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Cuban President Raul Castro criticized the U.S. over its Latin American policies on Monday.
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The first of a total of 30,000 extra U.S. soldiers to be deployed to Afghanistan will arrive in the country this week, the head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the observance of sanctions against Pyongyang following last week's seizure in Thailand of a cargo plane loaded with North Korean weapons.
The Russian government on Monday ordered the federal agencies concerned to intensify efforts to join the World Trade Organization (WTO).
A total of 59 tigers were killed by poachers in India in 2009, which is over twice the amount killed last year, India's environment ministry said on Monday.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday there was still time for diplomacy on the Iran nuclear issue but called for tough new sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Afghanistan's army and security forces will be able to maintain security in the country within four years, an Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
Azerbaijan and Iran have set an ambitious goal of expanding bilateral trade to $1 billion from the current $600 million, the countries' foreign ministers said on Monday.
Italy's interior minister said on Monday yesterday's attack on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could have been fatal and pledged measures to improve his security.
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on Monday that road construction, ship-building and engineering were priority areas for cooperation between Croatia and Russia.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday, the Kremlin press service said on Monday.
Russia's federal budget revenues from energy product exports have reached 1.8 trillion rubles ($60 billion) so far this year, 31% more than for the whole of 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said on Monday.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will spend at least one more night in a Milan hospital after being attacked during a rally.
Russian and French delegations will meet later this month to discuss the possible sale of a French warship.
Chile will hold a second round of voting in its presidential election on January 17, after none of the candidates garnered more than 50% in the first round, national media reported
Taliban militants attacked checkpoints in northern and southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 16 Afghan policemen. 
The leaders of China and three Central Asian countries inaugurated on Monday a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to China
The United States will only agree to sign a peace treaty with North Korea if Pyongyang abandons its nuclear weapons program, a U.S. diplomat said.
Nauru, the world's smallest island state, has offered to join Russia in recognizing two Georgia's two former republics as independent states if paid $50 million by Moscow, the Kommersant daily reported.
The foreign minister of New Zealand is due in Moscow on Wednesday for a two-day visit including talks with his Russian counterpart, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.



