Moldova will seek to develop cooperation with Russia and ask the Russian authorities to provide it with a loan, the Moldovan vice premier said ahead of his visit to Moscow on Friday.
// Dec. 11, 2009 - 01:10 GMT
Latvian businessman and politician, member of the right-wing People's Party Vilnis Grivinsh was killed in the neighborhood of the Latvian capital, Riga, local media said on Friday.
// Dec. 11, 2009 - 02:03 GMT
Brazil will spend some 900 million reals ($530 million) to assure security during the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, the country's justice minister has said.
// Dec. 11, 2009 - 02:48 GMT
Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko will discuss with his Bulgarian colleagues the implementation of Russian-Bulgarian joint energy projects during his visit to Sophia on Friday, the ministry's press service said.
// Dec. 11, 2009 - 03:38 GMT
Russia's Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu said inspectors had for years turned a blind eye to breaches of fire safety in a Perm nightclub, where a fire claimed 139 lives last week, a Russian daily said on Friday.
// Dec. 11, 2009 - 04:42 GMT
A group of youths have attacked the Moscow office of popular Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda with smoke bombs and firecrackers, the paper said on its website.
// Dec. 11, 2009 - 05:37 GMT
A letter addressed by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to the Communist leader of the Mongolian People's Republic has been put up for auction at Sotheby's, the auction house said on its website.
// Dec. 11, 2009 - 05:42 GMT
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which began on December 8, 2009 in Copenhagen, gathered representatives from 193 countries to discuss global climate change and other pressing environmental issues. Photo: Trees burnt during a peat fire in Indonesia. Indonesia contains 10% of the worldâ™s tropical forests but had been losing 1.08 million hectares of forest every year from 2000 through 2005 due to fires. </p>
// Dec. 11, 2009 - 06:07 GMT
North Korea said after a visit to Pyongyang by U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy that six-party talks on its nuclear program should restart. involve the two Koreas, China, the U.S., Russia and Japan.
// Dec. 11, 2009 - 06:13 GMT
At least six miners have died and another 13 are still trapped under the debris after a gas explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey, national media reported on Friday.
// Dec. 11, 2009 - 06:24 GMT