MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti) – A Soyuz-FG carrier rocket launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan has put four U.S. Globalstar communications satellites into orbit, the Russian Federal Space Agency said on Sunday.
// Oct. 21, 2007 - 07:46 GMT
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// Oct. 21, 2007 - 08:19 GMT
WARSAW, October 21 (RIA Novosti) – Poland is voting Sunday in an early parliamentary election, with Poles set to choose between their nationalist incumbent prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and center-right pro-business challenger Donald Tusk.
// Oct. 21, 2007 - 09:16 GMT
MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti) – Four bodies and the wreckage of a foreign-made helicopter have been found in the Kemerovo Region in West Siberia, a spokesman for the regional emergency service said on Sunday.
// Oct. 21, 2007 - 09:38 GMT
BISHKEK, October 21 (RIA Novosti) – Kyrgyzstan voted on Sunday in a referendum on a new Constitution intended to strengthen President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's power and end a long-lasting political crisis in the Central Asian republic.
// Oct. 21, 2007 - 10:43 GMT
(Recasts, adds additional information in paras 2–3)
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ANKARA, October 21 (RIA Novosti) – Turkey's General Staff said on Sunday that 23 Kurdish rebels and 12 Turkish soldiers had been killed in clashes near the border with Iraq.
// Oct. 21, 2007 - 12:19 GMT
TEHRAN, October 21 (RIA Novosti) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Jalili as Iran's top representative in negotiations on the country's controversial nuclear program.
// Oct. 21, 2007 - 12:56 GMT
ANKARA, October 21 (RIA Novosti) – Turkey's General Staff said on Sunday that the army had killed 32 Kurdish rebels while 12 Turkish soldiers had been killed and another 16 wounded in clashes near the border with Iraq.
// Oct. 21, 2007 - 15:02 GMT