Israel is interested in maintaining and developing good relations with Russia despite its dissatisfaction over Russian contacts with the Palestinian Hamas movement, the Israeli foreign minister told a local TV channel on Monday.
Iran may start sending low-enriched uranium to Turkey within a month after signing an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the ISNA news agency said Monday.
A second wave of Greece`s financial crisis is still possible but current market trends are encouraging, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Dmitry Pankin said.
Conservative leader David Cameron, who took over as British prime minister on Tuesday, has vowed to form a full coalition government with the Liberal Democrat party.
Ukrainian prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation against former Ukrainian premier and current opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko over an alleged misuse of state funds, the UNIAN news agency said.
The Mozyr oil refinery in Belarus has started refining the first shipment of oil imported from Venezuela, a spokesman for the refinery said.
North Korea announced on Wednesday it has successfully carried out a nuclear fusion experiment in a further development of cutting-edge nuclear technology, the Yonhap news agency reported.
Rescuers found eight more bodies overnight at a west Siberian coal mine, bringing the death toll to 60.
A Transdnestrian journalist arrested by security forces in the unrecognized republic on charges of spying for Moldova has admitted his guilt.
A plane crashed on Wednesday in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, killing 105 people, the AFP news agency said, citing police sources.
Iran is set to launch two satellites under a deal with Russia, the Iranian media has reported.
Iraqi authorities have begun construction of a security fence around the capital Baghdad, the country`s Al-Iraqiya TV reported, citing a Baghdad security spokesman.
A court in India found on Sunday the only surviving terrorist from a 2008 attack on Mumbai guilty of murder and waging war against India, national media said.
Greece will receive the first loans from EU countries under a massive bailout package on May 19, a Council of the European Union source told RIA Novosti on Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered that economic sanctions against Syria be extended for another year, the White House said on its website on Tuesday.
Moldova`s economic crimes police have searched offices of businessman Oleg Voronin, the son of former Moldovan president Vladimir Voronin and one of the republic`s richest men, a police spokesman said on Monday.
The German government agreed on Monday to provide Greece with 22.4 billion euros ($29.6 billion) as part of a multibillion-euro aid package to be allocated to the financially-stricken Balkan state by the European Union, the German N-24 TV channel said.
The use of huge quantities of chemical dispersant to break up an oil spill from a BP drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico could seriously endanger local wildlife, WWF Russia`s Oil and Gas Environmental Policy Officer said.
A new international agreement to replace the Kyoto environmental protocol will not be signed in 2010, the Russian presidential advisor on climate change has said.
Russia`s quota in the World Bank remained at the level of 2.7%, Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin has said.
Global warming, which altered European winds, was partially to blame for flight disruptions in Europe caused by an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano, the New Scientist has said.
The Air China air carrier resumed flights to Moscow on Tuesday, the Russian embassy in Beijing said.
The World Expo 2010 fair in Shanghai has begun holding practice runs, local media said on Tuesday.