Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos is arriving in Russia on Sunday to discuss political aspects of bilateral relations, and also economic and cultural cooperation with Russian leaders.
// Jun. 01, 2008 - 07:49 GMT
Russia's oil export duty will rise to a record $398.1 per metric ton from June 1, 2008, in line with global market trends.
// Jun. 01, 2008 - 08:04 GMT
Space shuttle Discovery has blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station, NASA said. The lift off took place at 17:02 local time (21:02 GMT) on Saturday and marked the third shuttle launch this year and the 35th for Discovery.
// Jun. 01, 2008 - 08:51 GMT
Macedonia is voting on Sunday in an early parliamentary election, with Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's coalition VMRO-DPMNE expected to win the poll.
// Jun. 01, 2008 - 09:38 GMT
Iran will continue to enrich uranium despite the UN nuclear watchdog's call to halt the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on Sunday.
// Jun. 01, 2008 - 11:34 GMT
Police detained thirteen people at an unauthorized gay parade in the center of Moscow, a spokesman for the Russian capital's interior department said on Sunday.
// Jun. 01, 2008 - 11:54 GMT
Rescuers have found the body of a miner who died in a coalmine incident in West Siberia, the press office of the regional administration said.
// Jun. 01, 2008 - 13:41 GMT
The bodies of two more miners that were trapped in a coalmine in west Siberia, have been found, bringing the death toll to three, a deputy regional governor said on Sunday. The incident at the mine named after Lenin in Mezhdurechensk in the south of the Kemerovo Region occurred on May 30. A total of 17 miners worked in the coalmine at the time of the rock collapse.
// Jun. 01, 2008 - 14:37 GMT