- 21:57 09/06/2009
The United States will maintain close relations with Israel despite current differences over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the president's special envoy to the region said Tuesday.
- 21:43 09/06/2009
The world's largest emerging economies known under the acronym BRIC are unlikely to form an influential organization due to major differences in their economies and culture, a leading Russian economist said on Tuesday.
- 21:42 09/06/2009
Russia has expanded its list of banned food products from Belarus to include most dairy products, the head of Russia's consumer rights regulator said Tuesday.
- 21:25 09/06/2009
A delegation of 41 European Parliament members arrived in Gaza on Tuesday to study the situation in the war-torn Palestinian enclave.
- 20:59 09/06/2009
Air France has said it will replace all of airspeed monitors in its A330s and A340s in the next few days over concerns that faulty instruments may have caused last week's crash in the Atlantic.
- 20:17 09/06/2009
Could the two imprisoned American journalists become pawns in a political game of Pyongyang? What steps should we expect from Washington? RIA Novosti sought the opinion of Dr. James L. Schoff, Associate Director of Asia-Pacific Studies at The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis.
- 19:59 09/06/2009
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko has been chosen as a candidate for the post of UNESCO director general, the organization said in a press release.
- 19:56 09/06/2009
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan intend to join the WTO as a single customs union, not individually, the Russian prime minister said on Tuesday.
- 19:53 09/06/2009
Russia welcomes Lebanese political factions' efforts to cooperate to build a stable government, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
- 19:41 09/06/2009
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday he was "appalled" by a recent surge in "racist" attacks on Indian students in Australia.
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- 18:45 09/06/2009
Russia's sexual minorities plan to gather in Moscow in favor of same-sex unions during U.S. President Barack Obama's visit on July 7, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported on Tuesday.
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- 18:03 09/06/2009
A domestic company's purchase of the GM's gas-guzzling Hummer brand goes against China's environmental policies, Xinhua agency said on Tuesday citing an official with the cabinet's Development Research Center.
- 18:02 09/06/2009
At least three people were killed and another 39, most of them civilians, wounded in an explosion in east Afghanistan early on Tuesday, a local police chief said.
- 17:58 09/06/2009
Russia's federal budget deficit increased in May by 140.9 billion rubles ($4.5 billion), to reach 511 billion rubles ($16.3 billion) for the first five months of the year, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday.
- 17:53 09/06/2009
Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin suggested on Tuesday that Eurasec's anti-crisis fund could be used to grant Belarus a $500 million loan.
- 17:35 09/06/2009
A U.S. analyst said he was satisfied with Lebanon's election results which demonstrated a maturing electorate, but voiced his concern that the Hezbollah movement remained a threat in the country.
- 17:29 09/06/2009
The main challenger in the Iranian presidential elections has promised to uncover what the current president's administration did with some $1 billion reportedly missing from state funds.
