- 21:35 03/08/2009
At least 46 journalists have been killed in 21 countries since the beginning of 2009, the International News Safety Institute (INSI) report said.
- 20:16 03/08/2009
A Tokyo court saw the start of Japan's first trial by jury for over 60 years following radical changes to the country's justice system, national media reported on Monday.
- 20:14 03/08/2009
Armenia denied on Monday reports that an airliner that crashed on July 15 was carrying arms for the Lebanon-based radical Hezbollah group.
- 18:52 03/08/2009
Russia hopes NATO's new secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, will be predictable, Russia's envoy to the military alliance said Monday.
- 18:28 03/08/2009
Russia's Reserve Fund declined 4.9% to 2.811 trillion rubles ($89.9 billion) while the National Welfare Fund grew 1.6% to 2.859 trillion rubles ($91.5 billion) in July, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.
- 18:14 03/08/2009
A Finnish court is considering the case of a Russian mother accused in Finland of kidnapping her son, who has both Russian and Finnish citizenship, Finland's charge d'affaires in Russia said on Monday.
- 17:48 03/08/2009
Russia's oil output increased 1.4%, year-on-year, in July to 41.92 million metric tons (307 million barrels), the Russian Energy Ministry said on Monday.
- 15:59 03/08/2009
South Korea will launch its first carrier rocket from the Naro Space Center on August 11, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Monday.
- 15:20 03/08/2009
The number of confirmed deaths from swine flu in the world has risen to 1,247, Russia's consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said on Monday.
- 15:15 03/08/2009
Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Monday, beginning a three-day break in the Palestinian enclave's isolation, the MENA news agency reported.
- 14:35 03/08/2009
Russia's Communist Party will hold protests outside the U.S. embassy in Moscow on Friday to mark Georgia's attack on South Ossetia, Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said
- 14:03 03/08/2009
International financial institutions are to release a $1.7 bln loan to Ukraine to reform its gas sector and facilitate payments for natural gas purchases, a European diplomatic source said on Monday.
- 13:54 03/08/2009
More than 2,500 lawsuits have been filed in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the UN International Criminal Court in The Hague by residents of the former Georgian republic of South Ossetia.
- 13:46 03/08/2009
Twelve people died and more than 20 were wounded in a terrorist attack in western Afghanistan on Monday, a local police spokesman said.
- 12:47 03/08/2009
Anders Fog Rasmussen, who was inaugurated as NATO's new secretary general on Saturday, started work on Monday in the alliance's headquarters in Brussels
- 11:26 03/08/2009
Russia's largest mobile communications operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has offered $1.27 billion for a 51% stake in Moscow's biggest multiservice communications operator, Comstar-UTS, a report said
- 10:21 03/08/2009
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is expected to officially confirm on Monday Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the winner of the country's disputed June elections.
- 10:09 03/08/2009
Some 9.5 tons of gold and silver ore worth $21.5 million have been raised to the surface from a sunken ship off the coast of southern Argentina, according to regional media.
- 09:47 03/08/2009
Chinese authorities have quarantined a town in the northwest of the country over an outbreak of pneumonic plague which has killed one and infected another 11 people, regional media said on Monday.
