French President Nicolas Sarkozy has refused to give asylum to Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who fled his country amid protests that turned violent on Friday, French media reported.
At least 90 pilgrims were killed and dozens more injured at a stampede at a religious festival in southern India on Friday, the PTI news agency said.
The prime minister has taken control of power in Tunisia after President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country on Friday afternoon, Al Jazeera reported.
Russian air traffic controllers should have banned any landing attempt by the crashed Polish presidential plane crew, Polish Interior Minister Jerzy Miller said.
Russia`s chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko has called on Russians to eat only domestic food over the dioxin scandal in Germany.
The German agriculture ministry said it had not exported products believed to be contaminated with dioxins, Russia`s chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said.
The Chance, a short film by Russian Director Sonya Karpunina has won the main prize of the international Kustendorf Film Festival in Serbia.
The Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) has sent Poland a final report of the deadly plane crash that killed then Polish President Lech Kaczynski in April 2010.
Russian state-owned pipeline operator Transneft has denied reports that it hired a member of the Russian spy ring uncovered in the United States in June, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
Costa Rica is attempting to create an armed conflict with neighboring Nicaragua, Nicaraguan Army spokesman Juan Morales said citing counterintelligence information.
Russia cancelled its flour export ban on January 1, after the government decided to ease the ban following appeals from flour millers who fear losing foreign customers.
Religious organizations in Russia have begun efforts to help the thousands of passengers stranded for days in Moscow airports.
Russia`s Emergencies Ministry has sent a plane with humanitarian aid to Colombia which has been severely affected by devastating floods.
The death toll from an outbreak of cholera in Haiti has risen to 2,707 people, the Caribbean country`s health ministry (MSPP) said.
Germany`s Marida Marguerite tanker and its crew, held by pirates for almost nine months, may soon be released as a ransom of $5.5 million was finally paid, Germany`s DPA news agency said.
Russia`s Proton-M delivery vehicle lifted off early on Monday from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, carrying a European telecommunications satellite Ka-Sat on board.
An active volcano on Russia`s Kamchatka Peninsula is currently spewing plumes of ash at a height of up to 4.3 kilometers (2.67 miles), Russian scientists reported on Monday.
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake was registered early on Monday off the coast of Vanuatu in southwestern Pacific, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its website.
Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who is accused of misusing government funds, has been summoned again for questioning at the Prosecutor General`s Office, her party`s press service said on Wednesday.
South Korea started on Wednesday three-day military exercises in the Sea of Japan some 100 km south of the disputed border with North Korea, Yonhap news agency cited a spokesman for the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying.
A court in Siberia`s Irkutsk region has found five police officers guilty of torturing suspects, the local investigations committee said on Wednesday.
Seventeen people, including six Belarusian presidential candidates, are facing lengthy jail terms for spearheading protests against the re-election of long-standing President Alexander Lukashenko.
All three branches of power are operating properly in Kyrgyzstan, and the country has returned its constitutional statehood, the country`s president, Roza Otunbayeva, said on Tuesday.
The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry has blasted the presidential election in Belarus on Sunday calling them as `undemocratic.`
A photographer from a St. Petersburg newspaper sentenced to 15-day jail term in Belarus for participating in Sunday`s opposition riots in Minsk has declared a hunger strike and has demanded a meeting with the Russian ambassador, Ekho Moskvy radio station said on Tuesday.