- 22:35 02/10/2009
India wants to buy another 50 Sukhoi-30MKI multi-role fighters, an Indian daily reported on Friday. 
- 22:14 02/10/2009
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh praised on Friday the release of Palestinian female prisoners in exchange for a video of an Israeli soldier abducted three years ago.
- 21:50 02/10/2009
Moscow is cautiously optimistic about the results of Geneva talks on Iran's nuclear program, Russia's foreign minister said on Friday.
- 21:27 02/10/2009
Members of the Iran Six group of international negotiators prefer dialogue to threats in talks on Iran's nuclear program, a senior Russian parliamentarian said on Friday.
- 21:22 02/10/2009
Russia could monitor and escort ships in neutral waters heading to Abkhazia to protect them from possible Georgian provocations, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.
- 20:57 02/10/2009
- 20:06 02/10/2009
A delegation from Bosnia-Herzegovina handed in on Friday an official application for a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP).
- 19:14 02/10/2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will make her first trip to Russia during a European tour on October 9-15, the U.S. State Department said in a press release on Friday.
- 18:30 02/10/2009
Russia will resist any attempt by Washington to prevent the recognition of Abkhazia by third countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 17:27 02/10/2009
Russia's state-run corporation Rosatom has signed contracts worth $3 billion in total to supply low-enriched uranium to Japan and France, Russian civil nuclear power corporation Atomenergoprom said on Friday.
- 17:03 02/10/2009
The U.S. firm Space Adventures said on Friday it will be able to send two space tourists into orbit on Soyuz spacecraft from 2012 onwards.
- 16:58 02/10/2009
The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog is due in Tehran on Saturday for talks on the inspection of Iran's second uranium enrichment site.
- 16:41 02/10/2009
Israel began on Friday releasing the first of 20 Palestinian female prisoners it has agreed to exchange for a video of an Israeli soldier abducted three years ago by Hamas.
- 16:30 02/10/2009
In an open letter to President Dmitry Medvedev published in the Vedomosti daily on Friday, the scientists highlighted "the catastrophic state of theoretical science" and put forward proposals to ensure the country's scientific and technological development.
- 15:13 02/10/2009
Moscow will host an international conference on Sudan on October 6-7, bringing together politicians, scientists and legal experts to discuss ways to resolve the situation in Darfur.
- 14:13 02/10/2009
Serbia's foreign minister will arrive in Moscow on Sunday for a three-day official visit to Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Friday.
- 14:02 02/10/2009
The Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from Russia's Mission Control Center.
- 12:30 02/10/2009
The U.S. government has allocated $300,000 in emergency aid to Indonesia, hit by a powerful quake that killed at least 1,100 people and injured many more, the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta said on Friday.
- 09:44 02/10/2009
Russian customs officials in the southern Urals city of Orenburg on Friday morning arrested two drug mules from Tajikistan with 225 capsules of heroin in their stomachs, a spokeswoman said.
