- 22:02 16/12/2008
The UN Security Council adopted on Tuesday a resolution on the Middle East peace process for the first time in five years. 
- 22:01 16/12/2008
The death toll in a bus crash in southern Israel has risen to 30, a spokeswoman for the Russian Embassy in Israel said on Tuesday.
- 20:59 16/12/2008
Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz have yet to make progress in talks on natural gas deliveries to Ukraine in 2009 and the settlement of the country's 2008 debt, the Russian energy giant said on Tuesday.
- 20:51 16/12/2008
Despite the recent positive tendency in Russian-U.K. relations, bilateral ties remain far too fragile, the Russian ambassador to Britain said on Tuesday.
- 20:46 16/12/2008
- 19:46 16/12/2008
The death toll in a tourist bus crash in southern Israel has been put at 23, a spokesman for local paramedics said on Tuesday.
- 19:12 16/12/2008
The Russian ambassadors to South Ossetia and Abkhazia presented their credentials on Tuesday to the presidents of the two breakaway republics.
- 19:01 16/12/2008
Pope Benedict XVI may visit Jordan on May 8 and Israel on May 11-15 next year, Italy's Il Foglio newspaper said on Tuesday.
- 18:58 16/12/2008
Russian arms exports in 2008 have been worth over $8 billion, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday.
- 18:16 16/12/2008
The death toll in a tourist bus crash in southern Israel near the Red Sea resort city of Eilat has risen to 24, a local TV channel said on Tuesday.
- 18:10 16/12/2008
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- 17:20 16/12/2008
State-controlled Russian Venture Company (RVC) has pooled together 15.9 billion rubles ($576 million) in venture capital funds despite the ongoing financial crisis, the RVC General Director said on Tuesday.
- 17:17 16/12/2008
The owners of a Saudi supertanker seized by Somali pirates in November have agreed to pay a ransom for its release, a Saudi newspaper said on Tuesday, citing a participant close to negotiations.
- 16:59 16/12/2008
Russia will supply Lebanon with 10 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters, Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said on Tuesday after a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov.
- 16:52 16/12/2008
A senior Russian military official expressed concern on Tuesday about what he said were U.S. plans to set up military bases in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
- 16:39 16/12/2008
India froze talks with Pakistan on the normalization of relations following bloody terrorist attack in Mumbai last month, the Indian foreign minister said on Tuesday.
- 16:03 16/12/2008
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