- 22:08 01/09/2008
"As long as the withdrawal of troops has not been respected, all meetings on the partnership accord are postponed," Jose Manuel Barroso told reporters after an emergency EU summit in Brussels. 
- 22:01 01/09/2008
- 21:20 01/09/2008
Georgia asked the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on Monday to end Russia's peacekeeping mandate in Abkhazia, one of the two rebel regions that Moscow has recognized as independent, the Foreign Ministry said.
- 21:18 01/09/2008
Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, plans to apply for permission to ship crude oil to China via Kazakhstan in the fourth quarter of this year and in 2009, the company CEO said on Monday.
- 21:01 01/09/2008
- 20:44 01/09/2008
Egyptian archaeologists have found the burial chamber and sarcophagus of the pharaoh Senusret II, who ruled Egypt from around 1897 BC to 1878 BC, the MENA news agency reported on Monday.
- 20:35 01/09/2008
South Ossetians have sent over 300 lawsuits to the International Criminal Court, seeking to bring Georgian authorities to justice for 'genocide' committed in the August 8-12 attack, a local presidential advisor said.
- 20:01 01/09/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on sending a Russian military contingent to Chad and the neighboring Central African Republic in support of a UN mission in the region, the Kremlin said on Monday.
- 19:42 01/09/2008
- 18:46 01/09/2008
The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, which arrived on Monday morning at the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol where Russia has a naval base, has refused to go ashore amid anti-NATO protests, customs officers said.
- 18:26 01/09/2008
- 17:41 01/09/2008
Russia may proceed with plans to sell advanced S-300 air defense systems to Iran under a secret contract believed to have been signed in 2005, a Russian analyst said on Monday.
- 17:32 01/09/2008
Russia believes an international police force should be deployed in South Ossetia to prevent further Georgian attacks, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
- 16:51 01/09/2008
- 16:40 01/09/2008
- 16:21 01/09/2008
Russia's ban on poultry imports from 19 U.S. producers came into force on Monday, sparking alarm in Washington amid rising tensions over the recent Georgia conflict.
- 16:10 01/09/2008
- 15:20 01/09/2008
Russia and Kazakhstan launched the first stage of a strategic exercise in the Chelyabinsk Region in Russia's Urals on Monday, the Ground Forces' press service said.
- 15:04 01/09/2008
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Monday he was taking steps to prevent a new standoff between the West and Russia over the recent conflict in Georgia.
