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According to the Israeli General Staff, the exercise will help check if the army is capable of conducting a major military operation or even waging a war.
The Israeli military started fortifying border defences on the Golan Heights after an agreement with the UN monitors. The Israelis are mounting dozens of state-of-the-art surveillance devices and laying mines in the frontier zone. Israel occupied the Syrian Golan Heights in 1967.
TASS
US President Barack Obama has arrived in Berlin at the start of a visit during which he will address crowds at the city's famous Brandenburg Gate and hold talks with Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel.
The story line is beginning to sound familiar, too familiar. Young intelligent individual with high moral ideals attempts to expose the egregious clear and unarguable criminality of the U.S. Government, a government which is out of control and trampling on the rule of law and the rights of people worldwide, only to be villainized and forced to seek refuge and protection in a foreign country.
The second day of the Paris Air Show was marked by a demonstration flight of Russia’s Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet. Video by The Voice of Russia.
US President Barack Obama began the official engagements of his visit to Berlin Wednesday, arriving at the palace of German President Joachim Gauck to receive a ceremonial guard-of-honour welcome.
Bulgarians have been demonstrating in Sofia and other cities since Friday demanding the resignation of the new government of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski after it named a powerful media figure as head of national security (PHOTO, VIDEO).
Afghanistan on Wednesday suspended talks with the US on a deal that would allow US troops to remain in the country after 2014, officials said, in a clash over proposed talks with the Taliban.
The second day of the Paris Air Show was marked by a demonstration flight of Russia’s Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet. Video by The Voice of Russia.
A suicide attack on Wednesday rocked a local market in Yemen's Shiite city of Saada killing two civilians, said a Zaidi Ansarullah.
Eleven Russian seamen have been rescued from a massive container ship loaded with oil for Singapore, Sri Lanka authorities report.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has convened an emergency meeting on the military warehouse blast outside the city of Chapayevsk in the Samara region, Putin’s aide Dmitry Peskov has told reporters.
Montana authorities have vowed to look into Russia’s reports about several Russian orphans being locked up at a local respite care home for “troubled children” in Montana, US. Now the Montana Supreme Court is to probe the case starting June 26, US State Department of Labor and Industry spokeswoman Casey Kyler-West told reporters Wednesday.
The fire at the test site and ammo depot in Samara region has been contained and is on the wane, announced Deputy Chief of the Russian Emergencies Ministry department in Samara region Andrei Babintsev.
The World Bank on Wednesday warned that severe hardships from global warming could be felt within a generation, with a new study detailing devastating impacts in Africa and Asia.
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and the president of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Zhou Jiping, discussed yesterday evening matters involved in the concluding of a long-term contract for supplying China with Russian gas, a contract planned for signing before this year is out, Gazprom said.
At the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, the United States and the European Union have launched talks on Monday to what could become the biggest bilateral trade deal in history. British Prime Minister David Cameron said it was ‘a once-in-a-generation prize’, which they were determined to seize. US President Barack Obama announced that talks on a trans-Atlantic trade and investment deal would begin in Washington next month. While the EU leaders admit the negotiations will be difficult, they believe the agreement could be reached within two years. For more on the news we are joined by Patrick Young, Leading Expert on Financial Markets and the Founder and Chairman of Derivatives Vision, a securities exchange advisory and media company.
The Fitch rating agency is concerned about the unregulated part of the Chinese banking sector. The so-called “shadow banks” pose systemic risks for the country’s economy.
The Iranian economy is experiencing severe stress caused by the international sanctions against Tehran. An unofficial estimate of the Iranian inflation rate is almost three times the official annual inflation figure.
The foreign exchange market is now in the crosshairs of the global financial regulators in the aftermath of the rate-rigging scandals in currency rates and interest rates markets.
Gays and lesbians are facing harsh discrimination when renting apartments, according to a new, first-ever US Department of Housing and Urban Development report on LGBT renters. Their findings indicate that same-sex pairs receive unfair treatment when looking for online rental homes versus opposite-sex couples.
Brazil seems to be calming down following days of rallies that brought a record number of 100,000 protesters to downtown Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday.
On Tuesday the Republican-controlled House of Representatives endorsed a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill is unlikely to become a law, mass media note, due to resistance the bill is bound to meet in Democratic-controlled Senate and the White House. Democrats have often been referred to as pro-choice supporters, while Republicans are well-known pro-life advocates.
Obama begins official part of Berlin visit
