| December 2008 |
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday he hoped the incoming U.S. administration would help advance Russian-American dialogue. 
Georgia wants good relations with Russia, President Mikheil Saakashvili said Friday while commenting on the Georgian Orthodox Church leader's visit to Moscow. 
EU leaders unanimously approved on Friday a package of measures to tackle the economic crisis, a climate change deal, and concessions to resolve a deadlock over the Lisbon treaty, the French president said. 
After almost 40 years without a constitution, Libya's government is working on drafting one as part of a series of major political reforms set out in 2007, Arab media reported. 
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that Israel is in its last days and this knowledge is behind recent Israeli pressure on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. 
A town in Russia's Far East was rocked on Friday by what local media say may have been copy-cat riots by gangs of youths imitating recent disturbances in Greece. 
NATO fighters have trailed two Russian strategic bombers on a patrol mission over the North Sea, a Russian Air Force spokesman said on Friday. 
A missile frigate from Russia's Northern Fleet is continuing its duty to protect commercial ships from Somali pirate attacks near the Horn of Africa, a Navy spokesman said on Friday. 
Chinese media on Friday accused Tibet's spiritual leader Dalai Lama of involvement in the deaths of opponents and religious dissidents. 
A visit by Russian warships to Nicaragua, due to start on Friday, has no political element, an aide to the Russian Navy commander said on Friday. 
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is to visit Russia on December 18-19, the Kremlin press service announced on Friday. 



