Israeli aircraft struck at least six targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, just a few hours after a rocket fired from the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave killed a Thai farm worker in southern Israel. Two people were injured in the attack, Reuters reports quoting local Hamas representatives and eyewitnesses. The targets hit by Israeli... →
The first unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, which is being constructed by Russian experts, might be put into operation this summer, Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on the development of nuclear sphere in Volgodonsk.Russian experts are continuing the construction began already in the 1970s by a... →
The US and Russian delegations are at the last stage of working out the new START Treaty, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after negotiations with the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Lavrov said the parties are satisfied with the work done and noted that the presidents personally control the process. Russia and the US have... →
Russia’s Irek Zaripov won the gold medal in 10-kilometer sitting ski race at the Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver on Thursday. This is Zaripov`s fourth medal at the current competitions. Kirill Mikhailov came second. The female skiers, Mikhalina Lysova and Tatiana Ilyushenko, won silver and bronze in 5-kilometer race for athletes with... →
The four international mediators in a Middle East settlement are meeting in Moscow today to try to unblock the Palestinian-Israeli crisis and set in motion the negotiating process. The meeting is attended by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the topmost diplomats of Russia, the United States and the European Union, and also by the... →
Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev has ordered to check the legality of an investigation carried out by the Main interior department of Moscow against Agava Company – the designer and administrator of iFOLDER file-sharing service, the ministry's press service said on Thursday adding that Nurgaliyev was acting on instructions from... →
A notorious militant leader of Arab nationality, Abu Haled, has been killed in Chechnya, the republic’s President Ramzan Kadyrov said on Thursday. He added that Haled, who had come to Chechnya 13 years ago, provided security to the terrorist leader Doku Umarov and dealt with technical and psychological training of future terrorists. Mr... →
Russia’s Rubin FC blew its chances of making it into the quarterfinals of the UEFA Europa League finals losing to Germany’s Wolfsburg 1:2 in overtime on Thursday. Rubin’s Alan Kasayev scored in the 21st minute, but the Wolves equalized in the 58th and Christian Gentner then scored a winner in the 119 minute securing his team a... →
The world’s largest World War II archive is currently being created in Russia. Scheduled to open by the 70th anniversary of Victory in 2015, it will have 13 million files, trophy archives, including from Hitler’s chancellery, and a database for servicemen and civilians killed, embracing all countries that were engaged in the war... →
Nigeria has recalled its ambassador to Libya after that nation's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, caused an uproar suggesting that Nigeria be split into two countries, one Muslim and one Christian. The Libyan leader floated the controversial idea in bid to end sectarian violence in the oil-rich West African nation whose 140 million... →
Ukraine’s president Victor Yanukovich will sign a decree on holding military parades in Sevastopol and Kerch in the run-up to the 65th anniversary of VE-Day. Yanukovich said it would be right to arrange the Sevastopol parade together with Russia and ordered Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mikhail Ezhel to prepare for the event. The... →
An An-26 cargo plane has made an emergency landing on a frozen lake in Estonia. The Tallinn-bound flight from Finland with 6 people on board landed on Lake Julemiste not far from the city after technical failures prevented it from landing at Tallinn airport. The plane sustained minor damage. One passenger is in hospital. →
A joint operation involving several thousand troops was launched in the Afghan province of Kandahar on Thursday night, military officials told the RIA-Novosti news agency. This is the second operation against the Taliban movement undertaken by NATO forces since the beginning of 2010. The first operation under the code name Mushtarak... →
Heads of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church, Patriarch Kirill and Catholicos Garegin II, have participated in laying the foundation of a new Russian Orthodox cathedral in Yerevan. The construction of the Church of the Exaltation of the Honorable and Life-Giving Cross at the man-made Yerevan Lake is to be completed within... →
