- 22:10 17/09/2008
The Iranian foreign minister, currently visiting Georgia, said Wednesday that his country is closely following events in the Caucasus and wants Russia and Georgia to consider all possibilities to resolve their standoff. 
- 21:52 17/09/2008
Russia has successfully reestablished military-technical cooperation with African countries, which saw a decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the head of Russia's state arms exporter said on Wednesday.
- 21:27 17/09/2008
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko sharply criticized the pro-Western president on Wednesday for damaging the country's relations with Russia.
- 19:07 17/09/2008
- 17:46 17/09/2008
South Korean media have expressed doubts over the seriousness of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's illness, a conclusion reached by tracking the movements of his closest relatives.
- 17:10 17/09/2008
Georgia would be an ideal bridgehead for a U.S. invasion of Iran, Russia's NATO envoy said Wednesday.
- 16:35 17/09/2008
Russia signed friendship and cooperation treaties with South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Wednesday, promising them military and economic support.
- 16:33 17/09/2008
At least 16 people have been killed in a car bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen, national media reported on Wednesday.
- 16:29 17/09/2008
Russian warships will continue patrolling waters off the coast of Abkhazia until all U.S. ships leave the Black Sea, Russia's NATO envoy said on Wednesday.
- 16:01 17/09/2008
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that NATO's drive to strengthen ties with Georgia is effectively encouraging the Tbilisi regime to carry out new acts of aggression in the future.
- 14:46 17/09/2008
- 14:46 17/09/2008
Russia's Finance Ministry announced Wednesday measures to inject liquidity into the banking sector as Russian exchanges suspended trading after stocks plummeted amid an ongoing global credit crisis.
- 14:40 17/09/2008
Russia intends to share its space technology with Cuba, and has begun discussions on building a space center in the country, the Russian space agency said on Wednesday.
- 13:52 17/09/2008
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the speaker of Ukraine's Supreme Rada, announced his resignation Wednesday after the collapse of the country's ruling pro-Western coalition.
- 13:15 17/09/2008
Two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers have landed at an airfield near Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, to prepare for their long flight home, a Russian Air Force spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 13:10 17/09/2008
The demilitarization of space and preventing the glorification of Nazism will be top priorities for the Russian delegation at the UN General Assembly, Russia's envoy to the UN said.
- 11:07 17/09/2008
- 10:54 17/09/2008
A third baby in China has died after being fed contaminated milk powder with the number of infants ill rising to 6,244, the Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday citing the Health Ministry.
- 10:50 17/09/2008
About 1,700 people, most of them civilians, were killed in South Ossetia during Georgia's onslaught on the breakaway republic in early August, the region's top prosecutor said.
