MOSCOW, September 13 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's investment index will open Thursday at 766.78 points, down 0.15% following Wednesday evening's sessions on major world trading floors.
// Sep. 13, 2007 - 05:44 GMT
TOKYO, September 13 (RIA Novosti) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who announced his intention to resign Wednesday, has been hospitalized, the Kyodo news agency reports.
// Sep. 13, 2007 - 05:50 GMT
MOSCOW, September 13 (RIA Novosti) – Credit institutions' balances on correspondent accounts with the Russian Central Bank totaled 518.6 billion rubles ($20.4 billion at the current exchange rates) at the beginning of the business day, up 0.4% from Wednesday, the CBR said Thursday.
// Sep. 13, 2007 - 06:22 GMT
MOSCOW, September 13 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's gold and foreign currency reserves increased by $1.1 billion, to $417.1 billion, in the week of August 31 – September 7, the Central Bank of Russia said Thursday.
// Sep. 13, 2007 - 06:31 GMT
WASHINGTON, September 13 (RIA Novosti) – State Department spokesman Sean McCormack has denied that Germany is opposed to a stepped-up sanctions regime against Iran, or that Washington has as a result despaired of a diplomatic solution to the standoff with Tehran.
// Sep. 13, 2007 - 06:41 GMT
JAKARTA, September 13 (RIA Novosti) – A new earthquake was registered near the western coast of Indonesia's island of Sumatra early Thursday, the country's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said.
// Sep. 13, 2007 - 06:45 GMT
ABU DHABI, September 13 (RIA Novosti) – Saudi Arabia is planning to close its border with Iraq to prevent Iraqi militants from entering the Kingdom and to discourage Iraq-bound religious extremists transiting the country, the Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh said Thursday.
// Sep. 13, 2007 - 07:17 GMT
MOSCOW, September 13 (RIA Novosti) – Almost 9,000 hectares (22,260 acres) of Russia's forests are ablaze, with 150 large-scale fires continuing to rage across the country, an emergencies situation ministry spokesman said.
// Sep. 13, 2007 - 07:19 GMT
MOSCOW, September 13 (RIA Novosti) – Pakistani troops killed some 30 Islamic militants in an operation in northwest Pakistan, the French newspaper Le Figaro said Thursday, citing a Pakistan Armed Forces spokesman.
// Sep. 13, 2007 - 07:26 GMT