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US President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in Oklahoma after deadly tornadoes struck the state on Sunday and Monday and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts, the White House said on Monday.
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Russia’s counter-terrorist agents hope to interrogate the surviving terror suspect who was arrested during a Monday raid on a group plotting a terrorist attack in Moscow.
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Russia’s police department chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev has praised the recent law enforcement reform in the country, saying it boosted security to the levels that are in some aspects incomparable with New York.
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North Korea has given the United States aspiration for world domination and will continue the policy of strengthening its nuclear deterrence forces and will not stop launching satellites, North Korean Ambassador to Russia Kim Yong Jae told Interfax in an interview.
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Advocacy groups, journalists, and watchdog organizations caught wind of the in-depth look the Justice Department took on one Fox News reporter. Associations who keep an eye on protecting the First Amendment were flabbergasted to find out how far the government had actually looked into James Rosen’s records.
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The US and Chinese presidents will hold their first summit in California in June, both sides have announced.
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Four bombings in northern Iraq killed five people and wounded 69 on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has killed more than 370 people so far this month.
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Gary Pruitt, president and chief executive of The Associated Press, has called the US government’s actions “unconstitutional” after being informed that the Justice Department had secretly seized two months of AP’s phone records.
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Bolivia’s President Evo Morales will be able to run for a third term in the presidential elections scheduled for 2014. A ruling to this effect was passed by the country’s Constitutional Court a short time ago.
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Russia’s counter-terrorist agents hope to interrogate the surviving terror suspect who was arrested during a Monday raid on a group plotting a terrorist attack in Moscow.
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Russia is on the threshold of another spiral of terrorist activity, said the President of the Russian Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Drug Foundation, Alexander Mikhailov, in an interview with the Voice of Russia.
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Russia’s police department chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev has praised the recent law enforcement reform in the country, saying it boosted security to the levels that are in some aspects incomparable with New York.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is certain that Russia will avoid an economic crisis like the one in 2008, he told the Moscow-based daily Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
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Authorities & business community should work more closely to improve Russia's labour market – expert
At a time of slowing economic growth, labour market issues are becoming more apparent. Currently, experts in Russia talk of a lack of qualified specialists, a deteriorating demographic situation and complicated legislative framework as being among the key concerns to be addressed by politicians and the business community.
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On Monday morning with index gains helped by a 4.4% climb for China Coal Energy, Hong Kong shares were set to start at their highest point in over a week.
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A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
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In a harsh rebuttal to George Soros, the President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research Hans-Werner Sinn accused the speculator of “playing with fire” and stated that “Germany will not accept Eurobonds” in spite of the pressure from the investing community.
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In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Wolf Richter talks about the ECB's desperation, the money printing bonanza of the world's central banks and about a French finance minister who is barking at the wrong tree. Wolf Richter is the editor of , entrepreneur, private equity specialist and the author of "Big Like: Cascade Into An Odyssey".
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Lawmakers in Texas are expected to vote Monday on a bill that, if passed, would compel Internet Service Providers (ISPs) anywhere in the world to fork over private Web records if that information could aid in a criminal investigation.
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According to Cancer Council Queensland, residents on the Sunshine Coast are participating in a vast amount of unhealthy habits, at an alarming rate. Their report reveals that more residents are caring less about their skin, eating, and drinking habits.
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Vasily Bogoyavlensky, an academician at the Russian Academy of Sciences, has talked to the Voice of Russia about the following topics: the percentage of untapped hydrocarbon resources on the outer continental shelf, how much higher the cost is of extracting natural resources on the outer continental shelf compared to extracting from the continent itself and why the extraction of shale gas could be more damaging to the environment than the extraction of natural gas?
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