- 21:48 13/07/2009
The international community should recognize Nagorny Karabakh as an independent state, the president of the disputed region said Monday in an exclusive interview with RIA Novosti.
- 21:18 13/07/2009
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has proposed holding a second round of talks on the settlement of the Honduras crisis next week.
- 19:52 13/07/2009
Israelis and Palestinians do not need any outside help to end their conflict, which will be resolved only if the two sides are left alone, a Russian expert on the Middle East said on Monday.
- 19:37 13/07/2009
Kazakhstan is not opposed to the possible opening of a new Russian military base in Kyrgyzstan and welcomes measures to strengthen security in the region, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said Monday.
- 18:49 13/07/2009
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili called on Monday his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev's visit to South Ossetia "immoral" and "despicable."
- 18:43 13/07/2009
Italian justices of the peace went on strike on Monday over dissatisfaction with working conditions, the Italian ANSA news agency reported.
- 18:10 13/07/2009
Winds blowing in from Iraq will carry about 2 billion tons of sandy dust to the Arabian Peninsula during the next week, the Ar-Raya newspaper said on Monday, quoting Saudi Arabian meteorologists.
- 17:18 13/07/2009
Prosecutors in Germany formally charged Nazi suspect John Demjanjuk on Monday with helping to murder 27,900 people during World War II, national media said.
- 16:57 13/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in South Ossetia on Monday on his first visit to the former Georgian republic, recognized as independent by Russia last August.
- 16:50 13/07/2009
Russia will rotate its peacekeeping battalion in Moldova's breakaway region of Transdnestr between July 17 and 25, Commander Col. Anatoly Zverev said on Monday.
- 16:34 13/07/2009
Media reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is seriously ill and will soon cede power to his son should be treated with caution, a Russian expert on North Korea said Monday.
- 16:33 13/07/2009
Gazprom's adjusted investment program for 2009 is worth 775 billion rubles ($23.5 billion), Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
- 15:39 13/07/2009
Five of the six parties to the Nabucco gas pipeline project signed on Monday an intergovernmental agreement on the transit of Caspian gas to Europe, skirting Russia.
- 15:20 13/07/2009
The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights will consider a complaint from jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the fall this year, the Russian justice minister said on Monday.
- 15:09 13/07/2009
At least 11 people died and dozens were wounded as a bomb exploded in an Islamic school in Pakistan's second largest province of Punjab on Monday, national media said.
- 15:01 13/07/2009
Congo authorities want Russian mini-subs involved in deep-water research into Siberia's Lake Baikal to assist in a study of Lake Tanganyika, a senior official for Russia's Metropol investment company in Congo said.
- 14:44 13/07/2009
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has announced that he will dissolve parliament next week, with elections scheduled for August 30, the Kyodo News agency reported on Monday.
- 13:47 13/07/2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called on the United States to withdraw its "gringo" troops from its airbase in Honduras to protest the recent coup in the Central American state.
- 13:39 13/07/2009
The death toll in ethnic clashes in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region a week ago may climb to 258, China Daily reported on Monday.
