* Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Ali Larijani, top nuclear negotiator of Iran, which is facing international sanctions over its controversial nuclear program

// Nov. 12, 2006 - 07:07 GMT

Vladimir Klitschko of Ukraine has retained the International Boxing Federation heavyweight world title when he stopped previously unbeaten challenger Calvin Brock in the seventh round at Madison Square Garden.

// Nov. 12, 2006 - 08:14 GMT

A jury in southern Russia acquitted a man being retried for an apartment building blast in 1999 that killed 64 people and led to Moscow's renewed military campaign in Chechnya.

// Nov. 12, 2006 - 08:14 GMT

Voters in South Ossetia are going to the polls in a referendum that the region's leadership hopes will lead to its separation from Georgia.

// Nov. 12, 2006 - 08:14 GMT

The Russian missile forces chief said that the military had decided to keep its heaviest intercontinental ballistic missiles in service for another decade.

// Nov. 12, 2006 - 08:14 GMT

MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia is voting Sunday in a referendum on independence.

// Nov. 12, 2006 - 08:33 GMT

MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – A higher minimum wage will help fight grey schemes, the speaker of the lower house of Russia's parliament said Sunday.

// Nov. 12, 2006 - 08:53 GMT

TEHRAN, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Iran intends to install 3,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges by March 2007, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Sunday.

// Nov. 12, 2006 - 09:52 GMT

GROZNY, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Two soldiers were wounded in a blast in the troubled Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus, the local interior ministry said Sunday.

// Nov. 12, 2006 - 10:14 GMT

The Russian missile forces chief said that the military had decided to keep its heaviest intercontinental ballistic missiles in service for another decade.

// Nov. 12, 2006 - 10:43 GMT