- 21:52 17/04/2009
- 21:31 17/04/2009
- 21:14 17/04/2009
- 21:02 17/04/2009
- 20:09 17/04/2009
The president of Belarus said on Friday he was committed to cooperation with the European Union, but refused to engage the country's opposition to improve relations.
- 20:06 17/04/2009
North Korea will need at least a year to resume its nuclear program and start producing weapons-grade plutonium, Russian experts said on Friday.
- 19:37 17/04/2009
Russia's ambassador to France held two hours of talks with the father of a Russian-French girl abducted by her mother and a deal is close on the extradition of Irina Belenkaya, a Russian official said on Friday.
- 19:23 17/04/2009
The former Georgian republic of Abkhazia may hold its own military exercises in response to NATO's planned drills in Georgia next month, Abkhazia's leader said on Friday.
- 17:52 17/04/2009
A potential gas deal between Russia and Azerbaijan will help diversify energy supplies and ensure energy security, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
- 17:09 17/04/2009
NATO's decision to hold exercises in Georgia next month threatens to complicate ties with Russia, the Russian president said on Friday.
- 17:04 17/04/2009
The makeup of the new Moldovan parliament was unchanged following a recount of votes from the April 5 poll, the secretary of Moldova's Central Election Commission said on Friday.
- 16:19 17/04/2009
The president of Belarus said on Friday he was committed to cooperation with the European Union, but refused to engage the country's opposition to improve relations.
- 16:10 17/04/2009
The European Commission is ready to provide funding to Italy, where 294 people were killed in a recent quake, the EU commissioner for transport said on Friday.
- 15:54 17/04/2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has expressed his hope that during the Summit of the Americas U.S. President Barack Obama will not behave like Spain's king who told him to shut up, local media reported on Friday.
- 15:41 17/04/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has described the recent mass public disorder in Moldova as "monstrous," adding that "color revolutions" result only in poverty.
- 14:34 17/04/2009
Europe may become a strategic market for biofuels for Russia, with an expected total volume of about 40 million tons annually, the CEO of the Biotechnology Corporation said Friday.
- 13:53 17/04/2009
Moldova's Prosecutor General's Office has remanded Moldovan businessman Gabriel Stati in custody on suspicion of inciting mass riots and an attempted coup, a Prosecutor General's spokeswoman said on Friday.
- 11:21 17/04/2009
Japan and the U.S. on Friday pledged $1 billion each in aid for Pakistan to try prevent the rise of extremism in the country, which has been badly hit by the global economic crisis.
- 10:27 17/04/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama has said he is waiting for Havana to make the next step to improve relations after Washington lifted curbs on visits and money sent to Cuba.
