// Nov. 05, 2007 - 07:49 GMT

MOSCOW, November 5 (RIA Novosti) – The death toll in a fire that swept a retirement home in the central Russian region of Tula on Sunday has risen to 23 people, an emergencies ministry spokesman said on Monday.

// Nov. 05, 2007 - 08:26 GMT

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Vlad Grinkevich) – The China-Russia Friendship Year is finishing early this month with great pageantry. Economic contacts underlying the galas are asymmetrical-Russia has silently accepted the role of China's sales outlet and raw material supplier.

// Nov. 05, 2007 - 09:04 GMT

TBILISI, November 5 (RIA Novosti) – Georgia's opposition resumed protests in the capital on Monday, demanding a decision to move back parliamentary elections be cancelled, as well as the president resign.

// Nov. 05, 2007 - 09:28 GMT

NALCHIK, November 5 (RIA Novosti) – The bodies of nine hunters have been found in a wooded area in the southern Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, where police suspect they were killed after running across a militant group, a police source said on Monday.

// Nov. 05, 2007 - 10:25 GMT

KARACHI, November 5 (RIA Novosti) – Police and troops have cordoned off Supreme Court buildings in Pakistan's four provinces and courts in major cities to prevent opposition lawyers from holding protests against emergency rule.

// Nov. 05, 2007 - 11:53 GMT

HANOI, November 5 (RIA Novosti) – Floods have killed at least 48 people in central Vietnam in the past week, a disaster management center spokesman said on Monday.

// Nov. 05, 2007 - 12:26 GMT

WARSAW, November 5 (RIA Novosti) – Poland's outgoing prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynsky, resigned with his government on Monday after his conservative and nationalist party lost elections last month.

// Nov. 05, 2007 - 13:11 GMT

MOSCOW. (Gennady Bordyugov for RIA Novosti) – Anyone who has been following the stormy debate brought on by the 90th anniversary of the Great October Revolution may well wonder why its national aspects have been forgotten. Were they not intertwined with the social aspects?

// Nov. 05, 2007 - 13:31 GMT

TBILISI, November 5 (RIA Novosti) – Thousands of opposition supporters protested for the fourth consecutive day in Georgia's capital on Monday demanding the president's resignation and earlier elections.

// Nov. 05, 2007 - 14:19 GMT