President Barack Obama said Thursday he will help Russia accelerate its bid to join the World Trade Organization, and told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he hopes Russia can clear final hurdles to accession as early as September 30.

• June 25, 2010

Pakistan Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervez Ashraf, will visit Iran in August to sign an agreement for importing 1,000MW of electricity, officials have said.

• June 25, 2010

A meeting today of prominent CEOs from the United States and Russia with Presidents Medvedev and Obama marked a major step forward in U.S.-Russia business relations. The meeting was held today as part of the economic summit between the U.S. and Russia.

• June 25, 2010

Russia resumed gas supplies to Belarus on Thursday after paying gas transit debts to Minsk in an effort to ease fears of supply cuts to the European Union, which said it believed the dispute was over.

• June 25, 2010

Thousands of ethnic Uzbek refugees from recent clashes in south Kyrgyzstan are returning from Uzbekistan, officials say.

• June 25, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev came here to learn about Silicon Valley and notched at least one deal in the process.

• June 24, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in the United States for a visit aimed primarily at wooing U.S. investors he hopes will help launch Russia's technology sector into the 21st century.

• June 24, 2010

The official focus of Dmitry Medvedev's trip to the US is to improve Moscow's business ties to Washington. But on Thursday the Russian president and Barack Obama will have to tackle some hot political issues as well.

• June 24, 2010