- 21:42 17/07/2009
The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev, met in Moscow on Friday to discuss the Nagorny Karabakh conflict.
- 21:01 17/07/2009
Participants in Friday's international talks with Ukraine on providing the country with a loan for natural gas purchases are optimistic that a deal can be reached, Russia's envoy to the EU said.
- 20:14 17/07/2009
Russia supports continued dialogue to solve Lebanon's domestic disputes, taking into account the interests of all Lebanese people, Russia's special envoy to the Middle East said on Friday.
- 17:51 17/07/2009
Thousands of supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi demonstrated in Tehran on Friday after a powerful cleric delivered a sermon casting doubt on the recent election.
- 17:37 17/07/2009
Pope Benedict XVI has successfully undergone an operation on his injured right wrist, local media said on Friday.
- 17:34 17/07/2009
A four-hectare floating island in a reservoir shared by Russia and Estonia was destroyed on Friday, after it approached high-voltage cables leading to a hydropower plant, a local power utility said.
- 17:34 17/07/2009
The OSCE secretary general said on Friday that Armenia and Azerbaijan should make concessions based on the principles set out by the Minsk Group to settle the Nagorny Karabakh conflict.
- 17:17 17/07/2009
A U.S. construction equipment maker has agreed to pay over $40,000 in extra compensation to redundant workers at a plant in southwest France, after they threatened to blow up equipment, the factory's labor union said.
- 16:52 17/07/2009
The crash of an Iranian Tu-154 passenger plane on Wednesday could have been caused by a pilot error, an Armenian civil aviation official said on Friday.
- 16:44 17/07/2009
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has called allegations that he was responsible for the murder of human rights activist Natalya Estemirova "unethical."
- 14:09 17/07/2009
Pope Benedict XVI was hospitalized on Friday after injuring his ankle and wrist while on vacation in Aosta in northern Italy, ANSA news agency reported.
- 13:23 17/07/2009
At least two people have died and at least six were injured during the collapse of the stage being built for pop idol Madonna's Sticky and Sweet world tour in Marseilles, France, tour organizers said on Friday.
- 13:02 17/07/2009
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has called on the United States to withdraw its troops from Honduras to ease the situation following the recent coup in the Central American state.
- 12:43 17/07/2009
At least nine people were killed and 50 wounded early on Friday in two near-simultaneous blasts in the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta.
- 11:20 17/07/2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has named Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's former envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as the country's new nuclear chief, state media said on Friday.
- 10:55 17/07/2009
Ten mountain climbers have died after they were caught in strong winds and rain on northern Japanese mountain ranges, the NHK TV channel reported on Friday.
- 10:02 17/07/2009
At least nine people were killed and 50 wounded early on Friday in two near-simultaneous blasts in the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, police said.
- 09:18 17/07/2009
Palestinian militants based in the Gaza Strip fired rockets at Israel for the first time in just over a month, the Israeli military has said.
