- 21:50 06/08/2009
Russia will try to strengthen economic ties with both the Greek and the Turkish areas of Cyprus, which should help resolve the division of the island, Russia's prime minister said on Thursday.
- 21:41 06/08/2009
The Georgian parliament unanimously approved on Thursday sending troops to Afghanistan in support of a NATO-led peacekeeping operation in the war-torn country.
- 20:25 06/08/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan signed on Thursday agreements on cooperation in the gas sphere.
- 20:06 06/08/2009
A polar bear at the Berlin zoo who became a pet for all Germany will "marry" in September and maybe one day have a family, Tagesspiegel newspaper said on Thursday.
- 19:50 06/08/2009
The Caesar Kunikov large amphibious landing ship from Russia's Black Sea Fleet arrived on Thursday to the Bulgarian port of Varna to take part in the 14th Blackseafor naval drills.
- 19:22 06/08/2009
A bride from China's Jilin Province on Thursday dressed in world's longest wedding gown (2,162-meter long), Xinhua agency said.
- 18:35 06/08/2009
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian government to officially notify foreign states of Russia's refusal to join the Energy Charter, the government press service reported Thursday.
- 18:29 06/08/2009
Egyptian authorities have extended the operation of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip until Friday, the MENA news agency reported.
- 17:42 06/08/2009
The United States has asked Israel to order a one-year moratorium on building in Jewish settlements in the West Bank to unblock the Middle East peace process, Israel's Haaretz daily reported on Thursday.
- 16:37 06/08/2009
A British man on holiday in Crete suffered second-degree burns after a Greek woman became infuriated by his "indecent" behavior in a bar and set fire to him
- 16:13 06/08/2009
The tanks that Venezuela is planning to buy from Russia could be of the T-72 type, a Russian military analyst said on Thursday.
- 16:11 06/08/2009
Russia and Kyrgyzstan will seek to address Uzbekistan's concerns over plans to deploy a new Russian military base in southern Kyrgyzstan, the head of a post-Soviet regional security bloc said on Thursday.
- 15:57 06/08/2009
Five police officers were killed in Afghanistan when their vehicle hit a landmine on Thursday, the Afghan Interior Ministry said.
- 15:48 06/08/2009
Sam the koala, famous across the world after she was rescued during the bushfires in southern Australia in February, was put down on Thursday, local media reported.
- 15:29 06/08/2009
Russia is hoping to reach an agreement with India in August on an additional $1.2 billion to finalize the overhaul of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier for the Indian Navy, a Russian newspaper said on Thursday.
- 14:33 06/08/2009
NATO is unlikely to continue its eastern expansion into former Soviet territory, Russia's envoy to the alliance said on Thursday.
- 14:17 06/08/2009
Russia's natural gas exports to countries other than former Soviet republics declined 45%, year-on-year, in January-June 2009 to 48.8 billion cubic meters, the Federal Customs Service said on Thursday.
- 13:39 06/08/2009
Kiev officially notified Moscow on Thursday that it had accepted Mikhail Zurabov as Russia's new ambassador to Ukraine, the press secretary at the Russian embassy in Ukraine said.
- 13:21 06/08/2009
Up to 35 people, most of whom were soldiers, died when a bus fell into the Indus River in north Pakistan early on Thursday, The Nation newspaper reported
