Recasts lead, adds Georgian confirmation in para 4) TBILISI, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Four Georgian officers detained in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone were released on Tuesday amid preparations by Tbilisi for a police operation to free them, Georgia
TOYAKO (Hokkaido), July 8 (RIA Novosti) - The G8 leaders welcomed Tuesday North Korea's move in late June to submit information on its nuclear program and called on the country to give up its nuclear ambitions. "Noting the progress made
HOKKAIDO (Japan), July 8 (RIA Novosti) - G8 leaders adopted a statement on Tuesday setting a goal of halving carbon emissions by mid-century, but developing nations and top environmentalists dismissed the agreement as meaningless. Leaders of the Group of Eight
MOSCOW, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Authorities in South Ossetia, a breakaway Georgian region, said in a letter to the OSCE made public on Tuesday that the international community must not stand by and allow the regional conflict to escalate.
RUSSIA * Russia's Foreign Ministry said that Moscow would be forced to respond to U.S. plans to place a missile defense radar in the Czech Republic, after the two sides signed an agreement earlier in the day * Russia submitted
MOSCOW, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Proton collisions at the world's most powerful particle accelerator that some theorists say could create matter-consuming black holes should not be expected until the fall, a Russian physicist said Tuesday. "We are not planning
MOSCOW, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia said on Tuesday that Tbilisi has evacuated around 300 children from ethnic-Georgian areas of the province, and accused the country of preparing an invasion. Tensions have been escalating
KIEV, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Somali pirates, who seized a German cargo vessel in May, have released the crew after a ransom was paid, a Ukrainian newspaper reported on Tuesday. The Lehmann Timber was seized in the Gulf of
TEHRAN, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that the U.S. was currently incapable of launching an attack on the Islamic Republic, Iranian national media reported. He made the remark in Kuala Lumpur, the capital
MINSK, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed orders on Tuesday dismissing two high-ranking officials from over the Independence Day blast that left injured 50 people in central Minsk. The explosion, which police have attributed to "hooliganism,"
TOKYO, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Talks with North Korea on its nuclear program are set to restart on July 10 in Beijing, Seoul's chief nuclear negotiator said on Tuesday. "The top envoys' meeting will begin in the afternoon of
