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Croatian prosecutors have charged former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader with stealing 3.5mln euros by acquiring a state-owned building in central Zagreb at a knockdown price.
Sanader denies the charge. One of his co-defendants, however, former Farming Minister Petar Cobankovic, has made a plea bargain with the prosecution and admitted his guilt in the case.
Earlier charges laid against Mr Sanader included illegal profiteering and taking a 10mln-euro bribe.
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Ministry of Defence says the soldier killed on Wednesday was Drummer Lee Rigby, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (attached to the Regimental Recruiting Team in London).
There are questions being raised worldwide over the shooting death of an alleged acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev by an FBI agent in Orlando, Florida in the early hours of Wednesday morning shortly after midnight.
In today’s speech Mayor of London Boris Johnson claimed it was completely wrong to blame Woolwich killings on British society. However, with UK’s foreign policy abroad and growing Islamophobic sentiments within the country, it might well be that Britain has a fair share of guilt in the tragedy.
Medea Benjamin, the co-founder and manager of CodePink, told the Voice of Russia she was going to mobilize opposition and get out on the streets during Obama's counterterrorism speech which is scheduled to be delivered at the National Defense University Thursday.
In today’s speech Mayor of London Boris Johnson claimed it was completely wrong to blame Woolwich killings on British society. However, with UK’s foreign policy abroad and growing Islamophobic sentiments within the country, it might well be that Britain has a fair share of guilt in the tragedy.
Any attempts to introduce Western standards of state form of the government in the Middle East and North Africa cause further tension in those regions, Igor Sergun, director of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Gen. Staff of the Russian armed forces said Thursday. He was speaking at an international conference on European Security in Moscow.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has called an emergency committee to discuss the murder of a soldier in southeast London with the security chiefs. The soldier (Drummer Lee Rigby) was killed on Wednesday at around 2 p.m. outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich.
There are questions being raised worldwide over the shooting death of an alleged acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev by an FBI agent in Orlando, Florida in the early hours of Wednesday morning shortly after midnight.
President Barack Obama said on Thursday he condemned "in the strongest terms" the attack in London on a British service member.
President Vladimir Putin has instructed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to present a working plan of ruling bodies aimed at fulfilling the tasks formulated in his “May decrees.”
Latvia’s parliament has not approved a far-right initiative to ban Russian language in state-funded kindergartens for national minorities and force Russian-speaking children to learn Lithuanian only.
Moscow and its diplomats in Lithuania are keeping track of the situation with a Russian citizen recently detained in Vilnius. The local security services have arrested Dmitry Ustinov at the request of the US Justice Department, which suspects him of smuggling export-restricted military equipment and money laundering. Ustinov can face up to 20 years in jail if found guilty.
It may happen that a new strike on bank secrecy will be delivered later this year. On the results of the latest summit of the European Union, the leaders of the EU member-states have agreed to complete the relevant resolution of the European Commission before the end of this year.
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.
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)
One of the most disturbing developments in the modern world is the now ritualized reaction of the Western leaders to new acts of Islamist terror. One could call this reaction “predictably actionless.” Right after a new mass murder the leader of the aggrieved country has a quick “war meeting” with the top brass of police, special services and sometimes even the army. Right after the meeting it is announced that all appropriate measures have been taken and that terrorists were just isolated individuals, whose ethnicity and religion are not relevant to the affair. In a few hours, citizens are advised by their leader to go about their business as if nothing has happened. All of these phrases are of course uttered in a solemn tone, with appropriate praise for the citizens’ calm and restraint.
The film “The Major” made by the Russian film director Yuri Bykov has proved to be one of the unexpected and thus, very pleasant surprises of the 66th Cannes International Film Festival. Shown during the “Critics’ Week” in Cannes, this film was warmly received by both the critics and the public.
Far-right English Defense League (EDL) has manifested its presence online through various, often covert, means to harness anger among the British people. This time, ELD leadership used Woolwich massacre to attract Facebook users to their internet page.
Two further people arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to Woodwich murder
