// May. 24, 2011 - 13:54 GMT

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) confirmed fuel meltdown in three reactors at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

// May. 24, 2011 - 13:54 GMT

A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today

// May. 24, 2011 - 14:39 GMT

A group of recently discharged, drunken Russian soldiers took passengers hostage on a train in east Siberia on Tuesday, a police official told RIA Novosti.

// May. 24, 2011 - 14:54 GMT

Japan's government on Tuesday approved plans to set up an independent commission to investigate the crisis at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Kyodo news said.

// May. 24, 2011 - 15:48 GMT

It does not seem a very wise move that a group of South Korean lawmakers would visit one of the Kuril islands, the subject of a long-standing territorial dispute between Russia and Japan, as part of their campaign to manifest Koreaâ™s sovereignty over Dokdo islands in the East Sea. First of all, there is little similarity between Dokdo and any of the four islands which have been under Russian jurisdiction since the end of World War II. </p>

// May. 24, 2011 - 15:57 GMT

A recent meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia, Germany and Poland may have signaled the start of a rapprochement among three countries with fundamentally different narratives of World War II 

// May. 24, 2011 - 16:00 GMT

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton had an embarrassing moment while delivering a public speech in Montenegro. He mixed up Montenegro with Macedonia and called on the Balkan countries to âœget integrated into Europe.â� </p>

// May. 24, 2011 - 16:25 GMT

An explosion occurred at an oil refinery in Iran during a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, media reports said on Tuesday.

// May. 24, 2011 - 16:31 GMT

Moscow rugby side Slava hammered their local rivals Spartak GM 53–0 on Monday night in an eight-try Russian championship match.

// May. 24, 2011 - 16:33 GMT