- 22:21 23/10/2008
Georgia's parliament adopted an appeal to friendly parliaments and international organizations to force Russia to withdraw its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent republics. 
- 22:13 23/10/2008
Checks on North Korea's denuclearization will be carried out jointly by the countries involved in the six-party talks on the issue and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a Russian senior official said.
- 22:10 23/10/2008
- 21:59 23/10/2008
A deputy Georgian foreign minister denied on Thursday Russia's accusations that Georgia is not meeting its commitments on troop withdrawal following the conflict over South Ossetia.
- 20:48 23/10/2008
Ukraine has reiterated its position that it will not permit an extension of Russia's naval presence at its Sevastopol base after 2017, the country's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 20:41 23/10/2008
Archaeologists in northern Greece have discovered a farmhouse thought to date back 6,000 years containing crockery and wood-fired ovens, the country's Culture Ministry said on Thursday.
- 20:31 23/10/2008
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A South Korean government official said Thursday it would be counterproductive to exclude Japan from the six-way negotiations on North Korea's denuclearization.
- 20:15 23/10/2008
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A Russian political analyst said on Thursday that a win for Illinois Senator Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential elections on November 4 is a "foregone conclusion," and would be good for Russia.
- 19:47 23/10/2008
Russia's Security Council chief, Nikolai Patrushev, said in New Delhi on Thursday that Russia is India's most important strategic partner.
- 18:34 23/10/2008
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro called the newly-built Russian Orthodox cathedral, which opened in Havana on Sunday, "an honor" for the Caribbean island.
- 18:31 23/10/2008
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) plans to invest $975 million in Georgia in 2008-2010, the bank said on Thursday.
- 18:29 23/10/2008
Russia's Air Force is ready to send a helicopter group with more than 100 servicemen to Chad, the Air Force commander said Thursday.
- 18:24 23/10/2008
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- 17:31 23/10/2008
The manufacturer of Kalashnikov assault rifles has sent the first shipment of equipment to Venezuela for the licensed production of AK-103 rifles, the company said on Thursday.
- 17:27 23/10/2008
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Syria will host an international conference in Damascus in mid-November to discuss the global financial crisis and its affect on Arab economies, the official SANA news agency said.
