- 22:55 05/11/2009
Israel's prime minister said on Thursday the UN should investigate Iranian attempts at arms smuggling rather than criticize Tel Aviv over its role in the 2008/09 Gaza Strip conflict.
- 21:58 05/11/2009
Nicaraguan authorities have evacuated some 2,200 people after Hurricane Ida slammed into the Atlantic coast of the country on Thursday, national media said.
- 21:31 05/11/2009
Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer will personally take the signed text of the Lisbon Treaty to Rome on November 13, a spokesman for the Czech government said on Thursday.
- 20:21 05/11/2009
Russia's prime minister thanked Sweden and Finland on Thursday for approving the construction of a Russian-German natural gas pipeline through their economic zones in the Baltic Sea.
- 18:33 05/11/2009
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas may decide against running in the January presidential elections, his spokesman said on Thursday.
- 17:56 05/11/2009
Russia's prime minister thanked Sweden and Finland on Thursday for approving the construction of a Russian-German natural gas pipeline through their economic zones in the Baltic Sea.
- 17:31 05/11/2009
General Motors' decision not to sell Opel to a Canadian-Russian consortium will not affect Russia's car industry, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 17:20 05/11/2009
Net capital inflow into Russia hit an estimated $10 billion in October, Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukaev said on Thursday.
- 16:54 05/11/2009
Russia's ailing automaker AvtoVAZ requires an additional 5 billion rubles ($170 million) in investment to make competitive products, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 15:57 05/11/2009
Russian-Israeli businessman and women's basketball club owner Shabtai Kalmanovich, gunned down on Monday in Moscow, was buried on Thursday in Israel, local media reported.
- 15:27 05/11/2009
France's Mistral amphibious assault ship will arrive on an official visit to St. Petersburg on November 23, a senior Russian Navy official said on Thursday.
- 14:19 05/11/2009
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has condemned the recent military cooperation agreement between the U.S. and Colombia which allows Washington to deploy troops at Colombian military bases
- 13:58 05/11/2009
A special cargo ship carrying parts of two Russian Soyuz-ST rockets will leave the port of St. Petersburg on November 7, heading to the Kourou space center, the Progress design bureau said Thursday.
- 13:49 05/11/2009
Coca-Cola Company said on Thursday it was delaying the launch of its factory in south Russia until 2010 over problems with the infrastructure and critical remarks from the country's construction supervisory authority.
- 13:07 05/11/2009
At least 99 people have been killed and another 22 have gone missing since a powerful storm hit central Vietnam earlier this week, Al Jazeera said on Thursday
- 11:17 05/11/2009
China is hoping that bilateral negotiations between the United States and North Korea will help revive six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
- 10:00 05/11/2009
Russia has reiterated its proposal to the United States to sign a bilateral extradition agreement, the Russian justice minister said.
- 08:52 05/11/2009
A famous painting by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, called Krass und Mild (Dramatic and Mild), was sold for $9.4 million at an auction at Sotheby's in New York.
- 05:48 05/11/2009
Brazilian President Lula Inacio da Silva will be awarded on Thursday the Chatham House prize, a prestigious award from London's Institute of International Affairs, for his contribution to international politics.
