Russia has urged Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to co-operate, ahead of President Mahmoud Abbas's meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Russian prosecutors said Monday that they had asked a Moscow court to issue an arrest warrant for the businessman Boris Berezovsky in connection with a new criminal case against the outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin.
A member of a Russian opposition group led by former chess champion Garry Kasparov has been forcefully put in a psychiatric clinic in what activists said was revenge for critical reporting.
Hardline Uzbek authorities closed down a popular Islam-oriented weekly, its editor said Monday, amid an ongoing crackdown on independent media in the authoritarian ex-Soviet state.
A little known technocrat became a serious contender to succeed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday after newspapers said he had been made boss of a state shipbuilding conglomerate with a $12 billion order book.
The old adage states that it can be lonely at the top. For Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva it is also a little dull.
Two giant water bombing aircraft from Russia yesterday weighed into the fight against scores of fires raging across Greece as Athens' conservative government, fending off claims of ineptitude, apologised for its handling of the disaster.
Experts from the US and Russia were to meet yesterday to evaluate Moscow's proposal for a joint anti-missile base to counter a planned US missile shield based in Poland and the Czech Republic.