MAKHACHKALA, September 30 (RIA Novosti) – Violence hit Russia's north Caucasus republic of Daghestan early Sunday as nine civilians and a senior police official were shot dead by unknown assailants in separate incidents, a police official said.
// Sep. 30, 2007 - 08:55 GMT
BEIJING, September 30 (RIA Novosti) – Six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program are to break for two days as participants work on the wording of a document on the country's denuclearization, the top Chinese envoy said Sunday.
// Sep. 30, 2007 - 10:15 GMT
KIEV, September 30 (RIA Novosti) – Early parliamentary elections designed to end a protracted political crisis fueled by rivalry between the president and the prime minister began in Ukraine Sunday.
// Sep. 30, 2007 - 10:24 GMT
TOKYO, September 30 (RIA Novosti) -Tokyo is ready to join any proposed international economic sanctions against the ruling junta in Myanmar, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura told journalists Sunday.
// Sep. 30, 2007 - 10:54 GMT
Buenos Aires, September 30 (RIA Novosti) – An Argentinean soccer team has won the 2007 Gay World Cup in Buenos Aires.
// Sep. 30, 2007 - 11:18 GMT
TOKYO, September 30 (RIA Novosti) – Japan plans to extend economic sanctions against North Korea for another six months over the lack of progress in the issue of the abduction of Japanese nationals, a Cabinet spokesman said on Sunday.
// Sep. 30, 2007 - 11:36 GMT
VLADIVOSTOK, September 28 (RIA Novosti) – The joint Russian-U.S. naval exercise Pacific Eagle 2007, held in the Amur Gulf near Vladivostok, ended on Sunday, Russia's Pacific Fleet press office said.
// Sep. 30, 2007 - 11:52 GMT
TEHRAN, September 30 (RIA Novosti) – Tehran will continue cooperation with the UN atomic agency to avoid tougher sanctions over its disputed nuclear program, a senior Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday.
// Sep. 30, 2007 - 12:51 GMT
MOSCOW, September 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday he was certain that the March 2008 presidential elections would see "unexpected" candidates entering the race.
// Sep. 30, 2007 - 13:17 GMT
(Adds turnout in para 2, Tymoshenko quotes in paras 8, 9)
// Sep. 30, 2007 - 14:42 GMT