- 22:58 19/12/2009
Iran is willing to consider a recent Western proposal that it could obtain nuclear fuel from outside sources rather than produce it itself, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday, according to the official IRNA news agency.
- 22:21 19/12/2009
The Indian Defense Ministry on Saturday urged the private sector to take advantage of its Offset Policy that will create a 10-billion opportunity in the next five years to manufacturers and service providers, according to the Press Trust of India.
- 21:27 19/12/2009
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday the German mediator in the Gilad Shalit talks has given Israel two to three weeks to approve a prisoner swap deal to free the kidnapped soldier, according to Ynet.
- 20:39 19/12/2009
Iran has rejected reports that its forces have taken over an oil well in Iraq, Press TV said on Saturday.
- 18:58 19/12/2009
Russia condemned on Saturday the demolition of a memorial to WWII heroes in Georgia as an act of barbarism and state vandalism.
- 18:01 19/12/2009
The UN climate conference in Copenhagen has produced little tangible results, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday.
- 17:19 19/12/2009
The presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan agreed Saturday to create a single economic space by January 1, 2012.
- 16:29 19/12/2009
Two people were killed in an explosion on Saturday when a memorial to WWII heroes was demolished in Georgia's second largest city, Kutaisi, Imedi TV company reported.
- 15:47 19/12/2009
The International Monetary Fund's Executive Board has decided to allocate an additional fourth loan tranche of $688 million to Belarus, according to an IMF press release on Saturday.
- 13:38 19/12/2009
The climate summit in Copenhagen has agreed and accepted a summary document, a Russian delegation member said on Saturday.
- 12:47 19/12/2009
The president of the former Georgian republic of South Ossetia pardoned on Saturday three Georgians and has officially released them to Tbilisi officials, a presidential spokeswoman told RIA Novosti.
- 11:59 19/12/2009
Afghanistan's first vice-president on Saturday introduced ministerial candidates of newly reelected President Hamid Karzai's government to the country's lower house of parliament for approval.
- 11:15 19/12/2009
Some 2,000 passengers were trapped under the English Channel when four trains broke down inside the underwater tunnel on Friday night.
- 10:21 19/12/2009
Russia's ambassador to Great Britain has refused to pay London some $4.6 million for diplomats driving into the city center because it violates the Vienna Convention on diplomatic privileges and immunity.
- 06:21 19/12/2009
China opened its Consulate-General in Russia's East Siberian city of Irkutsk on Friday to promote regional ties between two countries, Xinhua news agency reported.
- 03:34 19/12/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama said the UN climate change Copenhagen conference is a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough."
- 03:02 19/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev begins his three-day visit to Kazakhstan on Saturday to discuss a customs union and a single economic space with presidents of Kazakhstan and Belarus.
- 01:44 19/12/2009
Ukraine repaid $5.75 billion of its over $100 billion foreign debt in 2009.
- 00:00 19/12/2009
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