Moldova has rejected a new ambassador proposed by Romania, an official said Friday, in another sign of deteriorating relations between the neighboring countries.

A Moldovan government department says an explosion has ripped through a pipeline carrying Russian gas to the Balkans and reduced supplies to the region. A spokeswoman says no one was injured.

Moldovan poet Grigore Vieru, admired for his courage in promoting Romanian, the country’s native language, when Moldova was a Soviet republic has died. He was 73.

In a softly lit room, giggly teenagers rise from their desks and sing a hymn. Then the leader of the youth group starts a detailed reading of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s state of the nation address.

Russia and Ukraine should coordinate efforts in facing the global economic turmoil, given that enterprises in the two former Soviet republics were still economically linked, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday.

Russia’s ambassador to Moldova has warned the country’s leaders to avoid a “bloody and catastrophic trend of events” in a separatist Moldovan region.

A Sudanese-owned transport plane laden with fuel crashed shortly after takeoff from an airport near the Moldovan capital and burst into flames, killing all eight people on board, authorities said Saturday.No casualties were reported on the ground.The...

Armenia’s main opposition candidate alleged widespread violations in a presidential election Tuesday shadowed by tension with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.The two top contenders among nine candidates were powerful Prime...

Like CSI detectives, scientists around the world are combining their skills in a new field of “nuclear forensics” to combat the threat of atomic terrorism.”Nuclear terrorism is a global threat, not local or regional,” said Anita Nilsson, director of...

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery that must not be tolerated, a senior U.N. official and celebrities said Wednesday.Pop star Ricky Martin, Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson and Egyptian first lady Suzanne Mubarak were among dignitaries who..