- 21:51 07/10/2009
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged Russia on Wednesday to provide assistance in training and equipping the Afghan Army.
- 21:18 07/10/2009
German police officers detained in Berlin on Wednesday three people suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in Russia, the local prosecutor general's office said.
- 19:08 07/10/2009
The Russian captain of a cargo vessel stranded in the United Arab Emirates has asked local authorities to impound his ship.
- 18:59 07/10/2009
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.
- 18:49 07/10/2009
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.
- 18:31 07/10/2009
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.
- 18:07 07/10/2009
Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday that Russia has five ongoing contracts with Libya in the sphere of military cooperation.
- 17:37 07/10/2009
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.
- 17:23 07/10/2009
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.
- 17:13 07/10/2009
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.
- 17:13 07/10/2009
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.
- 16:46 07/10/2009
New Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said on Wednesday he would make the fight against corruption a priority.
- 16:13 07/10/2009
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.
- 16:07 07/10/2009
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.
- 15:59 07/10/2009
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."
- 15:34 07/10/2009
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.
- 15:24 07/10/2009
Iran plans to send a living creature into space within the next two years, the Fars news agency has reported.
- 15:20 07/10/2009
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.
- 14:39 07/10/2009
Abkhazia will hold a presidential election on December 12, the former Georgian republic's parliament decided on Wednesday.
