- 23:24 24/08/2008
BISHKEK, August 24 (RIA Novosti) – According to preliminary reports, only 20 out of 90 people, aboard a Kyrgyz passenger plane bound for Tehran, survived after the aircraft crashed near the capital, Bishkek, the country’s emergencies minister said on Sunday.
- 18:43 24/08/2008
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia were ready for cooperation with observers from the Organization for Co-Operation and Security in Europe.
- 17:28 24/08/2008
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge declared the Beijing Olympic Games closed on Sunday.
- 16:32 24/08/2008
The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights called the destruction in Tskhinvali an insult to mankind during a visit to the devastated South Ossetian capital on Sunday.
- 15:16 24/08/2008
A U.S. warship has delivered $13 million worth of humanitarian aid to the Georgian port of Batumi, Georgia's Ministry of Defense said on Sunday.
- 14:29 24/08/2008
Moscow and Kiev should take each other's interests into account when drawing up foreign policy, and should work to resolve the issue of Russia's Black Sea fleet, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday.
- 13:38 24/08/2008
A train hit a mine on Sunday morning near the Georgian city of Gori, a Georgian Interior Ministry official said, adding that there were so far no reports of casualties.
- 13:16 24/08/2008
Russia is interested in the further development of trade and economic ties with Jordan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday after talks with King Abdullah II.
- 12:45 24/08/2008
The breakaway Georgian republic of South Ossetia is to ask Russia to set up extra observer posts on its de facto border with Georgia, the republic's acting prime minister, Boris Chochiev, said on Sunday.
