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Russian and Belarusian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko reiterate the strategic nature of relations between their two neighboring countries.
In a joint statement in Minsk on Thursday the two leaders underscored their shared wish to continue building up their Union State and promote across-the-board cooperation between Moscow and Minsk.
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London's Heathrow Airport is "fully operational" and returning to normal after an emergency landing Friday forced the closure of both runways, the airport said.
Friday's earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk did not effect radiation levels in the Far East and other Russian regions, a spokesman for the state atomic energy corporation Rosatom said during a conference call at the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's National Crisis Management Center.
Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov has lashed out at anti-Assad sanctions slapped on the Syrian regime by Washington. He stressed that unilateral sanctions banning oil and arms imports to Syria violated international rules and were profoundly illegal.
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić has thanked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for his country’s staunch support of international norms when handling the situation around Kosovo.
Russia's fundamental stance on the Syrian issue is unchangeable, Russian President Vladimir Putin's aide Yury Ushakov said.
Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov has lashed out at anti-Assad sanctions slapped on the Syrian regime by Washington. He stressed that unilateral sanctions banning oil and arms imports to Syria violated international rules and were profoundly illegal.
A charity bidder at Cannes has won a journey into space sat next to Leonardo DiCaprio, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The lot, which went for €1.2m (£1m) at the annual AmFAR Cinema Against Aids gala at the Hotel du Cap, was listed in as a "once-in-a-lifetime trip to space with a mystery guest" on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic fleet of ships. A second pair of seats sold for €1.8m (£1.5m) for the same flight, totalling €3m (£2.6m) of the total €20m (£17m) raised, a 50% increase year-on-year.
A large explosion hit the centre of Kabul on Friday, reportedly targeting a security department.
The FBI Director Robert Mueller thanked Russia during his meeting with the Russian Interior Minister, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, in Washington for the aid that Russia has provided following the Boston bombing, and voiced hope for further cooperation on the basis that was laid during the investigation of the terrorist attack.
Eighty-five years ago, on May 24, 1928, the Italia airship with a 16-member North Pole expedition led by Umberto Nobile reached the North Pole. On its way back, the airship was caught in a storm and crashed some 100 km off Spitsbergen. That happened on May 25. Six countries then teamed up for what was the world’s first international air and sea rescue
effort. It involved 18 ships and 21 planes with the Soviet icebreaker Krasin having a key part to play in the rescue.
A renowned Russian film director Pyotr Todorovsky has died in Moscow aged 87. “Those who work in the field of art must put focus on human beings, on their sufferings, joys, dreams, and fantasies because this is the most interesting thing”, Pyotr Todorovsky used to say. Although Todorovsky had a long and hard life, he was full of optimism, had a high level of openness, and also a great sense of humour.
Renowned Polish traveler and explorer Jacek Palkiewicz is mounting an expedition to retrace the route of the Polish explorers of Siberia, ITAR-TASS reports.
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.
Two members of FBI’s elite unit specializing in counterterrorism operations who were involved in the arrest of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev died during a training execrise 12 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach.
Thousands of members of a Muslim community will condemn the barbaric murder of Drummer Lee Rigby when they congregate today for Friday Prayers.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem led a solemn service at the Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin on Friday in commemoration of the 1150th anniversary of Slav culture and alphabet.
Large explosion heard in central Kabul
