- 21:49 28/07/2009
Iranian authorities have released around 140 protestors detained during Iran's post-election riots, officials said 
- 19:16 28/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on his 55th birthday on Tuesday, the Kremlin press service announced.
- 18:36 28/07/2009
South Ossetia has organized a student volunteer project to help rebuilding work in the republic, devastated by a Georgian military onslaught a year ago, a Kremlin official announced on Tuesday.
- 18:27 28/07/2009
Iranian authorities have refused permission to hold a ceremony in memory of those killed during post-election riots in June, the country's Fars News Agency said on Tuesday.
- 16:16 28/07/2009
Egypt plans to open the Rafah border crossing to the Gaza Strip for three days from August 3, Egyptian media reported on Tuesday.
- 15:29 28/07/2009
Members of Kyrgyzstan's opposition plan to hold demonstrations on Wednesday to protest the final results of the country's presidential elections, losing candidate Almazbek Atambayev said on Tuesday.
- 15:07 28/07/2009
Medical spending in the U.S. due to obesity has doubled in the past 10 years, and may now have reached around $147 billion per year, a new study has found.
- 14:32 28/07/2009
About 80% of construction projects in Russia are currently frozen due to the ongoing economic crisis, the president of the Russian Union of Developers said on Tuesday.
- 14:24 28/07/2009
Surgeons at Mansoura University's Children's Hospital in Egypt have successfully separated a set of 8-month-old conjoined twins, Egyptian MENA news agency reported on Tuesday.
- 13:39 28/07/2009
Israel has allowed a shipment of automobile fuel for general sale into the Gaza Strip for the first time in 10 months, the deputy head of the association of gas station owners said on Tuesday.
- 13:18 28/07/2009
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin continues his Latin American tour on Tuesday with his third visit to Nicaragua in the past 12 months.
- 11:48 28/07/2009
Russia's largest independent natural gas producer Novatek said on Tuesday its net profit under Russian Accounting Standards had declined 24.4%, year-on-year, in January-June 2009 to 6.825 billion rubles ($220 million).
- 11:14 28/07/2009
The Russian-British joint oil venture TNK-BP said on Tuesday its U.S. GAAP net profit had dropped 56.5% year-on-year in January-June 2009 to $2 billion.
- 10:59 28/07/2009
Unknown people set fire to seven regional offices of three Greek political parties in Athens early on Tuesday morning, police in the Greek capital said.
- 10:46 28/07/2009
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin continues his Latin American tour on Tuesday with his third visit to Nicaragua in the past 12 months.
