| September 2009 |
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The agenda for the current session of the UN General Assembly, which
brings together a total of 122 heads of state and government, includes
such issues as the provision of world peace and security, protection of
the environment and human rights, the struggle against terrorism, and
measures to promote social and economic development.

The criminal probe against RIA Novosti's Tbilisi bureau chief on forgery allegations is politically motivated, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
With all the ballots counted, the Afghan Central Election Commission said Wednesday that incumbent President Hamid Karzai garnered 54.62% of the vote in the August 20 elections.
The head of RIA Novosti's bureau in Georgia is being investigated on suspicion of forging a driving license in a case his lawyers say it totally without merit.
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday urged all members of the European Union to work towards creating "a Europe without borders."
The White House Mideast envoy completed on Wednesday a regular round of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with no visible signs of progress on the issue of Jewish settlements.
The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to give European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso a second five-year term in office.
A large-scale vaccination campaign against swine flu is scheduled to start in the U.S. in mid-October, local media reported on Wednesday.
The Bank of New York will pay Russia's customs authorities at least $14 million as an out-of-court settlement of a $22.5 billion money laundering lawsuit.
The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown's latest novel, broke a one-day sales record for adult fiction in the first 24 hours of its release at stores and online.
Russia's relations with Japan are likely to improve under the country's new prime minister.
With voting over in Japan's general election, exit polls suggest that
the opposition has secured an overwhelming victory over the
conservative party, which has held power for most of the past 50 years.

Russia's Zvezdochka shipyard said on Wednesday it will install Club-S cruise missile systems on four Kilo class diesel submarines in service with the Indian navy in the next five years.
The Georgian patriarchy does not recognize the Abkhaz Orthodox Church as independent.
Israel said on Wednesday it was "shocked and disappointed" by a UN report accusing its military forces of war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
A team of Russian investigators probing a recent incident involving the Arctic Sea cargo ship will leave the vessel by Friday.
Japanese lawmakers elected center-left former opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama as prime minster on Wednesday, ending half a century of almost continual conservative rule.
The U.S. Navy coastguard cutter Sycamore began a three-day visit to Russia's Far East port of Vladivostok on Wednesday.
Two Russian vessels belonging to the Arctic Shipping Company have been released by Chinese authorities after the firm began to pay back money owed for repairs.



