- 22:20 24/06/2009
Russia and Nigeria signed six agreements on cooperation, including in the natural gas and space spheres, following talks between the two countries' presidents, Dmitry Medvedev and Umaru Yar'Adua, on Wednesday.
- 22:02 24/06/2009
Turkmenistan will supply up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China for 30 years as soon as it commissions a pipeline at the end of 2009, the ex-Soviet republic's president said on Wednesday.
- 21:37 24/06/2009
The issue of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a trilateral customs union member alongside Belarus and Kazakhstan remains unclear, the WTO head said on Wednesday.
- 21:28 24/06/2009
Iran's foreign and domestic policies will become less uncompromising during President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second term, the head of the Modern Iran Study Center said Wednesday.
- 20:34 24/06/2009
Another rally in the Iranian capital Tehran was brutally put down on Wednesday, according to unofficial Twitter reports.
- 20:19 24/06/2009
Russia's lower house of parliament adopted a statement on Wednesday declaring peace treaty talks with Japan pointless unless Tokyo cancels amendments to a law on the disputed Kuril Islands.
- 19:22 24/06/2009
Serbia has sent Bulgaria an official request to extradite former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku, who is wanted for alleged war crimes, Serbian Justice Minister Snezana Malovic said on Wednesday.
- 18:37 24/06/2009
Mass protests in Iran over alleged electoral fraud will not affect Russia's work on the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, a source in Rosatom said on Wednesday.
- 18:37 24/06/2009
Russia could sell up to 40 fourth-generation diesel-electric submarines to foreign customers by 2015, state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.
- 18:05 24/06/2009
The Kyrgyz parliament approved on Wednesday a deal allowing the U.S. to continue using its Manas airbase for supply and troop transits to Afghanistan.
- 18:01 24/06/2009
Russia's lower house of parliament confirmed on Wednesday Sergei Ignatyev as chairman of the Central Bank for a new four-year term.
- 17:27 24/06/2009
Between 200 and 300 inmates of Belgium prisons will be granted early release due to forecast hot weather that could provoke unrest in prisons, Belgium media reported on Wednesday.
- 17:09 24/06/2009
French Total and Russian independent gas producer Novatek are expected to implement a $1 billion project to develop a gas condensate project in northwest Siberia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
- 15:57 24/06/2009
Pope Benedict XVI will receive U.S. President Barack Obama in the Vatican on July 10, the Catholic News Service, an American information agency, said
- 15:36 24/06/2009
Ukraine's presidential election campaign is due to start on September 19, the country's election authorities said
- 15:32 24/06/2009
Chinese software developers that created a government-ordered program to filter internet content on all computers have received death threats, Chinese state media reported
- 14:37 24/06/2009
Russia's unmanned Progress M-02M cargo spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on June 30 and later be dropped into the Pacific, mission control said
- 13:27 24/06/2009
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday said he has no plans to take part in a G8 meeting on Afghanistan in Italy this week, the ISNA news agency reported.
- 13:12 24/06/2009
Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Wednesday there were no grounds for reviewing natural gas supply and transit contracts with Ukraine.
