- 22:10 23/06/2009
Moscow is unlikely to change its attitude of non-interference in the domestic situation in Iran, although it "would be great" if Russia and China put pressure on the Iranian leadership, a political scientist said on Tuesday.
- 22:08 23/06/2009
All parties, including the new Israeli government, have agreed to attend the Middle East peace conference due to be held in Moscow by the end of 2009, the Russian president said on Tuesday.
- 21:23 23/06/2009
The deployment of a planned U.S. missile defense system in Europe would greatly impede progress on strategic arms reductions, the Russian foreign minister said on Tuesday.
- 20:41 23/06/2009
One company of the Georgian Defense Ministry's second brigade will head to Afghanistan by the fall to join international security operations in the country, the ministry said Tuesday.
- 19:37 23/06/2009
Iran will soon issue a tender on constructing an oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, Deputy Oil Minister Nureddin Shahnazizadeh announced at a conference in Moscow on Tuesday.
- 19:32 23/06/2009
A Middle East peace conference is due to be held in Moscow by the end of 2009, the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev told journalists in Cairo on Tuesday.
- 19:08 23/06/2009
A court in the Turkish province of Agri has sentenced a husband convicted of abusing his wife to six months of community service planting trees, local media said on Tuesday.
- 19:04 23/06/2009
Moscow hopes international talks on Korea's nuclear problem will be resumed shortly and is waiting for Pyongyang to confirm that it will stop all nuclear tests, the Russian foreign minister said on Tuesday.
- 18:49 23/06/2009
The presidents of Russia and Egypt have signed a strategic partnership treaty to develop cooperation in the military and technical, trade and energy spheres.
- 18:36 23/06/2009
Israel released on Tuesday the Hamas speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Abdel Aziz Duwaik, paving the way for a possible release of a soldier held by Gaza militants, local media said.
- 18:17 23/06/2009
Five militants have been killed in a special operation conducted by law enforcement agencies in southern Kyrgyzstan, a republican state committee for national security said on Tuesday.
- 18:06 23/06/2009
Expanding Russian-Nigerian trade, improving global energy security and dealing with the economic crisis will be priorities at the Russian president's talks in Nigeria, a Kremlin aide said on Tuesday.
- 17:51 23/06/2009
A ransom of $1.3 million was paid to Somali pirates for the release of a Dutch vessel, the head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service said at a news conference on Tuesday.
- 17:51 23/06/2009
Moscow's proposal for a new European security treaty is not aimed against NATO or other organizations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 17:48 23/06/2009
A Russian-Venezuelan bank being set up by the two countries will have charter capital of $4 billion, with a controlling stake to be held by Russia, a deputy Russian finance minister said on Tuesday.
- 17:26 23/06/2009
A Chinese inventor has sent his patented ultrasonic flycatcher to U.S. President Barack Obama as a present, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
- 16:36 23/06/2009
An Australian pilot saved the life of his injured passenger by burying him in sand to prevent hypothermia after a helicopter crash in northern Australia, national media said on Tuesday.
- 15:13 23/06/2009
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has said Belarus must pass laws to abolish capital punishment before the county can be admitted to assembly sessions.
- 15:11 23/06/2009
Ukraine started on Tuesday a planned rotation of its peacekeeping contingent in Liberia, the Defense Ministry said.
