- 22:26 24/07/2009
The number of children from an eastern Ukrainian recreational complex hospitalized with a food poisoning has grown to 18, local health authorities reported
- 21:46 24/07/2009
Belarus condemned on Friday what it said were attempts to cause a scandal over recent travel advice issued to nationals planning to travel to Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
- 21:13 24/07/2009
At least 17 people were killed and 19 injured as a passenger jet skidded off the runway during landing in northeast Iran, the IRNA news agency reported Friday.
- 19:59 24/07/2009
Russia's Latvia-bound oil product supplies via Belarus, suspended by Minsk last week, resumed on Thursday, the state-run transit company Transnefteprodukt said.
- 19:40 24/07/2009
Russian military ships will not be involved in anti-piracy operations under the command of NATO or the European Union, Russia's permanent envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
- 19:07 24/07/2009
At least six people died and 20 wereseverely injured when a train derailed in Croatia earlier on Friday, HRT TV-channel reported.
- 18:33 24/07/2009
Georgia's entry to NATO is impossible as long as its new borders have not been defined, the Russian envoy to NATO said on Friday dismissing U.S. pledges on the ex-Soviet state's ambition.
- 16:33 24/07/2009
Consultations with Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev are scheduled to continue in a week or two in London, the speaker of Chechnya's parliament said on Friday after talks in Oslo.
- 16:26 24/07/2009
Turkish special forces detained some 200 suspected members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir group on Friday in simultaneous raids spread across 23 provinces in the country, Ankara's security forces said.
- 16:18 24/07/2009
Cuba is open to dialogue with EU on the basis of mutual respect, equality and noninterference in internal affairs, its foreign minister said after a meeting with the EU commissioner for foreign relations.
- 14:47 24/07/2009
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili welcomed on Friday Belarus's advisory for its citizens to enter the country's self-proclaimed republics via Georgia, not Russia.
- 14:47 24/07/2009
President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela will at least double the number of tanks in its military and continue strengthening its defense capability, the state-run ABN news agency reported.
- 14:06 24/07/2009
Russia will respond harshly to any actions by foreign countries that threaten the interests of its citizens, the Russian president said on Friday.
- 12:58 24/07/2009
Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev, who lives in self-imposed exile in Britain, could announce on Friday his voluntary return to Russia, a Russian business daily said.
- 11:41 24/07/2009
The Thai authorities have promised to handle the extradition case of arms dealer Viktor Bout objectively and without politicizing the situation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 10:52 24/07/2009
Election observers from the Commonwealth of Independent States said on Friday that the presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan had been "open and free."
- 09:47 24/07/2009
A Russian Soyuz-U carrier rocket will lift off on Friday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan with the Progress M-67 space freighter for the International Space Station (ISS).
- 09:04 24/07/2009
With 25% of the votes counted, incumbent President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has a vast lead in Kyrgyzstan's presidential elections, election officials said on Friday.
