Baku▓s statements about renewal of military action in Nagorno Karabakh are nothing but a manifestation of pseudo-patriotism, Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Tigran Torosyan announced at a news conference today.
European Union leaders headed for a showdown on Thursday over efforts to overhaul the bloc`s creaking institutions, but chances of agreement appeared to be rising after chief critic Poland softened its tone.
A suicide truck bomber struck the city hall in a predominantly Sunni area in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 70, an Iraqi commander said.
A giant manta ray baby that was believed to be the first born in captivity died Thursday after being abused by its father, Japanese keepers said.
A five-acre glacial lake in Chile`s southern Andes has disappeared - and scientists want to know why.
Russian envoy at the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said Wednesday Moscow will not participate in discussions over the new draft resolution on Kosovo.
NATO`s secretary general could meet with the Russian president June 26 at the Russia-NATO Council ambassadorial session in Moscow, dedicated to the Council`s fifth anniversary, Russia`s ambassador to NATO said Tuesday.
The Russian Embassy in Israel said local authorities could open a border checkpoint with Gaza to allow Russian nationals to leave the area hit by recent violence between rival Palestinian factions.
On June 18, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. As a REGNUM correspondent was told at the Azerbaijani presidential press office, during the meeting the presidents expressed their satisfaction with the successful Azerbaijan-Georgian relations in economy, power engineering, and transportation.
Kyrgyz Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev returned from Turkey, where he was receiving medical treatment in a military hospital.
The United States will restore aid to the Palestinians in full and reestablish contacts with their new emergency government, the secretary of state said.
After a meeting of the Baltic countries and Visegrad countries held on June 17 in Luxemburg, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Petras Vaitiekunas expressed his hope that the European Union and Poland would finally find a compromise on the European Constitution.
Moscow welcomes an agreement between Sudan and the United Nations to allow a joint peacekeeping force of the UN and the African Union to be deployed in war-torn Darfur, the Foreign Ministry said Monday.
The foreign affairs committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and Russia`s State Duma will hold a joint session next week, after a two-year hiatus, the House press service said Saturday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will visit Russia on June 28-30, the Latin American country`s embassy in Moscow said Friday.
A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the capital Saturday, killing four civilians, Afghan officials said.
Russia`s first deputy prime minister Friday welcomed private and foreign capital, including that of resource-rich Central Asian states, to expand the only canal that unlocks the Caspian Sea.
Hamas fighters overran one of the rival Fatah movement`s most important security installations in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, and witnesses said the victors dragged vanquished gunmen into the street and shot them to death execution-style.
A train carrying military hardware left a Russian base in Georgia early Thursday as part of a 2006 deal on the withdrawal of Russian bases from the ex-Soviet Caucasus state, the Georgian Defense Ministry said.
Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), plans to visit Moscow next week, a presidential spokesman said Thursday.
Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko resigned Thursday as a member of her eponymous bloc in parliament.
A mother was being questioned on suspicion of murder last night after her two teenage daughters were found dead at their village home.
The transfer of North Korean funds that have been frozen in a Macau bank is to begin on Thursday, Japan`s Kyodo news agency said, possibly breaking a deadlock that has stalled a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
The presidents of China, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Transdnestr and Azerbaijan and the prime ministers of Ukraine and Armenia congratulated Russians Tuesday on the country`s state holiday.
Taiwan smartphone maker High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) (2498.TW) said on Tuesday it will launch one of its own-brand touch-screen phones in the United States by the end of the year, as it seeks to compete with Apple`s iPhone.