- 21:36 18/02/2009
The Russian Navy has handed over to Yemen 10 Somali pirates detained several days ago off the Horn of Africa, Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo told RIA Novosti on Wednesday. 
- 21:10 18/02/2009
British Ministry of Defense documents were stolen from a lawyer for a private law firm while she traveled on a train, British TV channel Sky News said on Wednesday.
- 20:27 18/02/2009
Russia regards threats by the Ukrainian authorities to expel its ambassador as another attempt to damage bilateral ties, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
- 20:15 18/02/2009
An operation to evacuate 74 passengers from a stranded cruise liner has began off the coast of Antarctica, a spokesman for the Argentinean navy said on Wednesday.
- 19:59 18/02/2009
Talks on reestablishing political unity among all the Palestinian factions scheduled for February 22 in Cairo have been postponed, the Egyptian MENA news agency reported on Wednesday.
- 19:43 18/02/2009
Javier Solana will arrive in Minsk on Thursday to meet with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a spokesman for the European Union foreign policy chief said on Wednesday.
- 19:33 18/02/2009
Sudan has begun to make its first steps toward a settlement in Darfur by signing a peace declaration with the region's largest rebel group, the Russian president's envoy for Sudan said on Wednesday.
- 18:23 18/02/2009
- 17:18 18/02/2009
Iranian scientists have developed an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of reaching Israel, an Iranian news agency said on Wednesday, citing a senior military official.
- 16:50 18/02/2009
Authorities in Ukraine's city of Dnepropetrovsk have filed a lawsuit against gas company Naftogaz for cutting off heating supplies over alleged debts, the city mayor said on Wednesday.
- 16:26 18/02/2009
Russia regards threats by the Ukrainian authorities to expel its ambassador as another attempt to damage bilateral ties, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
- 15:38 18/02/2009
- 15:28 18/02/2009
Gazprom is continuing to regard Europe as its main natural gas market in the mid term, the CEO of the Russian energy giant said on Wednesday.
- 15:15 18/02/2009
- 14:29 18/02/2009
Russia will deliver a fourth Tu-204 medium-haul airplane to Cuba in March, the United Aircraft Corporation said on Wednesday.
- 14:26 18/02/2009
- 14:21 18/02/2009
Demonstrators burnt on Wednesday an Uncle Sam dummy during a protest against plans to open a U.S. diplomatic office in Simferopol, the capital of the Ukrainian autonomous republic of Crimea.
- 12:55 18/02/2009
The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a claim against the Russian government filed by the liquidated oil firm Yukos is partially acceptable, a business paper reported on Wednesday.
- 12:44 18/02/2009
