At least eight people died and another eighteen were injured after a bus collided with a truck in the Leningrad Region in northwest Russia, the regional emergencies center said on Sunday.
// Jun. 29, 2008 - 07:39 GMT
At least six people were injured after two bombs went off in the Black Sea resort city of Gagry in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia, local police said on Sunday.
// Jun. 29, 2008 - 08:59 GMT
Eleven children aged 3–6 were hospitalized with an apparent stomach infection in the East Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, a spokeswoman for the city's health department said on Sunday.
// Jun. 29, 2008 - 09:49 GMT
Three police and three civilians have been killed in two separate clashes with militants in the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya, a local law-enforcement official said on Sunday.
// Jun. 29, 2008 - 10:04 GMT
Public sector wages in Russia will increase by 30% from December 1, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
// Jun. 29, 2008 - 11:02 GMT
Iran is concluding the study of new incentives aimed at halting its controversial nuclear program, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reza Sheikh Attar said on Sunday.
// Jun. 29, 2008 - 12:12 GMT
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine over its plans to join NATO and said Russia would transfer its space and hi-tech facilities to domestic soil, if the ex-Soviet republic enters the alliance.
// Jun. 29, 2008 - 13:31 GMT
The Bushehr nuclear power plant being built in Iran will be launched in October, a high-ranking Iranian nuclear official said on Sunday.
// Jun. 29, 2008 - 14:14 GMT
China's authorities and representatives of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will resume talks in early July, the news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.
// Jun. 29, 2008 - 15:08 GMT
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe won on Sunday the presidential election, in which he was the only candidate, the news agency France Presse said.
// Jun. 29, 2008 - 15:22 GMT