- 19:12 07/06/2009
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said the United States needs to carry out far-reaching reforms if it is to successfully meet modern social, economic and environmental challenges.
- 16:34 07/06/2009
The Russian Agricultural Bank increased the volume of credit to grain producers by 65% year-on-year as of June 1, the bank's CEO said on Sunday.
- 15:58 07/06/2009
Egypt's top prosecutor has ordered an import company to return a large delivery of wheat purchased from Russia and reimburse the state, the Egyptian news agency MENA reported on Sunday.
- 15:38 07/06/2009
The Russian Agricultural Bank, the country's largest state-run banking institution extending loans to domestic agribusiness, could place an additional $1 billion in Eurobonds, the bank's CEO said on Sunday.
- 14:54 07/06/2009
Russia could set up joint ventures with other countries for the development of unused arable land, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Sunday.
- 14:54 07/06/2009
- 14:53 07/06/2009
Brazilian search teams have found two male bodies from the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic last week, and are continuing to search a large area of the ocean.
- 14:14 07/06/2009
Russia could use its grain intervention fund to provide humanitarian aid to countries facing starvation amid the global economic crisis, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Sunday.
- 13:51 07/06/2009
The Iran-backed Islamist group Hezbollah is seeking to defeat the pro-Western government in Sunday's closely contested election in Lebanon.
- 12:44 07/06/2009
Russian intends to increase its grain exports from 20 million metric tons in 2009 to 40-50 million metric tons in 10-15 years, the Russian agriculture minister said on Sunday.
- 11:26 07/06/2009
- 10:44 07/06/2009
The death toll in a fire that swept through a state-run nursery in north-western Mexico has risen to 38, with 15 more in a critical condition, Mexican health officials said on Sunday.
