ASTANA, August 19 (RIA Novosti) – President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party has won 88% of votes in a parliamentary election, with all other parties falling short of the 7% vote share required to enter parliament, preliminary results showed Sunday.
// Aug. 19, 2007 - 07:15 GMT
WASHINGTON D.C., August 19 (RIA Novosti) – The U.S. space agency has decided to bring shuttle Endeavour back to Earth a day earlier due to worries about powerful Hurricane Dean, a NASA official said Sunday.
// Aug. 19, 2007 - 08:35 GMT
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// Aug. 19, 2007 - 09:23 GMT
SEOUL, August 19 (RIA Novosti) – Taliban militants have threatened to start killing South Korean hostages, if the Afghan government does not release eight Taliban prisoners by Monday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Sunday.
// Aug. 19, 2007 - 10:03 GMT
ROSTOV-ON-DON, August 19 (RIA Novosti) – A total of 123 children have fallen ill in a case of mass food poisoning that has hit kindergartens in the Stavropol Territory, southern Russia, the local emergencies service said Sunday.
// Aug. 19, 2007 - 11:19 GMT
WASHINGTON D.C., August 19 (RIA Novosti) – Shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 7:56 a.m. EDT Sunday, ending an almost nine-day stay at the world's sole orbiter, a NASA Houston mission control spokesperson said.
// Aug. 19, 2007 - 12:54 GMT
TEHRAN, August 19 (RIA Novosti) – A delegation of the UN nuclear watchdog arrives in Tehran Monday for a new round of talks with the Islamic Republic aimed at allaying international concerns over Iran's nuclear program.
// Aug. 19, 2007 - 14:11 GMT
TBILISI, August 19 (RIA Novosti) – About fifty people have been injured after a bridge collapsed in western Georgia, a spokesman for the Georgian president's envoy to the region said Sunday.
// Aug. 19, 2007 - 14:37 GMT