Non-crew members were in the cockpit of the plane of Polish president Lech Kaczynski before its fatal crash, officials said on Wednesday.
Hopes were fading on Monday of finding alive any of the 58 miners still trapped deep inside Russia’s largest underground coal mine.
Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on packed metro trains in Moscow’s morning rush hour on Monday, killing at least 38 people.
Divers on Tuesday searched flooded wreckage for 64 people still missing after an accident at Russia’s biggest hydroelectric plant.
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the United States wanted a strong, prosperous but also democratic Russia.
Russia and Ukraine on Friday remained at odds in a gas crisis that has raised concerns over Europe’s dependence on Russian energy.
Iranian conservatives were on Saturday heading for a crushing victory in parliamentary elections over reformists who were sidelined by mass pre-vote disqualifications, partial results showed. Eighty-two seats in the 290 seat Parliament were at stake in the run-off voting on Saturday after the first round on March 14 left conservatives assured of taking a majority in the next Parliament.
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday reaffirmed his doubts about the accepted version of the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, describing the strikes as a ”suspect event”. ”Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New York,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech to a public rally in the holy city of Qom.
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/ 4 February 2008
Iran on Monday fired a rocket into space to mark the opening of its first space centre, triggering swift condemnation from the United States amid continued tensions over the Iranian nuclear drive. The space centre, located in the remote desert of western Iran, will be used to launch Iran’s first home-produced satellite in May or June this year, officials said.
Two men convicted of murdering a top Iranian judge in 2005 were hanged in public in central Tehran on Thursday, the first such public executions in the Iranian capital in five years. The men were executed for the murder of Hassan Moghaddas, a hardline deputy prosecutor and head of the ”guidance” court in Tehran