CAIRO, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – A husband and a wife from the southern Egyptian city of Asyut have been hospitalized with serious injuries after a violent disagreement over their newborn son's name, local media said on Monday.
// Nov. 12, 2007 - 13:13 GMT
MOSCOW, November 9 (RIA Novosti) – About 80,000 drug-related deaths are registered annually in Russia, Alexander Yanevsky of the Federal Drugs Control Service said on Friday.
// Nov. 09, 2007 - 12:32 GMT
MAKHACHKALA, October 16 (RIA Novosti) – The tradition of bride kidnapping, outlawed in the 19th century, has seen a surge in popular in Daghestan, a republic in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, a local interior ministry said Tuesday.
// Oct. 16, 2007 - 11:48 GMT
RIO DE JANEIRO, October 11 (RIA Novosti) – A 40 year-old woman from Sao Paolo, southeast Brazil, has given birth to her 18th child, local media reported.
// Oct. 11, 2007 - 08:41 GMT
LONDON, October 8 (RIA Novosti) – Millhouse Capital, a company managing Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich's assets, has refused to comment on media reports that fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky handed him a writ in a London shop.
// Oct. 08, 2007 - 12:37 GMT
STRASBOURG, October 5 (RIA Novosti) – A group of parliamentarians from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe proposed on Friday holding an international investigation into the murder of Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya.
Politkovskaya, known for her criticism of the Kremlin's policy in Chechnya, was gunned down in an apparent contract killing in an elevator in her apartment building on October 7, 2006 in Moscow. She was 48.
A group of 34 PACE parliamentarians from Bulgaria, Germany, Norway, Romania, Moldova, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Georgia, Albania, Serbia and Spain signed a statement calling on Moscow not to interfere in the investigation.
The parliamentarians also called on the countries of the Council of Europe to acknowledge the critical situation regarding independent journalists in Russia. According to data from the international rights organization Reporters Without Borders, 21 journalists have been murdered in Russia since 2000.
The Reporters Without Borders secretary general said Friday that the organization is concerned over the lack of clarity in the Russian investigation into Politkovskaya's murder.
// Oct. 05, 2007 - 16:51 GMT
MOSCOW, October 3 (RIA Novosti) – Andrei Lugovoi and Kommersant, a leading Russian business daily, agreed Wednesday to keep working on an out-of-court agreement on the businessman's $800,000 lawsuit against the newspaper until November 6.
// Oct. 03, 2007 - 10:21 GMT
MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) – A new lawyer has been assigned to Alexander Pichushkin, charged with 49 murders and three attempted murders, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom Monday.
// Sep. 24, 2007 - 15:29 GMT
BEIJING, September 19 (RIA Novosti) – Wang is the most popular surname among residents of the Chinese capital, closely followed by Zhang, the Beijing Daily said Wednesday.
// Sep. 19, 2007 - 12:02 GMT
CHELYABINSK, September 14, RIA Novosti. – Over 100,000 worshippers in the South Urals are expected to bow to the relics of St. John Chrysostom. The relics are to arrive in the Chelyabinsk Region from Moscow on Saturday, Feofilakt the Bishop of Magnitogorsk, the diocesan vicar of Chelyabinsk, told RIA Novosti.
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