- 22:54 21/11/2009
China has pledged to continue its support of UN peacekeeping operations, while a senior army official said the missions also need major reforms to meet new challenges.
- 22:05 21/11/2009
Iran will launch a large-scale air-defense exercise to protect its nuclear plants against any attack, a senior military official said on Saturday.
- 21:00 21/11/2009
Palestinian militant groups in Gaza have agreed not to fire rockets into Israel to avoid a possible military backlash, Hamas' interior minister said Saturday.
- 19:51 21/11/2009
India has proposed urgent reforms in the operation of the World Trade Organization, the Press Trust of India reported Saturday.
- 18:48 21/11/2009
Tehran rejects threats as part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare against it and calls for more talks on the nuclear issue, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.
- 17:54 21/11/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped below 50% for the first time since he took office, according the latest Gallup poll.
- 15:26 21/11/2009
At least 42 people have died and 66 remain trapped following a major gas explosion in a coal mine in northwest China's Heilongjiang province, state media said.
- 11:52 21/11/2009
The United States will send a group of experts on Korean affairs to North Korea on Saturday for talks on the country's nuclear program, ahead of a visit by Washington's envoy, Yonhap news agency said.
- 10:45 21/11/2009
The UN General Assembly's human rights committee has passed a resolution condemning the Iranian government for the crackdown on protests following the June presidential election.
- 08:56 21/11/2009
At least 31 people have died and around 90 remain trapped following a major gas explosion in a coal mine in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, state media said.
- 07:59 21/11/2009
Fifteen people died and over 100 are trapped after an explosion early on Saturday at a mine in northeastern China.
- 05:21 21/11/2009
Political directors, or deputy foreign ministers, from Russia, the U.S., the U.K., China, Germany and France held talks in Brussels Friday urging Iran to agree to a UN-proposed scheme.
- 02:59 21/11/2009
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is starting his official visit to the United States on Saturday.
- 00:00 21/11/2009
A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
