TOKYO, August 23 (RIA Novosti) – South Korea will start shipping food and medical supplies to Pyongyang Thursday as part of a $7.5-million humanitarian aid package following devastating flooding in North Korea, Seoul's Yonhap news agency said.
// Aug. 23, 2007 - 05:05 GMT
(Adds details in para 4–5 background in paras 6–7)
// Aug. 23, 2007 - 05:50 GMT
MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's investment index will open Thursday at 727.89 points, up 2.47% following Wednesday evening's sessions on major world trading floors.
// Aug. 23, 2007 - 06:11 GMT
MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) – Credit institutions' balances on correspondent accounts with the Russian Central Bank totaled 389.1 billion rubles ($15.1 billion at the current exchange rates) at the beginning of the business day, down 5.6% from Wednesday, the CBR said Thursday.
// Aug. 23, 2007 - 06:18 GMT
MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's gold and foreign currency reserves dropped $5.5 billion, to $414.7 billion, in the week of August 10 – August 17, the Central Bank of Russia said Thursday.
// Aug. 23, 2007 - 06:21 GMT
MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's government will spend 263 billion rubles ($10.2 billion) on national projects during 2007, 12% more than the figure originally set out in the annual budget, the Finance Ministry said.
// Aug. 23, 2007 - 06:22 GMT
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, August 23 (RIA Novosti) – The 12th meeting of a Russia-U.S. regional economic forum involving 11 regions in Russia's Far East and eight U.S. states will be held August 28–30, the Sakhalin Region's administration said Thursday.
// Aug. 23, 2007 - 06:49 GMT
GAZA STRIP, August 23 (RIA Novosti) – At least five militants of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas were wounded in an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza early Thursday, local medical staff said.
// Aug. 23, 2007 - 06:55 GMT
KEMEROVO, August 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's resumption of long-distance strategic bomber patrol flights, suspended after the collapse of the Soviet Union, does not imply a return to the Cold War, a top government official said Thursday.
// Aug. 23, 2007 - 07:04 GMT
MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Air Force has suspended all Su-24 strike aircraft flights following a crash in the country's Far East early Thursday, an AF spokesman said.
// Aug. 23, 2007 - 08:08 GMT