- 22:01 18/06/2009
A tanker carrying about 1,800 tons of crude oil and 100 tons of diesel fuel has exploded near the Vietnamese coast and sunk, the Sovfracht Maritime Bulletin reported Thursday.
- 21:51 18/06/2009
- 21:25 18/06/2009
The European Union on Thursday called on Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz to reach a long-term agreement on secure natural gas supplies.
- 21:14 18/06/2009
Injuries found during autopsies performed on passengers killed in an Air France A330 crash suggest the plane could have broken up in midair.
- 21:03 18/06/2009
The leaders of the 27-member states of the EU gathered on Thursday to open the two-day summer summit in Brussels with housekeeping issues high on the agenda.
- 19:14 18/06/2009
A Georgian military officer who crossed into Abkhazia in May has asked Russia for political asylum, the Federal Migration Service said Thursday.
- 19:05 18/06/2009
A cruise ship that was quarantined off Venezuela's coast following an outbreak of the A/H1N1 infection on board left Venezuela on Thursday, the country's Nacional newspaper said, citing the vessel's owner.
- 18:32 18/06/2009
Tens of thousands of supporters of Iranian presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi gathered in central Tehran on Thursday to mourn those dead in post-election protests.
- 18:03 18/06/2009
Mexican Navy officers have seized 893 kilograms (1,968 pounds) of cocaine that was stuffed into 30 frozen shark carcasses bound for the United States, Dive magazine reported
- 17:53 18/06/2009
Four Russian students were deported from Egypt on Thursday, but two others had some extra time in the country after missing the flight, a Russian Embassy official said.
- 16:31 18/06/2009
Ukrainian state-controlled arms export-import company Ukrspetsexport said on Thursday it had nothing to do with an arms shipment seized in Nigeria.
- 16:12 18/06/2009
A single armed gunman in northern India has held off some 500 police for two days, killing four officers and injuring several others, Sahara Samay television reported on Thursday.
- 15:59 18/06/2009
The Guardian Council, Iran's top legislative body, will consider on Saturday complaints filed by opposition candidates in last week's disputed presidential election, national media reported.
- 15:48 18/06/2009
It is hard to find two other top leaders who would meet more often than those of
Russia and China.
- 14:56 18/06/2009
MegaFon, Russia's third largest mobile operator, said on Thursday its U.S. GAAP net profit grew 20.2% year-on-year in January-March 2009 to 11.13 billion rubles ($358 million).
- 14:51 18/06/2009
The mayor of the Turkish resort city Antalya has launched an investigation into the construction of a luxury hotel owned by Russian billionaire Telman Ismailov, national media said on Thursday.
- 14:51 18/06/2009
A U.S. court will arraign a man on Thursday for dressing like his deceased mother to receive thousands of dollars in Social Security benefits and rent subsidies, the New York Post reported.
- 14:37 18/06/2009
A naval task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet will pay an official visit to Vietnam from June 19 to 23, a spokesman for the fleet said on Thursday.
- 14:11 18/06/2009
Iranian presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi has called on his supporters to hold a day of mourning on Thursday for those killed in post-election protests.
