- 22:42 29/10/2009
Ecuador could return six helicopters recently bought from an Indian company after one of the aircraft crashed at an air show last week, the Unverso newspaper reported on Thursday.
- 22:35 29/10/2009
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will not be attending his war crimes trial in The Hague until the court meets his demand for more time to prepare, his lawyer said on Thursday.
- 22:17 29/10/2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit the Middle East for talks with Israeli prime minister and Palestinian president at the weekend, State Department said on Thursday.
- 21:46 29/10/2009
The Russian-crewed and Maltese-flagged vessel at the center of a mysterious hijacking case was handed over to representatives of Malta on Thursday, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said.
- 19:16 29/10/2009
The visit to Russia by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband due later this week could foster better ties between Moscow and London, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 18:51 29/10/2009
Russia is investigating whether there are Russians on board the Thailand-flagged fishing vessel hijacked by pirates off Seychelles on Thursday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
- 18:28 29/10/2009
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it was unacceptable for the United States to apply pressure to secure the extradition of alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout from Thailand.
- 18:00 29/10/2009
The Strasbourg court has fined Russia 130,000 euros ($192,000) over the disappearance in 2000 of three people in its North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, the court said in a press release on Thursday.
- 17:42 29/10/2009
The Russian and U.S. presidents will discuss a news arms control agreement in mid-November in Singapore, the Russian foreign minister said on Thursday.
- 16:47 29/10/2009
Iran may be making positive noises about a draft agreement on nuclear fuel, but the international community must not relax yet, a senior Russian expert warned on Thursday.
- 16:08 29/10/2009
The leaders of Russia and Ecuador signed on Thursday in Moscow a declaration on strategic partnership in politics, security, environmental protection, education, science, culture and tourism.
- 16:08 29/10/2009
Russia's largest truck producer, KamAZ, announced on Thursday net losses under International Financial Reporting Standards of 1.8 billion rubles ($60 million) in January-June 2009.
- 16:04 29/10/2009
The "Michael Jackson’s This is it" documentary made $2.2 million in North America alone on the first night of release October 27. Sony, the distributor, said the first night’s box office was “unprecedented” for a documentary shown late on Tuesday night.
- 16:02 29/10/2009
Hollywood's Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn has visited Venezuela, where he met with the country's President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan media reported on Thursday.
- 15:09 29/10/2009
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Thursday the Islamist movement Hamas is afraid to participate in Palestinian presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for January 2010.
- 14:57 29/10/2009
A 112-year-old Somali man has married a 17-year-old girl, BBC reported on Thursday.
- 14:52 29/10/2009
A Thailand-flagged fishing vessel was hijacked on Thursday by two pirate skiffs about 200 nautical miles north of Seychelles, the European Union naval force said.
- 14:21 29/10/2009
Tbilisi authorities have decided to name a street in Vake-Saburtalinsky district of Georgia's capital after Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead by an unknown killer three years ago.
- 14:06 29/10/2009
Alrosa, Russia's largest diamond miner, said on Thursday it sold diamonds worth $1.73 billion in January-October 2009.
