- 22:34 20/10/2009
India's state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation is considering the purchase of Russian oil fields and companies, Indian oil minister Murli Deora said.
- 22:21 20/10/2009
About 3,000 employees of the German mail-order retailer Quelle are to lose their jobs as the result of the company's bankruptcy, a spokesman for the firm's parent company said.
- 22:13 20/10/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that relations between the U.S. and Iraq were developing rapidly and were no longer exclusively security-related.
- 21:02 20/10/2009
Russian state-controlled nuclear fuel supplier TVEL plans to control 25% of the world's nuclear fuel market by 2030, the company's vice president said on Tuesday.
- 20:39 20/10/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reiterated on Tuesday that Moscow was looking to reset relations with the U.S. and other Western partners, including NATO.
- 19:20 20/10/2009
France will not pull out of uranium enrichment talks with Iran, despite the Islamic Republic's insistence that Paris's participation is unnecessary, a French Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 19:16 20/10/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspected on Tuesday a Volkswagen plant in the Kaluga Region southwest of Moscow.
- 18:55 20/10/2009
The Danish Energy Authority on Tuesday issued permission for the construction of the Russian-German Nord Stream gas pipeline on its seabed.
- 18:32 20/10/2009
Afghan President Hamid Karzai gave in to international pressure on Tuesday and agreed to take part in a second round of elections on November 7, election authorities said.
- 18:30 20/10/2009
The United States will not establish military bases in Georgia but will help the country to modernize its defense system and integrate into NATO, a senior U.S. defense official said on Tuesday.
- 18:06 20/10/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet on October 20 with the Indian foreign minister, during the diplomat's visit to Moscow, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
- 17:59 20/10/2009
At least five people died and dozens were wounded on Tuesday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Islamic University in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.
- 17:16 20/10/2009
Israel and the United States will start large-scale joint air defense drills on Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported Tuesday.
- 16:42 20/10/2009
Russia and Serbia signed on Tuesday agreements on the Serbian leg of the South Stream natural gas pipeline and an underground gas storage facility.
- 15:46 20/10/2009
Russia will not sign a deal on providing a 1 billion euro ($1.5 bln) loan to Serbia during President Dmitry Medvedev's current visit to Belgrade, a source in the Russian delegation said.
- 15:33 20/10/2009
Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) increased 0.6% quarter-on-quarter in July-September 2009, showing growth for the first time since the second quarter of 2008, the Economics Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 15:18 20/10/2009
Russia's top prosecutors have contacted Spanish authorities on the request of tycoon Oleg Deripaska, seeking clarification over the mention of his name in a money laundering investigation, a spokeswoman for the prosecutors said.
- 14:46 20/10/2009
Armenia is expected to import Russian natural gas at $180 per 1,000 cubic meters from April 2010 instead of the projected $200 following a preliminary agreement, Armenian gas pipeline operator ArmRosgazprom said on Tuesday.
- 14:11 20/10/2009
Thailand's police force is searching for a separatist militant suspected over yesterday's fatal explosion in a market in the country's south, the Bangkok Post said on Tuesday.
