The UN General Assembly's human rights committee has passed a resolution condemning the Iranian government for the crackdown on protests following the June presidential election.

A man in Russia's southwest Urals has been arrested for trying to sell a hand grenade at a bus stop to buy alcohol, local police said.

At least 31 people have died and around 90 remain trapped following a major gas explosion in northwest China's Heilongjiang province, state media said.

A resident of the Russian republic of Bashkortostan in the southern Urals hit two girls with his car, killing one of them, investigators said Saturday.

Fifteen people died and over 100 are trapped after an explosion early on Saturday at a mine in northeastern China.

Metallurgy, chemistry, wood industry and science intensive production are the spheres where Russian-U.S. economic cooperation can be the most effective.

Political directors, or deputy foreign ministers, from Russia, the U.S., the U.K., China, Germany and France held talks in Brussels Friday urging Iran to agree to a UN-proposed scheme.

The death toll in a fire in a southeast Moscow apartment block, most likely caused by a gas cylinder leak, has risen to three.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is starting his official visit to the United States on Saturday.

Two people died in fire after a household gas explosion in the southeast of the Russian capital

Eight people have been injured in a household gas explosion in a residential building in Moscow's southeast.

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Bulgaria has seized a Ukrainian cargo vessel because of nonpayment for repairs, the Bulgarian Focus news agency reported on Friday.

The first circulating beam of protons successfully made it through the entirety of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on Friday, a source at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) told RIA Novosti by telephone.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed hope on Friday that the appointment of Herman Van Rompuy as European Council President could boost Russia-EU ties.

South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity said the former Georgian republic "anticipates" its recognition by Belarus, but "does not insist" on an immediate decision.

The first circulating beam of protons has made it halfway through the circular device of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a scientist participating in the experiment said on Friday.

Russian and Iranian officials confirmed on Friday that work to launch Iran's first nuclear power plant is going as scheduled, Russia's state nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly said.

CIS countries could drop the U.S. dollar in financial settlements and start using their national currencies within the next few years, the Russian finance minister said on Friday.

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