The international community will provide all necessary aid to refugees from war-torn South Ossetia following Georgia's assault on its breakaway republic, Europe's main security and human rights watchdog said on Sunday.
// Aug. 17, 2008 - 08:06 GMT
The political fate of Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia must be decided by South Ossetians themselves, Europe's main security and human rights watchdog said on Sunday.
// Aug. 17, 2008 - 08:48 GMT
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks for larger role of Europe's main security and human rights watchdog in the Georgian-South Ossetia conflict zone, the Kremlin press office said on Sunday.
// Aug. 17, 2008 - 09:07 GMT
Russia's Yelena Dementyeva has won the gold medal in the final of women's tennis event of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, after beating her compatriot Dinara Safina 3–6, 7–5, 6–3.
// Aug. 17, 2008 - 09:29 GMT
Russia rejected on Sunday the Georgian authorities' statements that Russian peacekeepers had allegedly occupied the Georgian villages of Khashuri and Akhalgori.
// Aug. 17, 2008 - 10:46 GMT
Three miners were killed following an accident at a coal mine in southwest Siberia, a local representative of Russia's industrial safety watchdog said on Sunday.
// Aug. 17, 2008 - 11:06 GMT
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday during a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that Russian troops would start their pullout from Georgia on August 18.
// Aug. 17, 2008 - 11:28 GMT
The armed conflict between Georgia and Russia over breakaway South Ossetia wiped $7 billion off the Russian stock market, Russia's Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Sunday.
// Aug. 17, 2008 - 13:13 GMT
Israel approved on Sunday the early release of some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the press office of the Israeli cabinet said.
// Aug. 17, 2008 - 13:55 GMT