- 20:54 10/09/2009
Russia and Venezuela signed on Thursday a package of deals, including one to develop the Latin American country's Orinoco oil belt, with estimated reserves of 235 billion barrels of heavy oil.
- 19:01 10/09/2009
At least 11 people died and some 20 are missing after a bus plunged into a river in northern Nepal on Thursday.
- 18:46 10/09/2009
Russia is ready to supply Venezuela with tanks and other types of military equipment.
- 18:37 10/09/2009
The Georgian Foreign Ministry condemned on Thursday Venezuela's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as "extremely unfriendly," saying that the move would be "counterproductive" for Venezuela.
- 18:28 10/09/2009
U.S. auto giant General Motors is prepared to sell the ailing German automaker Opel to a consortium of Austrian-Canadian Magna and Russia's Sberbank, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.
- 17:43 10/09/2009
A MiG-21 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in India's northwestern Punjab state on Thursday during a training flight, killing the pilot.
- 17:23 10/09/2009
North Korea's uranium enrichment experiments could further complicate the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
- 16:43 10/09/2009
Russia and Venezuela signed on Thursday a package of deals, including one to develop the Latin American country's Orinoco oil belt, with estimated reserves of 235 billion barrels of heavy oil.
- 16:41 10/09/2009
The Arctic Sea dry cargo ship will soon be handed over to Malta, but Russian investigators will need a few more days to complete work on board the vessel.
- 16:11 10/09/2009
Russia's Foreign Ministry has no official information on an alleged unannounced visit to Moscow by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- 15:59 10/09/2009
Russia is currently studying a package of nuclear proposals that Iran has submitted to six world powers.
- 15:08 10/09/2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday his country recognizes Georgia's two former breakaway republics as independent states.
- 14:58 10/09/2009
Businessman Yevgeny Chichvarkin, wanted in Russia on kidnapping and extortion charges, was arrested in London on Monday but released on bail the same day.
- 12:22 10/09/2009
The Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) announced on Thursday a $59 million net consolidated profit calculated to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the second quarter of 2009.
- 12:10 10/09/2009
At least five teenagers were crushed to death and 27 others injured when students panicked and rushed out of an Indian school on Thursday after rumors of a threat of electrocution.
- 11:51 10/09/2009
A special commission has announced the composition of the main and backup crews for the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
- 11:21 10/09/2009
Sberbank announced on Thursday a net profit under International Financial Reporting Standards of 6 billion rubles ($194 million) in January-June 2009, compared to 67 billion rubles ($2 billion) a year earlier.
- 10:52 10/09/2009
Movie theaters in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg have received bomb threats over the screening of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds film, an Interior Ministry press spokesperson said on Thursday.
- 10:44 10/09/2009
Nine people are reported to be dead or missing in the Philippines as a result of landslides and floods triggered by a tropical depression, local media reported
