| November 2009 |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The U.S. ambassador said Russia and the United States have good chances of signing a new nuclear arms reduction treaty this year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The inauguration of re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai will be held in Kabul on November 19 amid unprecedented security measures.
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.
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.
The Czech Republic marks on Tuesday the 20th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution that overthrew the communist regime in then Czechoslovakia.
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.
Japan has the highest suicide rate in the group of seven industrialized nations, according to a report published on Tuesday
Gas consumption in Europe will fall a record 5-7% in 2009, Gazprom deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said on Tuesday. 



