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Romanian President Traian Basescu on Friday evening named Victor Ponta, leader of the opposition Social Democratic Party, as the country's new prime minister.
An extensive investigation is underway into what Ukrainian prosecutors believe is a terrorist attack, after four bomb blasts rocked Dnepropetrovsk city in eastern Ukraine Friday afternoon.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Friday China and Poland had agreed to respect and treat each other on an equal footing and supported each other's choice of development path.
Russia is to send its cosmonauts to the moon no later than 2030 and secure its independence in space exploration, Russian federal space agency said.
Alba Group, the world's largest exporter of scrap metals to China, may offer "comprehensive solutions" to China to help the country's recycling industry get greener.
Putin takes aim with a model assault rifle at an electronic shooting range during his visit to a research facility.
Belarus, Ukraine and Russia marked the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst civil nuclear accident.
The Legislative Assembly of the Federal District, meeting in plenary on Thursday, evaluates an legal reform to ban bullfighting.
The euro shed half a cent to around $1.3180 early on Friday after S&P's cut Spain's ratings by two notches to BBB-plus due to its deteriorating public finances.
Two high-speed trains collided in Italy's capital Rome on Thursday, injuring four people.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met early Thursday with counterparts from Latvia, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on the sidelines of a Chinese and central and eastern Europe leaders' meeting.
Around 40,000 people gathered in Oslo on Thursday to sing a popular children's song ridiculed by Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people last July.