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The Health of the Emperor Akihito, who in February underwent heart surgery, continues to improve according to local media reports.
Doctors in the Imperial Hospital on Monday conducted a medical examination of Akihito and allowed him to resume the execution of all imperial duties on Tuesday.
At the time of his father's illness most responsibilities were assumed by Crown Prince Naruhito.
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The Saturday bomb attack in Makhachkala could have been committed by Madina Aliyeva (Salakhanova), a city resident, who had been considered missing since May 13, a Dagestani law enforcement source told Interfax.
Russian MP Semyon Bagdasarov on Interpol’s resufal to assit Russia in tracking William Browder in exclusive interview to the Voice of Russia.
UK security service MI5 tried to recruit London attack suspect Michael Adebolajo about six months ago, the suspect’s friend has said. (VIDEO)
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych could come to Astana at the time when the leaders of the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union member-states gather there for a summit at the end of May, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov said.
Russian MP Semyon Bagdasarov on Interpol’s resufal to assit Russia in tracking William Browder in exclusive interview to the Voice of Russia.
The United States is contented with the outcomes of Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev's visit to Washington and expects to have positive discussions on missile defense with Russia.
The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Created 20 years ago, the tribunal was designed to try individuals responsible for severe violations of the international humanitarian law on the territory of former Yugoslavia. International law expert Alexander Mezyaev sums up the results of the tribunal’s work in an interview with a Voice of Russia correspondent.
At least 33 people, 29 of them Taliban militants, were killed and 18 others, including a NATO soldier, injured in two newly reported incidents in south-eastern Afghanistan in the last day, officials said Saturday.
The attackers who staged twin bombings at an army base and French-run uranium mine in northern Niger came from neighbouring Libya, Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou said Saturday.
Russia’s Sedov sailing ship has dropped anchor off the last port in its round-the-world voyage - Senegal’s capital of Dakar where it will be docked up to May 26.
The passengers of a Boeing 777 en route from Moscow to New York, which earlier made an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport shortly after takeoff, have been provided with another aircraft and are heading for their destination now, the Emergency Situations Ministry's Central Regional Center told Interfax.
The Moscow – New-York passenger flight landed at the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow due to electronic failure. There was no fire aboard, a source at law-enforcement agencies told ITAR-TASS.
The European Union will emerge from the current crisis stronger than before if the EU governments pursue their previously set agendas and discard their self-serving interests.
After the end of World War II the US dollar replaced the British pound as the main reserve currency of the world. The currency reserves of the world’s central banks are mostly kept in dollars and most of the commodities essential to the functioning of the world economy are priced in dollars.
The Cyprus government "is determined to fight money laundering and terrorist financing and is constantly improving measures in this area", according to a statement made by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic.
On Thursday, the Japanese stock market experienced its biggest one-day plunge since 2011 caused by an earthquake coupled with a giant tsunami. This time, the cause of the crash had nothing to do with a natural disaster.
Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar.
David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.
An estimated crowd of 80,000 people turned up in Palermo on Saturday for the beatification of Father Pino Puglisi, an anti-mafia priest killed in the Sicilian city 20 years ago.
Albania introduced four-month visa-free travel for Russians today.
The Vice-Admiral Kulakov large anti-submarine ship of the Russian Northern Fleet has arrived in Liverpool on an unofficial visit.
Niger president says Islamist attackers came from Libya
