- 21:39 16/06/2009
Uzbekistan has halved natural gas supplies to Tajikistan over arrears, a Tajik gas transit company executive said on Tuesday. 
- 20:56 16/06/2009
North Korea has said that the two U.S. journalists sentenced last week to a labor camp have admitted to shooting a "smear" video on human rights in the country, the Yonhap news agency reported.
- 20:48 16/06/2009
The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) supported energy dialogue and boosting power sector investment after the first BRIC summit, held in Russia's Urals city of Yekaterinburg on Tuesday.
- 19:52 16/06/2009
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has pardoned 58 prisoners, the chairwoman of the state pardon commission said on Tuesday.
- 19:41 16/06/2009
The launch of Russia's modernized Soyuz-ST carrier rocket from the Kourou space center in French Guiana has been put off until the first half of 2010, the director of a space design bureau said on Tuesday.
- 19:16 16/06/2009
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has released a disc of Russian love songs in memory of the 10th anniversary of his wife's death, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said on Tuesday.
- 17:54 16/06/2009
The leaders of Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries backed on Tuesday Russia's proposal on using national currencies in mutual settlements and introducing a common currency for the group.
- 17:54 16/06/2009
More energetic efforts by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in implementing joint economic and energy projects will strengthen security in Central Asia
- 17:28 16/06/2009
Palestinian militants failed in an attempt to assassinate former U.S. president Jimmy Carter during his visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported.
- 16:56 16/06/2009
Georgia's destructive position was responsible for the withdrawal of the UN mission in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone, the chairman of the Russian lower house's international committee said Tuesday.
- 16:43 16/06/2009
An explosion at a coal mine in Indonesia's West Sumatra province has killed at least five people and injured another 10, Xinhua said on Tuesday.
- 16:34 16/06/2009
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday that two German women who were among nine foreigners kidnapped in Yemen last week are probably dead, ZDF television reported.
- 16:30 16/06/2009
Russian and Chinese business representatives signed about 40 contracts worth $3 billion at a business forum in Moscow on Tuesday.
- 16:24 16/06/2009
The leaders of Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries strongly backed efforts to agree a new Russia-U.S. arms control treaty in a declaration at the end of their two-day summit on Tuesday.
- 16:19 16/06/2009
Russia's Pacific Fleet will send a third task force later this month to protect shipping routes from Somali pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden, a fleet commander said on Tuesday.
- 16:18 16/06/2009
Russia's president, hosting the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Urals, said on Tuesday that the group considers recent threats made by North Korea to be unacceptable.
- 16:05 16/06/2009
Sex-segregated subway carriages could be introduced in Beijing to prevent sexual assaults on women during rush hours, the Zhongguo Xinwenshe news agency reported on Tuesday.
- 16:00 16/06/2009
Japan on Tuesday unilaterally imposed sanctions on North Korea, halting all trade with the secretive state in reaction to its recent nuclear test, the Kyodo news agency reported.
- 15:33 16/06/2009
Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and Avialeasing announced on Tuesday that they had signed a $715 million contract for the delivery of 24 Sukhoi Superjet 100 airliners in 2011-2013.
