- 22:58 11/11/2009
Russia has refuted statements by partners in Geneva in regard to the stabilization of the situation in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zones, a Russian deputy minister said on Wednesday.
- 21:29 11/11/2009
The number of deaths in Ukraine from flu viruses has climbed to 213, the country's Health Ministry reported on Wednesday.
- 20:43 11/11/2009
The Arctic Sea cargo vessel left a Maltese port for Algeria on Wednesday to resume its route interrupted by hijackers in the Atlantic Ocean this summer, the operating company said.
- 20:09 11/11/2009
Russia's ambassador to the UN has received an envelope with white powder, the embassy's press secretary confirmed on Wednesday.
- 19:30 11/11/2009
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his demand on Wednesday for Israel to stop building settlements in the West Bank before the two conflicting sides can resume peace talks.
- 18:16 11/11/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann urged both their governments to expedite work on an agreement to build the Austrian section of a gas pipeline to southeast Europe
- 17:43 11/11/2009
Russia has to fulfill its contract on the supply of S-300 defensive surface-to-air missile systems to Iran, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Wednesday.
- 17:29 11/11/2009
Business communities from Russia and Nigeria are intensifying cooperation in modernizing Nigeria’s agriculture and introducing modern technologies following recent talks, the Russian-Nigeria Business Council said.
- 14:34 11/11/2009
The European Union will hold a summit on November 19 to elect a president and a foreign policy chief, the Swedish presidency said on Wednesday
- 13:59 11/11/2009
Russia and the United States have yet to overcome the stagnation in bilateral relations that began under the previous U.S. administration, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
- 13:19 11/11/2009
The death toll from mudslides and flooding in El Salvador caused by hurricane Ida has risen to 152 with many more missing, national media quoted rescuers as saying on Wednesday.
- 12:58 11/11/2009
The U.S. has decided to send an envoy to North Korea to persuade the communist regime to resume denuclearization talks, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
- 12:31 11/11/2009
Russia may raise oil export duty on its benchmark Urals blend by $40 from December 1 to $271-273 per metric ton from the current $231.2 per ton, a Finance Ministry official said on Wednesday.
- 12:03 11/11/2009
Robert Enke, a goalkeeper for Germany's national football team, died late on Tuesday after jumping from a rail bridge and being hit by a train near his home in Hanover.
- 11:27 11/11/2009
Police in Peru have seized about 350 kilograms of cocaine in the mountains to the northeast of Lima, being transported by mules, the Radio programas del Peru radio station reported.
- 11:12 11/11/2009
Kazakhstan's uranium output increased 61%, year-on-year, in January-September 2009 to 9,535 metric tons, the national nuclear power company Kazatomprom said on Wednesday.
- 10:45 11/11/2009
Foreign ministers from Pacific Rim countries met in Singapore on Wednesday morning ahead of an APEC summit, for informal discussions focusing on economic security.
- 09:28 11/11/2009
Eight computer hackers from Estonia, Moldova and Russia have been charged in the U.S. over a mass case of credit card fraud, in which they allegedly stole over $9 million, the U.S. Justice Department said.
- 07:27 11/11/2009
John Allen Muhammad, convicted of a series of sniper attacks around Washington DC in 2002, has been put to death by lethal injection in Virginia.
