MOSCOW, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - An official ministerial meeting of the "sextet" on the North Korean nuclear issue will be held in Beijing, Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday after an unofficia

TOKYO, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - All nuclear power industry facilities in the north of the Japanese Honshu Island that was overnight hit by a powerful earthquake measuring 6.8 points are in a normal st

LISBON, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hasflatly denied reports that he suggested deploying a Russian military base in Veneuzela. during his recent visit to Moscow.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - An earthquake measuring 6.1 points on the Richter scale has occurred in the PacificOcean off Kamchatka's southern coast.

ANADYR, CHUKOTKA REGION, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - Roman Kopin will be sworn in as a new governor of the Chukotka autonomous district onThursday, the district Duma reports.

MOSCOW, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will on Thursday hold a conference in Nizhny Novgorod.

TOKYO, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - Japan insists that North Korea's authorities should reinvestigate the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea's special services in the 1970s and 1980s, Chief Cab

NAZRAN, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - A private house of the head of the local criminal investigations unit of the Malgobek interior department Isa Korigov came under attack in Ingushetia in the early hour

KIEV, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - NATO and the European Union have extended for two more years a lease contract for Ukrainian and Russian An-124-100 Ruslan aircraft under a joint SALIS program, Konstanti

TBILISI, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - Daniel Frid, the U.S.