- 21:56 26/12/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law to ratify an agreement with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a natural gas pipeline along the Caspian coast. 
- 21:10 26/12/2008
Ukraine's 450-seat parliament approved on Friday the national budget for 2009 with a deficit of 2.96% of GDP.
- 20:49 26/12/2008
The European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) said on Friday it was concerned over the deployment by Georgia of Cobra armored vehicles in areas close to the South Ossetian and Abkhazian borders.
- 19:39 26/12/2008
Russia's Foreign Ministry has called on Guinea's politicians to display responsibility and make all efforts to reach national accord.
- 18:58 26/12/2008
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- 17:56 26/12/2008
Pakistan has deployed "fresh troops" along the international border with India to protect "vital points" on the frontier, the Press Trust of India reported on Friday, citing Pakistani military sources.
- 17:02 26/12/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko gave on Friday a special governmental working group two months to prepare proposals for the civilian use of the Sevastopol naval base after 2017.
- 16:50 26/12/2008
A shoe-throwing competition using a portrait of George Bush as the target took place on Friday in Iran's capital, Tehran, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
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Russia has received 12 orders from abroad for Mi-28N Night Hunter attack helicopters and is ready to fulfill any contracts, the head of manufacturer Russian Helicopters said on Friday.
- 14:20 26/12/2008
Almost 15,000 people were forced to flee their homes in Indonesia's Lampung province on the southern tip of the island of Sumatra, local media reported on Friday.
- 13:17 26/12/2008
Russian-Cuban relations will serve as the starting point to advance Russia's interests in the entire Latin American region, a Russian diplomat said on Friday in an interview with RIA Novosti.
- 12:35 26/12/2008
The Kazakh government issued a decree on Friday banning foreigners from visiting four areas of the country, including the city of Baikonur, which services the eponymous space center.
- 12:26 26/12/2008
Russia's Sukhoi holding, the manufacturer of the famed family of Su fighter planes, said on Friday it had delivered two Su-30MK2 Flanker multi-role fighters to Indonesia.
- 12:01 26/12/2008
The number of dead from a gas explosion in an apartment building in southern Ukraine has risen to 27, including three children, local media said on Friday.
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