- 15:08 08/10/2009
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned a suicide bombing in the capital Kabul that killed 12 people and wounded at least 84 others early on Thursday.
- 14:54 08/10/2009
The former technical director of Russia's now defunct electricity monopoly, who was named among officials responsible for a disaster at a recent Siberian power plant accident, brushed aside on Thursday his role in the disaster.
- 14:45 08/10/2009
The de facto president of Honduras has said that he is ready to step down if ousted President Manuel Zelaya also gives up his claim to office, the EFE news agency reported on Thursday.
- 14:36 08/10/2009
Georgia is still welcome to join NATO, the alliance secretary general's special representative to the Caucasus said on Thursday.
- 13:11 08/10/2009
A Kremlin aide said on Thursday it could be advantageous to switch to non-dollar oil payments, but that he had not heard of any discussions on the issue.
- 12:29 08/10/2009
Russia's largest independent oil producer LUKoil is ready to participate in the West Qurna-1 oil project in Iraq on Baghdad's terms, CEO Vagit Alekperov said on Thursday.
- 12:11 08/10/2009
British minister for energy and climate change Ed Miliband unexpectedly discovered a long-lost Russian relative during his recent visit to Moscow, British media reports have said.
- 11:55 08/10/2009
The Russian government is considering a ban on all incandescent light bulbs from January 1, 2014, the economics minister said on Thursday.
- 11:21 08/10/2009
A powerful car bomb detonated in the Afghan capital on Thursday morning killed 10 people and injured another 82, a senior police officer told RIA Novosti.
- 10:22 08/10/2009
A large-scale immunization campaign against swine flu has started in the United Stats with the vaccination of 68,000 New Yorkers.
- 09:38 08/10/2009
Around 10 people were killed in a powerful explosion caused by a suicide bomber near the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Thursday morning, a police source told RIA Novosti.
- 09:11 08/10/2009
A Russian Pacific Fleet task force has resumed anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden after a five-day visit to the Seychelles, a fleet spokesman said on Thursday.
- 07:16 08/10/2009
The de facto Honduran government demanded on Thursday that ousted President Manuel Zelaya hand in firearms of his bodyguards.
- 06:33 08/10/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama has received a formal request by a U.S. top military commander to send additional troops to Afghanistan, a White House spokesman has said.
- 04:17 08/10/2009
Unilateral buildup of strategic missile defense complicates the process of nuclear disarmament, Russia's envoy to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, said on Thursday.
- 03:23 08/10/2009
The UN Security Council will discuss the Goldstone report on the Israeli military incursion into Gaza at the turn of the year, during the October 14 open Middle East debates, a Libyan diplomat told journalists on Thursday.
- 00:00 08/10/2009
