The death toll in a fire that swept through a state-run nursery in north-western Mexico has risen to 38, with 15 more in a critical condition, Mexican health officials said on Sunday.
// Jun. 07, 2009 - 06:44 GMT
Russia could use its grain intervention fund to provide humanitarian aid to countries facing starvation amid the global economic crisis, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Sunday.
// Jun. 07, 2009 - 10:14 GMT
Brazilian search teams have found two male bodies from the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic last week, and are continuing to search a large area of the ocean.
// Jun. 07, 2009 - 10:53 GMT
Russia could set up joint ventures with other countries for the development of unused arable land, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Sunday.
// Jun. 07, 2009 - 10:54 GMT
Russia's first deputy prime minister told a grain forum in St. Petersburg on Sunday that new countries must be admitted to the world grain market to ensure stable production.
// Jun. 07, 2009 - 11:07 GMT
One police officer was killed and another injured in a militant attack in the south Russian republic of Ingushetia on Sunday morning, investigators said.
// Jun. 07, 2009 - 11:19 GMT
The Russian Agricultural Bank, the country's largest state-run banking institution extending loans to domestic agribusiness, could place an additional $1 billion in Eurobonds, the bank's CEO said on Sunday.
// Jun. 07, 2009 - 11:38 GMT
Egypt's top prosecutor has ordered an import company to return a large delivery of wheat purchased from Russia and reimburse the state, the Egyptian news agency MENA reported on Sunday.
// Jun. 07, 2009 - 11:58 GMT