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Initial reports said about 10 people were injured in the quake, one seriously, and that most of them were tourists, Xinhua says. Some houses had also collapsed in a village close to the epicenter, which was in a mountainous area along the border of the region's Hejing and Xinyuan counties.
The earthquake was felt strongly by residents living in Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, who reported that cable TV signals were impaired and roads clogged by landslides.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron is to chair an emergency response committee meeting, after a knife attack in London left one person dead.
US President Barack Obama yesterday joined National Security Advisor Tom Donilon’s meeting with Russia’s SecurityCouncil Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, NSC spokesperson Caitlin Hayden has said, adding the American leader had reaffirmed his intent to strengthen US-Russia partnership in various spheres, including economy.
A state of emergency has been declared in the western Russian region of Tula after a microburst, which is a localized column of sinking air, hit the town of Yefremov, severely damaging homes and community facilities.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has cheered on the Moscow-based Conference for European Security as an opportunity to boost mutual trust and understanding in the Euro-Atlantic space, despite the existing controversies, VoR Grigory MIlenin says.
On Thursday, the U.S. President, Barack Obama, is to deliver a speech at the National Defense University on a broad range of counterterrorism issues, it is seen as an attempt to demonstrate that the president is fully determined to fulfil the pledges he made in his State of the Union address earlier this year. At the same time, Obama's critics point to the fact that his counterterrorism speech will be delivered at a time when he faces snowballing criticism on domestic issues, with the word "impeachment" being uttered more and more often. In this context, the choice of topic is a curious one as the administration's counterterrorism policy has been questioned so many times both at home and abroad.
The West has preserved its one-sided view of the missile shield issue, head of Russian president’s administration Sergei Ivanov said today. The former defense minister has stressed Moscow is not going to tolerate this stance, VoR correspondent Grigiry Milenin reports.
US President Obama plans to open a new phase in the nation’s long struggle with terrorism on Thursday by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of them away from the C.I.A. to the military.
The Prime Minister is to chair the Government's emergency response committee, Cobra, meeting attended by politicians, the UK's most senior police officer and the new head of MI5. The agenda of the meeting is security measures after a man was killed on the streets of London.
The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has developed a technology that will counterbalance NATO’s global anti-missile shield, VoR Grigory Milenin has cited the Russian Chief of Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, as saying today at the opening of the International Conference on European Security.
A state of emergency has been declared in the western Russian region of Tula after a microburst, which is a localized column of sinking air, hit the town of Yefremov, severely damaging homes and community facilities.
President Vladimir Putin believes Russia’s spectrum of ethnic groups, cultures and faiths is a great boon for the country’s development.
Anti-immigration sentiment is nothing new in the West, and now it is also on the rise in Russia, as the country has to make up for its demographic shortfalls by importing guest labour from former Soviet Central Asia. Polls suggest anti-immigrant rallies and even riots may be around the corner. In the meantime, a report issued by the agency Interfax raises the specter of an even more sinister threat.
Ford Motor Co (F.N) announced it is closing its two Australian auto plants and will cease production in the country in October 2016.
The Ukrainian government on Wednesday approved a memorandum applying for observer status in the Customs Union, a Moscow-based trade bloc comprising Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said.
This year is likely to bring a draft agreement, first proposed in 2008, for the EU countries to share information about interest accrued on deposits held in banks.
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.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
Scout leader and mom of two Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, put her life in danger after stepping forward to an extremist who had just killed a person with his knife. Pedestrians on the streets of London captured the moment on camera of her speaking against his violent actions. The Woolwich terrorist told her that he and his group wanted to start a war in London that night.
Fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli killed at least six people overnight, as supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad clashed, a security source said on Thursday.
Frogs and other forms of amphibians are vanishing at a rapid rate, says a new scientific study which was conducted all across America. After nine years of observations in various ponds, researchers found that the population of each kind decreased at about 3.7 percent a year.
Woolwich attackers are ‘Al Qaeda followers’ – British politician
