Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov starts on Saturday a tree-day Middle East tour, which will take him to Syria and Lebanon.

// Oct. 17, 2009 - 00:17 GMT

No suspects in a recent terrorist attack in the center of Moldova's capital have been apprehended so far

// Oct. 17, 2009 - 01:19 GMT

The U.S. Department of State has granted a senior North Korean government official and his delegation a permission to attend two international conferences in the United States.

// Oct. 17, 2009 - 02:14 GMT

A death toll from a recent suicide bombing in a Sunni Mosque in northern Iraq rose to 14 with over 90 people injured

// Oct. 17, 2009 - 03:19 GMT

At least 32 people were killed and 10 injured in an explosion following a fire at a wholesale firecracker shop in southern India

// Oct. 17, 2009 - 03:53 GMT

Talks on a post-coup crisis in Honduras have reached deadlock with the de facto Honduran president refusing to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya, the former Honduran foreign minister has said.

// Oct. 17, 2009 - 05:25 GMT

A joint border committee has signed a deal demarcating the border between Kosovo and Macedonia, the Kosovar media said on Saturday.

// Oct. 17, 2009 - 06:24 GMT

The U.S. extradited on Saturday a Russian citizen facing charges of robbery, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said on its website.

// Oct. 17, 2009 - 07:26 GMT

The Russian tourists thought to be missing in China have never been lost and will fly back home on Tuesday, a senior official at the Russian Tourism Federation said on Saturday.

// Oct. 17, 2009 - 08:10 GMT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Belgrade on October 20 will help deepen Russian-Serbian ties, Serbia's president has said, as quoted by national media.

// Oct. 17, 2009 - 15:53 GMT