- 21:59 19/06/2009
A total of 44,287 cases of human A/H1N1 infection have been registered in 95 countries worldwide, with 180 deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report on Friday.
- 21:55 19/06/2009
A U.S. navy destroyer is getting into position to intercept a flagged North Korean ship suspected of carrying weaponry or nuclear materials in defiance of a UN ban, Fox News said on Friday.
- 21:05 19/06/2009
Russia and NATO hope to resume military cooperation after high-level talks in Greece later this month, Russia's NATO envoy said Friday.
- 19:51 19/06/2009
The Chinese and Russian press distribution markets have suffered less than other global markets from the financial crisis, the vice president of the Distripress international association said Friday.
- 18:59 19/06/2009
The European Union is to give Belarus 10 million euros ($13.9 mln) in food safety aid, the European Commission reported on Friday ahead of a visit to Minsk by the EC commissioner for external affairs.
- 17:40 19/06/2009
Spanish authorities are blaming the Basque separatist group ETA for the death of a police officer in a bomb attack in the north of the country, the EFE news agency reported
- 17:34 19/06/2009
A U.S. woman was found guilty of illegally downloading 24 songs from the Internet and ordered to pay a $1.9 million fine, $80,000 for each song, CNN reported Friday.
- 17:32 19/06/2009
European Union leaders on Friday urged Iran not to clamp down on peaceful demonstrations against the country's presidential election results.
- 17:17 19/06/2009
Air France will pay an initial 17,500 euros ($24,000) to relatives of every victim of the Flight 447 crash, the airline's CEO said on Friday.
- 15:37 19/06/2009
A Georgian officer who has requested political asylum in Russia denied on Friday claims by Georgia's Interior Ministry that he was dismissed from the coast guard service in May.
- 15:28 19/06/2009
An outspoken Russian lawmaker who used offensive language in relation to a senior U.S. diplomat said on Friday he had been provoked by Georgian reporters, but would not withdraw his remarks.
- 14:27 19/06/2009
Russia is monitoring North Korea's preparations for a ballistic missile launch, but does not know when one might take place, a deputy chief of the Russian General Staff said on Friday.
- 13:42 19/06/2009
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday rejected the possibility that vote rigging affected the result of the country's presidential election.
- 13:34 19/06/2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has again urged President Barack Obama to adopt socialist principles to see the United States through the ongoing economic crisis.
- 12:10 19/06/2009
The world's oldest man, Tomoji Tanabe, died of heart failure on Friday at the age of 113 in Miyakonojo on Japan's southern island of Kyushu, national media reported on Friday.
- 12:09 19/06/2009
A French court has sentenced a woman to eight years in jail for killing three babies she gave birth to in secret, hiding two of the bodies in the freezer of her family home, local media said.
- 11:36 19/06/2009
Dubai authorities on Friday banned demonstrations by Iranian immigrants who have been protesting for four days in the Arab emirate against the presidential election results in Iran, Gulf News reported.
- 10:56 19/06/2009
Japan's parliament has passed a law on counter piracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden, expanding the Japanese Self-Defense Forces' powers in the region, the Kyodo news agency reported on Friday.
- 10:18 19/06/2009
Officials from North and South Korea held a round of talks in Seoul on Friday on the future of the Kaesong industrial park to the north of the border, the last remaining cooperation venture between the countries.
