- 22:57 08/12/2009
Russia will see a significant fall in its natural gas exports if it signs a 'post-Kyoto protocol,' a LUKoil executive said on Tuesday.
- 21:32 08/12/2009
A treaty due to replace the Kyoto Protocol will not satisfy Russia if it obliges only developed countries to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 20:57 08/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that a series of deadly blasts in Baghdad would fail to damage the development of democracy in Iraq.
- 20:15 08/12/2009
Mercosur trade bloc countries said on Tuesday they would not recognize the results of the Honduran presidential polls and condemned the July 28 military coup in the country, Latin American media reported.
- 20:14 08/12/2009
The Iranian opposition is pro-reform rather than anti-Islamic or anti-establishment, Russian experts said on Tuesday.
- 18:15 08/12/2009
Experts from The Economist Intelligence Unit named Copenhagen Europe's "greenest" major city, followed by Stockholm, Oslo, Vienna and Amsterdam.
- 17:28 08/12/2009
Russia will decide whether to join the WTO individually or as part of a customs union after completing talks with the U.S. in 2010, Kremlin economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Tuesday
- 17:18 08/12/2009
Russia's MiG aircraft maker said on Tuesday it has delivered the first four MiG-29 Fulcrum-D carrier-based fighter jets to India.
- 17:09 08/12/2009
Russia will decide by the end of 2009 whether to purchase a Mistral class amphibious assault ship from France, the chief of Russia's General Staff said on Tuesday.
- 14:11 08/12/2009
China hopes for positive results of the U.S.-North Korea talks on persuading Pyongyang to return to the six-party negotiations on the Korean peninsula denuclearization, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said on Tuesday.
- 13:39 08/12/2009
At least 100 people were killed and more than 100 were injured as a result of coordinated bomb attacks in Iraq's capital of Baghdad on Tuesday, Euronews reported.
- 13:10 08/12/2009
Russia's aluminum giant RusAl said on Tuesday it had appointed two Hong Kong representatives as independent directors to its board of directors as the company was preparing an initial public offering (IPO) on the Asian trading floor.
- 12:45 08/12/2009
Afghan citizens in the eastern Laghman province staged a shocking demonstration on Tuesday condemning NATO for killing civilians during a military operation near the provincial administrative center, local television reported.
- 12:08 08/12/2009
At least 20 people were killed when two powerful blasts occurred on Tuesday in Pakistan's eastern city of Multan in the Punjab Province, local television reported.
- 12:02 08/12/2009
Russia's Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday the Russian economy needed to become more open to create innovative products and compete effectively on global markets.
- 11:15 08/12/2009
Doctors plan to amputate a leg of the Russian bobsledder who remains in an induced coma in a German clinic after a training session accident, the chief coach of the Russian national team said.
- 06:31 08/12/2009
Eight children were killed and 26 other injured in a stampede at a school in China's central Hunan Province, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.
- 05:36 08/12/2009
Iranians should know that the United States supports their peaceful demonstrations and is still concerned with the human rights situation in their country
- 04:35 08/12/2009
Virgin Galactic, a U.S. space tourism company, has unveiled to the public its first SpaceShipTwo commercial six-passenger space vehicle.
