- 21:57 17/11/2009
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said Tehran sees a U.S.-backed plan over nuclear fuel swaps as positive, provided that the exchange of enriched uranium takes place inside the country, the Indian RTT News reported on Tuesday.
- 20:17 17/11/2009
The creation of a Ukrainian-Polish-Lithuanian peacekeeping brigade is an attempt by the West to woo former post-Soviet countries while not formally admitting them to NATO, a Russian analyst said Tuesday.
- 18:49 17/11/2009
Russia is close to finishing the construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant and is currently making final adjustments, Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Tuesday.
- 18:47 17/11/2009
Somali pirates have seized a chemical tanker in the south Somali basin, some 180 nautical miles northwest of Seychelles, the EU NAVFOR Somalia said in a press release.
- 17:35 17/11/2009
Arab countries support the Palestinian National Authority's bid to unilaterally seek recognition at the United Nations as an independent state, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday.
- 16:55 17/11/2009
The U.S. ambassador to Moscow confirmed on Tuesday that the United States will continue to use Russian Soyuz spacecraft after space shuttles retire from service in 2010.
- 16:36 17/11/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will arrive in Stockholm on Tuesday for an EU-Russia summit to focus on energy security and a new cooperation pact, a Kremlin aide said.
- 16:23 17/11/2009
The U.S. ambassador said Russia and the United States have good chances of signing a new nuclear arms reduction treaty this year.
- 15:43 17/11/2009
A group of mostly British tourists on board a Russian icebreaker in the Antarctic are getting more of a trip than they bargained for as the ship has become stuck in the ice.
- 14:44 17/11/2009
The European Union will select a president and foreign policy chief from among some 20 candidates at a special summit later this week, a EU official said on Tuesday.
- 14:38 17/11/2009
In a 32-hour marathon operation, doctors have separated two Bangladeshi twins who were joined at the head, the news.com.au portal said on Tuesday.
- 14:37 17/11/2009
A new nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States may yet be signed by December 5, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 14:36 17/11/2009
The inauguration of re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai will be held in Kabul on November 19 amid unprecedented security measures.
- 14:30 17/11/2009
Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday there was no connection between the ongoing international dispute over Iran's nuclear program and a delay in launching the country's first nuclear power plant.
- 13:56 17/11/2009
Russia's crude oil output (including gas condensate), expanded 0.8%, year-on-year in January-October 2009 to 410 million metric tons (3 billion barrels), the country's top statistics body Rosstat said on Tuesday.
- 13:33 17/11/2009
The Czech Republic marks on Tuesday the 20th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution that overthrew the communist regime in then Czechoslovakia.
- 13:22 17/11/2009
Russia and Slovakia have signed a deal on long-term cooperation in nuclear power engineering, Russia's state nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly AtomStroyExport said on Tuesday.
- 11:44 17/11/2009
Japan has the highest suicide rate in the group of seven industrialized nations, according to a report published on Tuesday
- 11:40 17/11/2009
Gas consumption in Europe will fall a record 5-7% in 2009, Gazprom deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said on Tuesday.
