| September 2008 |
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Russia will fail to attain its strategic goal of ousting the government of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, U.S. State Secretary Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. 
Members of the International Space Station Expedition 18 have successfully passed their first pre-flight tests, a spokesman for Russia's Cosmonaut Training Center said Thursday. 
Iran has completed a three-day series of Air Force and missile defense exercises throughout the country, the Air Force commander said Thursday. 
Iran is undaunted by the possibility of new UN sanctions over its ongoing nuclear program, the country's president said on Thursday.

Moscow and Kiev will discuss the issue of Russia's Black Sea Fleet base in Ukraine by the end of September, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. 
Companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream undersea pipeline project will submit an assessment of the environmental impact on the Baltic Sea in October, Germany's ex-chancellor said Thursday.

Moscow is concerned by the refusal of certain OSCE members to continue talks on the mission of extra military observers to be deployed in Georgia, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. 
Iran is undaunted by the possibility of new UN sanctions over its ongoing nuclear program, the country's president said on Thursday. 
A new round of consultations on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization will start on November 3, the country's top negotiator said Thursday
A U.S. research ship with alleged intelligence gathering capabilities has left Ukrainian territorial waters and is heading toward the Mediterranean, a Ukrainian news agency reported on Thursday. 
Companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream undersea pipeline project will submit an assessment of the environmental impact on the Baltic Sea in October, Germany's ex-chancellor said Thursday. 
Russia and the United States can fashion a constructive dialogue regardless of their differences on some international issues, the Russian president said Thursday. 
A donkey from the northeast Egyptian city of Tanta has been sentenced to 24 hours in jail for stealing corn from a field owned by a local agricultural research center, the Al-Ahram weekly said on Thursday. 



