Thai police prolong arrest of detained plane crew.
BANGKOK, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Thai police have prolonged the
arrest of the detained Il-76 crew for 12 days more, a police source said.
Pope knocked down at Christmas Mass.
VATICAN CITY, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Pope Benedict XVI was knocked
down as he was going to begin Christmas eve Mass on Thursday by a woman
Medvedev to order state corporations to modernize.
MOSCOW, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- President Dmitry Medvedev who set
Russian economic modernization as a priority will chair a meeting on
Venezuela, Belarus expanding trade-economic cooperation.
. CARACAS, December 24 (Itar-Tass) - Trade-economic relations of
Venezuela with Belarus have "acquired strategic importance in various
