Russia and China used their UN Security Council vetoes to block Western nations' proposals for sanctions against the Zimbabwe regime, which has been widely condemned over recent election violence.
// Jul. 12, 2008 - 08:20 GMT
At least 22 people have died following a head-on collision between a bus carrying school teachers and an empty fuel tanker in western Brazil, national media reported.
// Jul. 12, 2008 - 08:45 GMT
Police in Russia's Far East port city of Vladivostok have seized more than 3kg (7 pounds) of heroin from an unemployed man, a local police source told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
// Jul. 12, 2008 - 08:57 GMT
Russia's ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, said on Friday: “We believe it would be a disservice to the memories of hundreds of thousands of people who died of hunger in other countries and regions of the former Soviet Union to raise this issue at the UN, in relation to only one of the regions that suffered.”
// Jul. 12, 2008 - 09:19 GMT
Russia welcomes the new unity government formed in Lebanon, ending a long-running political crisis, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
// Jul. 12, 2008 - 09:58 GMT
North Korea agreed to fully disable its nuclear facilities by the end of October in exchange for fuel and economic aid, in a deal signed on Saturday after six-nation talks.
// Jul. 12, 2008 - 10:44 GMT
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told parliamentary party leaders on Saturday that a new anti-corruption plan will be signed in the near future.
// Jul. 12, 2008 - 11:03 GMT
Russia strongly rejects claims by the U.S. and the U.K. that it is an unreliable G8 partner following Moscow's veto of sanctions against Zimbabwe's regime, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
// Jul. 12, 2008 - 12:41 GMT