Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are due to hold talks in a bid to boost bilateral economic ties during the French leader`s two-day visit to Moscow, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
The chief economist of international ratings agency Standard and Poor`s expects unemployment in the U.S. to rise further and said the world`s largest economy was only halfway through the present housing crisis.
Two car bombs killed 14 people and wounded 30 in the northern Iraqi town of Baiji on Tuesday, police said, marking an increase in attacks as the holy Muslim month of Ramadan draws to an end.
A court in Tbilisi released Georgian ex-defense minister Irakly Okruashvili on bail set at 10 million lari (over $6 million), the deputy prosecutor general told the press on Monday.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is planned to meet leaders of political forces that managed to overcome the three-percent barrier to the parliament at the presidential secretariat, the press office of the Ukrainian president claimed.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was set to make his first visit to Moscow, October 9-10, amid continuing political tension and disagreement between Russia and France.
The first anniversary of the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has also been marked with vigils in other European centres.
A sheriff`s deputy shot and killed six young people in the northern Wisconsin town of Crandon before being killed himself after a manhunt, according to media reports on Sunday, quoting police and witnesses.
The Ukrainian Central Elections Commission has processed all the protocols in the September 30 parliament elections.
A rare original painting by Japanese woodblock print artist Utamaro Kitagawa has been found at the house of an elderly woman, whose husband bought it for less than 30 dollars decades ago.
The United States wants to address Russian security concerns about its plans to deploy a missile defense system in eastern Europe in high-level Kremlin talks next week, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.
Lawmakers were voting Saturday in a presidential election that Pakistan`s military ruler is expected to sweep, although he could yet face disqualification by the Supreme Court.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to the Middle East via Russia next week as part of a shuttle diplomacy trip ahead of a US-sponsored peace summit, the State Department said Wednesday.
Russia on Wednesday allayed European fears of a potential gas supply crisis due to a payment row with Ukraine after the government in Kiev sent a minister to Moscow and pledged to settle the dispute.
The North and South Korean leaders on Thursday declared their commitment to a nuclear-free peninsula, pledging to work for permanent peace to end the world`s last Cold War divide.
Moldovan Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan said Russian peacekeepers in the country`s breakaway region of Transdnestr should be replaced with a "multinational civil mission with an international mandate."
Ukraine`s elections hung on a knife-edge Tuesday as preliminary results threatened a dead heat and pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko ordered a probe into possible ballot fraud.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il greeted South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun in Pyongyang on Tuesday to begin the second summit between the two countries since the peninsula`s division after World War II.
A suicide bomber killed 12 Afghan police on a bus in Kabul on Tuesday, a police official said, the second such attack in the capital in four days.
Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia arrived in Strasbourg on Monday to take the floor at the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will make his first official visit to Russia on October 9 and 10, at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said Friday.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili denied Saturday accusations of corruption and pledged not to interfere with the trial of former Georgian defense minister, Irakly Okruashvili, who had criticized him.
Bilateral relations alongside international matters were discussed by the Russian President and Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Zapatero, during the latter’s visit to Sochi.
China and Russia agreed here on Friday to improve the trade structure, expand investment and technological cooperation in line with the principle of reciprocity.
Bristol-Myers Squibb will pay 515 million dollars to settle a probe into illegal kickbacks to doctors and fraudulent pricing of its drugs to government health programs, officials said Friday.