* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran was ready to conduct talks on its nuclear program without any preliminary conditions and on an equal basis
* Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tehran was ready to consider proposals worked out in Vienna by the six nations leading efforts to solve the standoff over Iran's nuclear programs
* Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili's proposal to hold a bilateral meeting during a telephone conversation Saturday, the Kremlin press service said
* The Emergency Situations Ministry said six people had been killed in a collision of a passenger train with a bus in the central Russian region of Voronezh
* A court ruled that Yevgeny Ishchenko, mayor of the Volga River city of Volgograd suspected of embezzlement, should remain in custody
* Commanders of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent in South Ossetia confirmed that 500 Russian peacekeepers had rotated out of the breakaway province Saturday morning
* Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said the ministry was set to sign an agreement on the construction of a car assembly plant in St. Petersburg with Japanese major carmaker Nissan June 13
