MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - The official death toll following Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis, which hit the Southeast Asian country two weeks ago, has risen to 77,738, and 56,000 are missing, national television reported on Friday. The cyclone, which has

TALLINN, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - A brown bear was caught by an Estonian environmental inspector in the Narva River swimming toward the Russian border, the Eesti Paevaleht daily reported on Friday. The bear had swum almost 100 meters until

MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia will continue to block Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization until Moscow withdraws its support for the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, the country's reintegration minister said on Friday. Tensions between Moscow

MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has urged countries set to take part in a Mideast peace conference in Moscow to agree on a timetable for the meeting as soon as possible. Russia, a member

KABUL, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - Pakistan's envoy to Afghanistan, kidnapped more than three months ago by militants believed to belong to the radical Islamic Taliban movement, has been freed, a Pakistani embassy official said on Saturday. "I can't give

S. sanctions could face a number of problems but will not be seriously affected, the country's first deputy prime minister said * The Georgian Interior Ministry has dismissed as a 'provocation' Russian reports that a Georgian intelligence service agent had