- 21:48 10/04/2009
Tens of thousands of protesters blocked the main roads of Georgia's capital on Friday evening, in a civil disobedience campaign to force President Mikheil Saakashvili to resign. 
- 20:52 10/04/2009
Russia's foreign minister said on Friday that the country is still waiting for information from the United Arab Emirates on the March 28 shooting of a Russian army commander.
- 19:08 10/04/2009
Iraq is seeking to expand the presence of Russian companies on its market, the premier of the oil-rich country said at a meeting on Friday with his Russian counterpart.
- 18:59 10/04/2009
Georgian opposition leaders pledged on Friday to launch a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience, as thousands continued to rally in the capital, demanding President Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation.
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Some 1,000 Bolivians have joined President Evo Morales in a hunger strike to demand that the country's congress pass an electoral law ratifying a date for general elections in December.
- 16:21 10/04/2009
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Russian-Chinese military-technical cooperation totals $16 billion since 2001, but the Chinese share of Russian arms exports is decreasing, the head of Russia's arms export monopoly has said.
- 16:07 10/04/2009
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Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin asked on Friday the country's Constitutional Court to order a recount of the results of the April 5 parliamentary polls, won by his Communist Party.
- 13:45 10/04/2009
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili made it clear on Friday he would not cede to opposition demands that he resign, as protests continued in the capital.
- 12:26 10/04/2009
Russia's TVEL, a subsidiary of state-controlled nuclear power company Atomenergoprom, has delivered its first shipment of nuclear fuel for Indian heavy-water reactors, Atomenergoprom said Friday.
- 12:04 10/04/2009
The summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) opened in Thailand's resort of Pattaya on Friday amid street protests calling for the prime minister's resignation.
- 11:48 10/04/2009
Russian experts will be flown to Italy on Sunday to assist in assessing building safety in the aftermath of this week's devastating earthquake, an emergencies ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.
