Russian-U.S. talks on safety standards for American poultry imports may last until the end of the year, the president of Russia"s Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs said on Tuesday.
A total of 110 reporters were killed in the course of their work in 2009 making the year the most lethal for journalists in the past decade, the International Press Institute said on Thursday.
At least eight people were shot dead by a gunman in the U.S. state of Virginia near the city of Lynchburg, the Washington Post reported, citing state police.