- 21:36 18/12/2008
Belarus has no plans to respond to U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense system in Central Europe, President Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday. 
- 21:22 18/12/2008
Russia hopes to conclude a new cooperation agreement with the European Union in two or three years, a deputy foreign minister said Thursday.
- 20:40 18/12/2008
- 20:18 18/12/2008
A new round of talks on the disputed Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia will be held in Geneva on February 17-18, a European Union envoy said on Thursday.
- 20:16 18/12/2008
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday he would discuss next year's price for Russian gas supplies and other issues at talks with his Russian counterpart next Monday.
- 20:14 18/12/2008
North Korea said on Thursday it had arrested a spy who attempted to kill leader Kim Jong-il on orders from South Korea's intelligence agency.
- 19:17 18/12/2008
The Faina, a Ukrainian ship captured by Somali pirates in September, may be released by Christmas, a Ukrainian news agency reported on Thursday.
- 18:57 18/12/2008
Russia and Nicaragua concluded several bilateral agreements after talks between presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Daniel Ortega in Moscow on Thursday.
- 18:16 18/12/2008
Capital outflow from Russia is expected to continue, and hit $90-91 billion next year, a deputy economics minister said on Thursday.
- 18:07 18/12/2008
Foreign intelligence services continue to try to obtain classified information on the Sevmash shipyard in Russia's northern Arkhangelsk Region, a senior FSB official said on Thursday.
- 17:33 18/12/2008
- 17:18 18/12/2008
Britain will end its military operations in Iraq by May 31 next year, the country's prime minister announced on Thursday during a parliamentary session.
- 16:57 18/12/2008
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Thursday that he entirely supported Russia's position on South Ossetia and Abkhazia and planned to visit the disputed Georgian republics in the near future.
- 16:44 18/12/2008
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- 16:30 18/12/2008
Gazprom may halt natural gas supplies to Ukraine from the start of next year over the country's failure to repay a more than $2 billion gas debt, a spokesman for the Russian energy giant said on Thursday.
- 16:22 18/12/2008
- 16:12 18/12/2008
The Indian Navy successfully launched a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile on Thursday from a mobile platform in the Bay of Bengal.
- 16:00 18/12/2008
