| October 2009 |
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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged Russia on Wednesday to provide assistance in training and equipping the Afghan Army.
German police officers detained in Berlin on Wednesday three people suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in Russia, the local prosecutor general's office said.
The Russian captain of a cargo vessel stranded in the United Arab Emirates has asked local authorities to impound his ship.
Moldova's parliament will vote to elect a new president on October 23. During a session on Wednesday, the parliament formed a special presidential election commission.
Berlin police searched 26 apartments on Wednesday in a series of raids targeting 13 Chechen extremists living in the city's Neukolln and Kreuzberg districts, a police spokesman said.
Russia's hydropower company RusHydro announced on Wednesday it had completed the cleanup of debris at a Siberian hydropower plant severely damaged during a recent accident.
Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday that Russia has five ongoing contracts with Libya in the sphere of military cooperation.
Italian lawmakers are set to consider a ban on the public wearing of Islamic burqas - clothing covering the entire face and body - by women, local media said.
Iran's president considers last week's nuclear talks with international mediators in Geneva to represent a positive step forward, and has expressed Tehran's readiness to continue negotiations, FARS news agency said on Wednesday.
Two pilots were killed when a Libyan Air Force MiG-23 Flogger fighter crashed on Wednesday in Tripoli during a demonstration flight, a Libyan Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Hydropower company RusHydro will raise loans worth 7 billion rubles ($230 million) in 2010 to restore a Siberian hydropower plant severely damaged during a recent accident, the company's acting CEO said Wednesday.
New Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said on Wednesday he would make the fight against corruption a priority.
The new U.S. missile shield plans present no risks for Russia, and favorable conditions are now emerging for bilateral dialogue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
Russia welcomes North Korea's recent announcement that it is willing to return to the six-nation talks on ending its nuclear weapons program, Moscow's envoy to the talks said on Wednesday.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Wednesday it has awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to one Israeli and two U.S. scientists "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome."
Russia's federal drug control service will provide the U.S. with data on Afghan drugs, and expects reciprocal steps from U.S. colleagues, the head of the service said on Wednesday.
Iran plans to send a living creature into space within the next two years, the Fars news agency has reported.
Egypt's parliament has rejected a request from two opposition lawmakers to seek the dismissal of the country's top Islamic cleric over his planned ban on women's veils at a top university, Al Jazeera reported.
Abkhazia will hold a presidential election on December 12, the former Georgian republic's parliament decided on Wednesday.



