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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.
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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.
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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.
Politics
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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.
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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.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry flew in to Israel Thursday as he kept up a push to bring Israelis and Palestinians back to peace negotiations amid a growing scepticism over his efforts.
World
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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.
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France is ready to support a British initiative to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the European Union's list of terrorist organisations, an official said on Thursday, confirming comments by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
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Israel's government is divided on the issue of peace with the Palestinians, its top negotiator and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday ahead of a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Russia
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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.
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President Vladimir Putin believes Russia’s spectrum of ethnic groups, cultures and faiths is a great boon for the country’s development.
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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.
Economy
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Ford Motor Co (F.N) announced it is closing its two Australian auto plants and will cease production in the country in October 2016.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
Society
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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.
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In the aftermath of the Oklahoma tornado, many parents are questioning why some schools have tornado shelters and others do not. "I'm really upset. I know there were shelters in some schools and the fact that there aren't shelters in other schools just shows disparity,” Helen Grant who stayed in her friend’s shelter in Moore, said. She thought her daughters were doing the same at school. Instead they used the bathroom in their school as their storm shelter.
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The Islamist fanatics, who hacked a serviceman in London yesterday afternoon in broad daylight, share the al-Qaeda ideology and had sought to kindle a religious war in the British capital, according to video tapes made at the scene of the murder in Woolwich in southeast London.
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- New Russian technology to ‘neutralize’ US missile shield
- Russia’s foreign chief warns US against unilateral risk assessment
- France is ready to put Hezbollah armed wing on EU terror list
- London attackers wanted to set off religious war
- Israel's government is divided on the issue of peace with the Palestinians
- Russia bashes the West over ‘one-sided’ view on missile defense
- Kerry back in Israel for peace push
- Syria will be high on agenda of Russia-EU summit in Yekaterinburg
- Britain's Cameron to hold crisis meeting after London attack
- Obama meets Russian top security official to reaffirm strong partnership
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