- 21:36 23/07/2009
A Russian radio station said Thursday that Ukraine has decided to expel a Russian diplomat who was involved in talks on the presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the country.
- 21:28 23/07/2009
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has ended his trip to Georgia by visiting children whose families were displaced when Georgia attacked South Ossetia last August.
- 20:14 23/07/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed on Thursday a government order on Russia's participation in an ambitious laser research project to be based in Germany.
- 19:50 23/07/2009
Any improvement in U.S.-Russian relations will not harm Georgia, and the United States will never recognize Abkhazia or South Ossetia as independent states, the U.S. vice president said on Thursday.
- 18:44 23/07/2009
European Commissioner for Foreign Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner was to arrive in Havana on Thursday for discussions on relations between the EU and Cuba, local media reported.
- 18:00 23/07/2009
Russia's gross domestic product for June was 9.6% lower than the same month in 2008, the Economic Development Ministry said on Thursday.
- 17:47 23/07/2009
The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Russia to pay 37,000 euros ($53,000) in compensation to the relatives of a Chechen man who was abducted in 2001.
- 17:41 23/07/2009
Iceland officially applied to join the European Union on Thursday, with its foreign minister targeting membership within three years.
- 17:41 23/07/2009
North Korea has launched a bizarre verbal attack on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, calling her vulgar and unintelligent after she likened the communist state to an unruly child earlier this week.
- 16:39 23/07/2009
The 37th two-day summit of the South American largest trade bloc Mercosur opens in Paraguay on Thursday.
- 15:25 23/07/2009
The United States and Canada will begin in August a 42-day joint expedition to the Arctic to survey the continental shelf in the Arctic, the U.S. State Department has announced.
- 14:47 23/07/2009
Polyus Gold, Russia's largest gold mining company, said on Thursday its net profit calculated to Russian Accounting Standards increased almost 400%, quarter-on-quarter, in April-June 2009 to 1.4 billion rubles ($44.9 million).
- 14:04 23/07/2009
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Thursday his country was under threat and its security could only be ensured through cooperation with the United States.
- 13:41 23/07/2009
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas urged Israel to demolish its Security Fence erected in the West Bank, Palestinian WAFA news agency reported on Thursday.
- 12:02 23/07/2009
A toxic leak in the Latvian port city of Riga has prompted authorities to evacuate residents from nearby neighborhoods due to the threat of an explosion, a spokeswoman for the Riga mayor's office said on Thursday.
- 11:33 23/07/2009
Russia's international reserves, largely holding gold and foreign exchange, decreased by $2.8 billion to $398.1 billion in the week of July 10-17, the Central Bank of Russia said on Thursday.
- 11:09 23/07/2009
Talks between Honduras' interim government and representatives of ouster President Manuel Zelaya have again broken down in Costa Rica.
- 09:24 23/07/2009
Twenty-three coal miners have been trapped in a mine after a flooding accident in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang near the Russian border, Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.
