- 22:06 30/07/2009
Police in the Spanish resort of Majorca have deactivated a second bomb close to the site of a blast at a police barracks that killed two officers earlier on Thursday on the island, Sky News said.
- 21:18 30/07/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Ukraine had not presented any evidence to back up its claims that Russian diplomats were involved in espionage.
- 21:03 30/07/2009
The Russian, Tajik, Afghan and Pakistani presidents called on the international community on Thursday to take additional steps to fight drug trafficking.
- 20:28 30/07/2009
Moscow dismissed on Thursday comments by a U.S. administration official suggesting that Russia could become a member of NATO.
- 19:49 30/07/2009
Spanish security services closed down the airport and all sea ports on the resort island of Majorca on Thursday following a terrorist attack that killed two policemen, the El Mundo newspaper said.
- 18:58 30/07/2009
South Korea has urged North Korea to release a fishing boat carrying four crewmembers that was seized earlier on Thursday.
- 18:44 30/07/2009
South Korea's economics minister along with oil and gas executives will visit Russia in August to discuss the possibility of laying a gas pipeline across North Korea, the Maeil business daily said on Thursday.
- 16:56 30/07/2009
The Russian government has approved the main parameters of the federal budget for 2010-2012, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Thursday.
- 16:43 30/07/2009
An explosion near a police barracks in the Spanish city of Palma Nova on the resort island of Majorca has left at least two dead and several others injured, El Pais reported on Thursday.
- 16:29 30/07/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will pay a visit to Turkey on August 6, the Russian government's press service said on Thursday.
- 16:24 30/07/2009
Snap parliamentary elections in Moldova complied with international standards, the head of OSCE observers said at a news conference on Thursday.
- 16:06 30/07/2009
A cholera epidemic which has killed over 4,000 people since last August in Zimbabwe is over, the country's health minister said on Thursday.
- 15:44 30/07/2009
The president of the former Georgian republic of South Ossetia, Eduard Kokoity, told RIA Novosti on Thursday he does not believe that Georgia will attack his country in the future.
- 15:37 30/07/2009
Moroccan King Mohammed VI has amnestied about 24,000 prisoners to mark the 10th anniversary of his coronation, the Arabic Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Thursday.
- 15:05 30/07/2009
Indonesia has put off until 2011 plans to buy two submarines and several warplanes due to financial problems, the Antara national news agency reported on Thursday.
- 14:43 30/07/2009
Russian oil company Surgutneftegaz said on Thursday its net profit calculated to Russian Accounting Standards decreased 80% year-on-year in April-June 2009 to 8.47 billion rubles ($266 million).
- 13:53 30/07/2009
A new task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet has arrived in the Gulf of Aden to fight piracy off the Somali coast, a fleet spokesman said
- 13:03 30/07/2009
Russia's international reserves, largely holding gold and foreign exchange, increased by $4.3 billion to $402.4 billion in the week of July 17-24, the Central Bank of Russia said on Thursday.
- 12:58 30/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will arrive in Dushanbe on a two-day working visit on Thursday to meet with his counterparts from Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
