PARIS, April 2 (Itar-Tass) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy has
held a telephone conversation with the president-elect of Cote d'Ivoire,

PYONGYANG, April 1 (Itar-Tass) - Koreans living in Japan "liquidate
the aftermath of a powerful earthquake and tsunami shoulder to shoulder

VLADIVOSTOK, April 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's large oil port of Kozmino
near Nakhodka in the Far East shipped most of its oil to Japan.

MOSCOW, April 1 (Itar-Tass) -- President Dmitry Medvedev will chair a
meeting of the Security Council on Friday to discuss the state policy in
the aviation sphere.

MOSCOW, April 1 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Svyazinvest telecom holding
will complete the reorganization of its subsidiary Rostelecom on Friday

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Itar-Tass) -- The United States expressed concern
over reported detentions of numerous Russian citizens who participated on

RABAT, April 1 (Itar-Tass) -- Intensive fighting with the use of heavy
guns raged in central Abidjan on Thursday, Reuters reported quoting local

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Itar-Tass) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said
on Thursday he was categorically against a major Afghan or Iraq-like U.S.

LONDON, April 1 (Itar-Tass) -- British Foreign Secretary William Hague
called on Syrian government on Thursday to respect the right to peaceful

VLADIVOSTOK, April 1 (Itar-Tass) -- Radioactive iodine-131
concentrations which were detected in the atmospheric air over the Russian