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Moscow is getting ready for the Festival of Light, which is scheduled for next week.
The authorities are putting up special light image projecting equipment on top of the buildings in downtown Moscow.
The most spectacular installations, including on historical subjects, will adorn buildings around Red Square.
Several hundred light shows will play alternately as part of the festival’s program.
Lyon is the host city of the world’s most breathtaking light shows.
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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.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been stranded at Ecuadorian embassy in London for almost 12 months, claims he received unclassified UK intelligence “chatter” that speculated he had been framed by Swedish authorities seeking his extradition on rape charges.
A judge has approved a defense request to get records on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev compiled while he's in federal prison, but said prosecutors are entitled to the same records. Also on Monday, prosecutors and defense attorneys filed a joint motion to delay a May 30 probable cause hearing at least until July 2.
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.
The US and Chinese presidents will hold their first summit in California in June, both sides have announced.
US President Barack Obama said on Monday that Myanmar's President Thein Sein planned to release more political prisoners and institutionalize democratic reforms in his country.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been stranded at Ecuadorian embassy in London for almost 12 months, claims he received unclassified UK intelligence “chatter” that speculated he had been framed by Swedish authorities seeking his extradition on rape charges.
Israeli troops shot at a target across the Syrian frontier on Tuesday in response to gunfire that struck its forces in the Golan Heights, the Israeli military said.
Intense fighting is reported from the strategic Syrian town of Qusair, as rebels and government forces fight to control the area. Opposition activists say 30 members of Hezbollah were killed, while the government claims to have captured the area.
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.
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.
A number of earthquakes have hit Russia’s Kamachatka region in the Far East, with seismic activity still being felt in the area.
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.
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.
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.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
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.
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".
In a protest against the plans of the Irish government to allow abortions on certain conditions the Catholic Archbishop of Boston did not attend an annual event at Boston College, where the Irish prime minister was invited to.
The death toll from a massive tornado that swept through a US suburb of Oklahoma City has risen to 91, including at least 20 children, an official told CNN early Tuesday.
Legislators in the US state of Vermont approved a "death-with-dignity" bill enabling terminally ill patients to take their own lives with lethal medication requested from their doctors.
N. Korea to continue building nuclear deterrence forces, launching satellites - ambassador
