- 21:56 11/12/2008
A court in Greece has given a 20-year-old man labeled one of the instigators of the riots that have shaken the country for the past week a one-year suspended sentence, the Athens news agency said on Thursday. 
- 21:13 11/12/2008
The main Serbian opponent of an agreement to sell Russian energy giant Gazprom's oil arm 51% of Serbia's state-owned NIS for $528 million is resigning as head of the working group dealing with the contract.
- 21:08 11/12/2008
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had a stroke, but did not undergo surgery and is now feeling better, the French doctor who treated him in Pyongyang said on Thursday.
- 20:20 11/12/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev refused to rule out on Thursday the possibility of Russia joining OPEC, and also said the country may cut oil production to regulate prices.
- 19:29 11/12/2008
Russia marked on Thursday what would have been the 90th birthday of Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn with a series of events, including the opening of website dedicated to his work.
- 19:08 11/12/2008
Russia will complete heating oil deliveries to North Korea within the next several months, the head of the Russian delegation at six-party talks on Korea's nuclear problem said on Thursday.
- 18:59 11/12/2008
Verification of North Korea's nuclear program should be in line with UN nuclear watchdog standards and the nonproliferation regime, the head of the Russian delegation at six-party talks said Thursday.
- 18:35 11/12/2008
LUKoil plans to develop the Junin-3 oil deposit in Venezuela on its own, the vice-president of Russia's largest independent crude producer said on Thursday.
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One person was killed and 12 injured in a fire that broke out at a market in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Thursday, Imedi TV said.
The blaze broke out in the morning in a
- 17:38 11/12/2008
Russia's foreign minister said on Thursday during a TV interview that he was certain that Hillary Clinton would be easier for Russia to work with than her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will not attend a world summit of Nobel Peace Prize winners he was due to preside over as he has undergone eye surgery, his foundation said on Thursday.
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A Russian lawmaker and a presidential envoy on Arctic and Antarctic international cooperation said on Thursday that Russia would not cede its right to Arctic shelf exploration to any other state.
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Gazprom's CEO has warned Ukraine that delays in repaying its debt for Russian natural gas deliveries could have serious negative consequences, the Russian energy giant said on Thursday.
- 15:45 11/12/2008
Four days of international negotiations in Beijing on North Korea's denuclearization process ended on Wednesday with no deal reached.
