- 21:59 10/12/2008
An armored vehicle carrying OSCE monitors came under fire near Georgia's border with South Ossetia on Wednesday, no one was injured, European officials said. 
- 21:58 10/12/2008
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Wednesday that the recent formation of a parliamentary coalition has put an end to a political crisis in the country.
- 21:21 10/12/2008
The leader of the main opposition party in Greece on Wednesday appealed for an end to the violence in the country over the recent killing of a teenager by police.
- 21:02 10/12/2008
- 20:17 10/12/2008
- 20:03 10/12/2008
The Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, medicine, economic sciences and literature are to be honored at a ceremony in Stockholm that started on Wednesday.
- 18:37 10/12/2008
Belarus's parliament will consider Abkhazia and South Ossetia's requests for official recognition in the first half of 2009, a Belarusian lawmaker said on Wednesday.
- 18:16 10/12/2008
A Proton-M carrier rocket with a Ciel 2 Canadian telecommunications satellite on board was launched on Wednesday from the Baikonur space center Russia leases from Kazakhstan.
- 18:06 10/12/2008
Russia is in the process of withdrawing almost all its tanks from the Kaliningrad exclave, which borders NATO members Poland and Lithuania, the chief of the General Staff said on Wednesday.
- 17:14 10/12/2008
Russia is ready to take part in a project to build a gas pipeline linking Bolivia and Argentina, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
- 17:10 10/12/2008
- 17:06 10/12/2008
Thousands took to the streets of the Greek capital on Wednesday as a nationwide strike brought the country, which has been hit by mass riots following the fatal shooting of a teenager by police, to a halt.
- 17:03 10/12/2008
Kazakhstan is prepared to host an OSCE summit when the country chairs the organization in 2010, the country's president has announced.
- 16:31 10/12/2008
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said up to 60,000 people could be infected with cholera in Zimbabwe in the wake of the country's worst epidemic in decades.
- 16:27 10/12/2008
The deployment of a U.S. missile shield in central Europe would disrupt the strategic balance among the world's nuclear powers, the Russian defense minister said on Wednesday.
- 16:18 10/12/2008
Three days of international negotiations in Beijing on North Korea's denuclearization process were broken off on Wednesday after the parties failed to make progress, the chief U.S. negotiator said.
- 16:08 10/12/2008
Russia is concerned over Georgian moves to escalate tensions in the Caucasus, but will not under any circumstances invade the country, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Wednesday.
- 15:46 10/12/2008
The Somali ambassador to Moscow said on Wednesday that Ukraine and all sides involved in negotiations to free ships seized off the east African coast need to cooperate with the Somali authorities.
- 15:20 10/12/2008
The president of the separatist province attacked by Georgia in August has told a Russian newspaper that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili tried several years ago to win his loyalty with a large bribe.
