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Six criminals attempted to hijack a plane in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Friday.
Members of the crew, acting together with police officers who happened to be on board, assisted by 10 brave passengers, succeeded in overpowering the terrorists as they tried to detonate the explosives they had managed to carry with them on board.
The plane’s crew were also rewarded for bravery.
TASS
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.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Friday to take “hard decisions” to revive the Middle East peace process.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are expected to hold bilateral talks in Paris on May 27.
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.
Security threats are equal for all states and the only way to counter them is through international cooperation, NATO officials say. NATO Assistant Secretary General Dirk Brengelmann, who attended the Moscow conference on European Security held on Thursday and Friday, sounded optimistic about prospects for a closer rapprochement between the alliance and Russia. But how serious are such statements? Most analysts point out that cooperation with NATO has been a negative rather than a positive experience for Moscow.
A group of armed men started firing on a security department Friday in Kabul, police said.
Russia has moved to sponsor Serbia’s leg of its South Stream project, a natural gas pipeline that will transport Russian natural gas through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and further to Greece, Italy and Austria.
The Russian government is working on a draft law to guarantee immunity to state property. Such legislation is designed to regulate claims on foreign property. A statement to this effect was made by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
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.
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.
The Afrikaans MC Jaak uses hip-hopto raise consciousness of the "brown" underclass of his home city Paarl, South Africa.
Security services may have had little chance to intervene before two men slaughtered the 25-year-old on the streets of London believes ex-head of counter-terrorism at the spy agency MI6.
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.
Pakistani plane lands in Britain after jet escort: police
