- 21:21 20/07/2009
Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to establish a regional human rights commission at a meeting on Thailand's tourist resort of Phuket, ASEAN said in a statement on Monday.
- 20:32 20/07/2009
A former Iranian president and prominent leader of the country's reformist movement has called for a referendum as a means of overcoming the current political crisis in Iran, Al-Jazeera reported on Monday.
- 16:45 20/07/2009
The trial of Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, charged with involvement in the murder of 27,900 people during World War II, is due to start in October in Germany, Der Spiegel reported.
- 15:41 20/07/2009
The Russian Navy will expand and modernize its Soviet-era naval maintenance site near Tartus in Syria to support anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast, a high-ranking navy source said on Monday.
- 15:38 20/07/2009
The sole gunman captured alive during last November's terrorist attacks in Mumbai has reversed his retraction of his confession and pleaded guilty, an Indian news agency reported on Monday.
- 14:15 20/07/2009
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov praised on Monday the U.S.-U.S.S.R. race to the Moon in the 1960s as the "best competition ever in space."
- 13:43 20/07/2009
The official dollar rate set by the Russian Central Bank for July 21 is 31.3733 rubles, down 41 kopeks from Friday, the Central Bank said.
- 13:40 20/07/2009
Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus could reopen World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations in September, the Kremlin's WTO point man said on Monday.
- 13:05 20/07/2009
A crash initially involving two cars led to a mass pileup of 259 cars and injured 66 people on a German freeway between Berlin and Hannover, German television reported on Monday.
- 11:21 20/07/2009
Russia's largest gold mining company, Polyus Gold, does not rule out forming an alliance with a major global gold miner, the CEO of one of the company's major shareholders said on Monday.
- 11:21 20/07/2009
A new task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet will join international efforts to fight piracy off Somalia until the end of October, the first deputy chief of the Russian Navy General Staff said on Monday.
- 09:52 20/07/2009
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has taken part in the Minsk-2009 bike festival, leading the parade on a Harley Davidson, the BELTA news agency reported on Monday.
- 09:25 20/07/2009
Two Russian pilots were hospitalized with serious injuries after a civilian helicopter crashed in Afghanistan, killing at least 16 passengers, a Russian diplomat said on Monday.
- 09:23 20/07/2009
Talks between Honduras' interim government and ousted President Manuel Zelaya have broken down, with Zelaya pledging to return home next weekend.
