- 21:40 05/10/2009
Russia will support Serbia's case in UN court hearings on the legitimacy of Kosovo's declaration of independence, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
- 21:01 05/10/2009
The de facto president of Honduras announced on Monday the cancelation of a state of emergency in the country and the restoration of citizens' civil liberties from Tuesday.
- 20:55 05/10/2009
Greece's president asked George Papandreou to form a government on Monday after his Socialist party won a decisive victory over the ruling conservatives in early elections, state television reported.
- 19:59 05/10/2009
Somali pirates have released Turkey's Horizon-1 bulk carrier, hijacked three months ago, after receiving a ransom for the vessel, Turkish media said on Monday citing the ship's owner.
- 17:55 05/10/2009
More than 240 people have died in floods in southern and western regions of India, local media said on Monday.
- 17:47 05/10/2009
Norway's Telenor and Russia's Alfa Group said on Monday they were ending their long-running legal dispute and combining their mobile phone holdings in Russia and Ukraine into a single company.
- 16:53 05/10/2009
Iran's top nuclear energy official said in a television interview on Monday that the Islamic Republic has now mastered the full nuclear fuel cycle.
- 15:58 05/10/2009
Russian coastguard patrol boats and Black Sea Fleet warships will escort freight vessels carrying supplies to Abkhazia, a source in Russia's security services said on Monday.
- 15:39 05/10/2009
Alrosa, Russia's largest diamond miner, said on Monday it sold diamonds worth $1.34 billion in January-September 2009, including sales to Russia's State Depository for Precious Metals.
- 15:22 05/10/2009
A Kyrgyz parliamentary committee approved on Monday draft agreements allowing France and Spain to deploy troops at a U.S. center for transit to Afghanistan at the former-Soviet republic's Manas airbase.
- 15:22 05/10/2009
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Monday against pitting Russia's president against the prime minister.
- 15:11 05/10/2009
Police in the southern German town of Weinsberg have detained a crow who repeatedly chased and attacked a local woman, the online edition of the Bild newspaper has reported.
- 15:02 05/10/2009
Three people were killed in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Monday when a suspected suicide bomber attacked a UN World Food Program office, the Dawn News TV channel said.
- 15:00 05/10/2009
The final test run of Iran's first nuclear power plant will begin within the next several days, Iran's vice president said on Monday.
- 14:29 05/10/2009
Power Machines, Russia's leading energy equipment producer, said on Monday its net profit under International Financial Reporting Standards increased 240% year-on-year in January-June to $53.1 million.
- 14:27 05/10/2009
At least ten people died and over 88 were injured when a train came off the rails in southern Thailand on Monday, national media reported.
- 14:21 05/10/2009
A U.S.-based subsidiary of Yukos, declared bankrupt in 2006, intends to sue the Russian government for a record $100 billion in the Strasbourg Court, the Yukos former finance director said on Monday.
- 13:19 05/10/2009
Indonesian authorities have halted search and rescue operations in the city of Padang on the island of Sumatra, six days after a series of powerful earthquakes devastated the region.
- 13:16 05/10/2009
Russia is ready to extend a loan to Serbia and is considering the possibility of granting a loan to Bulgaria, the Russian finance minister said on Monday.
