- 21:59 02/07/2009
A Palestinian girl died and several other people were wounded after an Israeli tank shell hit a residential building in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, local medics said.
- 21:14 02/07/2009
A deputy Russian foreign minister said Russia is continuing to maintain contacts with North Korea in an effort to try to bring Pyongyang to six-nation nuclear talks.
- 21:02 02/07/2009
Prominent U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz on Thursday called the terms demanded of Russia to join the World Trade Organization "outrageous" and praised Russia for standing up to the global trade body.
- 20:52 02/07/2009
Moscow will discuss a new arms reduction deal with Washington only in connection with U.S. plans for a missile shield in central Europe, the Russian prime minister's spokesman said on Thursday.
- 20:30 02/07/2009
Vladimir Putin will meet with President Barack Obama, who arrives in Moscow on his first visit next week, for talks set to focus on persisting trade hurdles, the Russian premier's spokesman said on Thursday.
- 20:03 02/07/2009
North Korea conducted four test launches of short-range missiles on Thursday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
- 18:51 02/07/2009
The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia on Thursday pay 39,757 euros in compensation to a Chechen woman whose husband went missing in 2001.
- 18:47 02/07/2009
Ukraine sold $800 mln worth of weaponry to foreign states in 2008, 14% more than the previous year, the head of the state arms exporter has said.
- 18:36 02/07/2009
Russia's natural gas production declined 20.8%, year-on-year, in January-June 2008 to 274.275 billion cubic meters while exports declined 54.55% to 45.523 billion cubic meters, the Energy Ministry said on Thursday.
- 18:24 02/07/2009
The 14-year-old girl who survived Tuesday's Yemenia Air crash off the Comoros was probably sitting in exactly the right place when the accident occurred, an aviation safety expert said on Thursday.
- 18:02 02/07/2009
Russia is opposed to sanctions against Iran over the recent crackdown on protest rallies following the disputed presidential election, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 17:12 02/07/2009
An EU expert group on gas advised EU members on Thursday to fill gas storage facilities to mitigate any potential gas cuts amid uncertainties in Ukraine, the European Commission said in a statement.
- 16:56 02/07/2009
The sole survivor of Tuesday's Yemenia Air crash off the Comoros in which 152 people are believed to have died returned home to France on Thursday, Al Jazeera reported.
- 15:56 02/07/2009
A Yemeni court has begun the trial of 22 suspected Somali pirates, a local newspaper said on Thursday.
- 15:46 02/07/2009
The Russian president said on Thursday that modernization of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier should be completed as soon as possible so that it can be delivered to India in 2012.
- 15:31 02/07/2009
North Korea has conducted two test launches of short-range missiles, a South Korean news agency reported on Thursday.
- 15:29 02/07/2009
Washington wants to build stronger ties with Russia, but is not seeking trade-offs on key disputes, a U.S. presidential adviser said ahead of a Russian-U.S. summit.
- 15:27 02/07/2009
- 15:02 02/07/2009
