* The Russian Foreign Ministry said one diplomat had been killed and four kidnapped in Baghdad

// Jun. 04, 2006 - 06:11 GMT

MOSCOW, June 4 (RIA Novosti) – Russian heavyweight boxer Nikolai Valuyev defended his WBA title Saturday by knocking out Jamaican challenger Owen Beck in the third round in Hanover, Germany.

// Jun. 04, 2006 - 06:42 GMT

Iraqi state television quoted Interior Ministry officials as saying that four Russian embassy employees kidnapped in Baghdad on Saturday have been released, but police sources said they had not received any word of a release.

// Jun. 04, 2006 - 07:39 GMT

June 4 (RIA Novosti) – Five police officers have been injured in separate blasts in the troubled Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus, the local law-enforcement bodies said Sunday.

// Jun. 04, 2006 - 07:41 GMT

Russia's Nikolai Valuev retained his WBA heavyweight title Saturday, stopping Jamaican challenger Owen Beck with a right uppercut in the third round.

// Jun. 04, 2006 - 07:42 GMT

Six people were killed in a collision of a passenger train with a bus in the central Russian region of Voronezh.

// Jun. 04, 2006 - 07:45 GMT

Venezuela has received a shipment of 30,000 new Russian rifles, weeks after Washington restricted U.S. arms sales to Caracas over concerns about President Hugo Chavez's ties to Cuba and Iran.

// Jun. 04, 2006 - 07:56 GMT

A Russian Embassy official in Baghdad said Saturday that one diplomat was killed and four diplomatic employees were abducted in the Iraqi capital.

// Jun. 04, 2006 - 08:04 GMT

Six people were killed in a collision of a passenger train with a bus in the central Russian region of Voronezh.

// Jun. 04, 2006 - 08:07 GMT

Iraqi state television quoted Interior Ministry officials as saying that four Russian embassy employees kidnapped in Baghdad on Saturday have been released, but police sources said they had not received any word of a release and the Interior Ministry denies the report.

// Jun. 04, 2006 - 08:41 GMT