast.
- 13:32 22/08/2008
Pakistan's electoral commission announced on Friday that presidential elections to find a successor for Pervez Musharraf are to take place on September 6.
- 11:28 22/08/2008
