- 14:52 05/02/2009
A Ford factory near Russia's second city of St. Petersburg intends to stick to its plans for capacity expansion and will start rolling out Ford Mondeo cars in March, a top city official said Thursday. 
- 14:45 05/02/2009
Turkish President Abdullah Gul will next week become the first Turkish head of state to pay an official visit to Russia, a source in the Turkish Embassy in Moscow said on Thursday.
- 13:55 05/02/2009
Finland could give its backing to the Nord Stream project to build a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea to deliver Russian gas directly to Germany, the Finnish foreign minister said on Thursday.
- 13:44 05/02/2009
Kyrgyzstan's parliament could vote on the closure of a U.S. military base next week, a senior Kyrgyz lawmaker said on Thursday.
- 13:23 05/02/2009
Russia's Foreign Ministry expressed its satisfaction on Thursday over the release by Somali pirates of the Ukrainian Faina cargo ship and its crew.
- 12:44 05/02/2009
Israeli special forces killed a 21-year-old Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander at his home in the West Bank, an Israeli Army spokesman said.
- 11:39 05/02/2009
Somali pirates have begun leaving the Faina after receiving a ransom for the Ukrainian cargo ship seized in September, a Russian maritime news website editor said on Thursday.
- 11:24 05/02/2009
Three birds that were found dead on a beach on Hong Kong's largest island have tested positive for bird flu, regional radio said on Thursday, citing local authorities.
- 11:23 05/02/2009
Russia's international reserves holding foreign currency and gold increased by $1.6 billion to $388.1 billion in the week of January 23-30, the Central Bank of Russia said on Thursday.
- 10:57 05/02/2009
The presidents of Russia and Bulgaria will discuss new oil and gas pipelines and European energy security in the wake of gas supply disruptions last month when they meet in the Kremlin on Thursday.
- 10:45 05/02/2009
Consumer prices in Russia grew 2.4% in January, the country's top statistics body said on Thursday.
- 10:02 05/02/2009
The Chinese security agency on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for a man suspected of masterminding the sale of fake diabetes drugs that killed two people and poisoned several others, Xinhua said.
