- 21:07 20/03/2009
The head of Georgia's foreign intelligence service accused Moscow on Friday of trying to oust the current Georgian leader in an attempt to bring its southern neighbor under control. 
- 21:04 20/03/2009
Co-chairs of a Russian-U.S. group said in Moscow on Friday that they expected to see progress in bilateral relations at an upcoming meeting between the two countries' presidents next month in London.
- 19:31 20/03/2009
Russian Pacific Fleet aircraft have been conducting scheduled patrol exercises this week over the Sea of Japan, where U.S. Navy ships have been holding exercises, the Pacific Fleet said on Friday.
- 18:58 20/03/2009
The USS Klakring (FFG 42) frigate has entered the Black Sea, and is being closely monitored by Russia, the Russian Navy said on Friday.
- 17:20 20/03/2009
The leaders of the 27 EU member countries have approved the inclusion of Belarus in the bloc's Eastern Partnership program, the Czech prime minister's spokesman said on Friday.
- 15:50 20/03/2009
North Korea informed the South on Friday that it would reopen the countries' military communications channel, which was cut in protest against South Korean-U.S. military drills, the Yonhap news agency said.
- 15:46 20/03/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday he hoped for a real fresh start in relations with Washington after his first meeting with the new U.S. leader on April 1.
- 15:27 20/03/2009
Moscow has seen nothing to convince it that there is a military element to Iran's nuclear program, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told journalists on Friday.
- 14:14 20/03/2009
North Korea's planned launch of a rocket that it says will deliver a satellite into orbit will take place on April 4, Japanese news agency Jiji Press reported on Friday.
- 13:58 20/03/2009
Russia and the United States have every chance of reaching an agreement on a new arms reduction treaty to replace START-1 by December this year, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Friday.
- 11:40 20/03/2009
- 10:49 20/03/2009
- 10:01 20/03/2009
A Greek-owned cargo ship has been seized off the coast of Somalia, Greece's merchant marine ministry told RIA Novosti early on Friday.
- 09:45 20/03/2009
Six people were killed and four others are still missing following flooding at a coal mine in southwest China's Guizhou province early on Friday, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing local officials.
- 09:38 20/03/2009
Two U.S. astronauts have successfully completed the first spacewalk of the current Discovery shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the U.S. space agency NASA said on Friday.
- 09:17 20/03/2009
Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted on Friday to hold presidential elections in the former Soviet republic on July 23, 2009.
