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She was speaking during a ceremony of handing over the Russian humanitarian aid at the Pyongyang bakery earlier today.
According to von Roehl, the World Food Programme is currently ensuring the supply of food to some 2 million people who make their home in 85 districts of all of North Korea’s provinces.
This kind of aid is meant above all for breastfeeding mothers, pregnant women and small children.
TASS
Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft on Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain. Mark Weiss, a retired airline pilot and Head of Civil Aviation Team of the Spectrum Consulting Group based in Washington DC, gave an interview to the Voice of Russia.
The Stockholm fire brigade has tackled fires at least two schools as rioting in suburbs of the Swedish capital continued for a fifth night. Firefighters also dealt with fires in 15 cars, two containers and a fourth building, the brigade said, while police made eight arrests. But the unrest appeared to be less intense than on other nights. The nightly riots began in a deprived, largely immigrant suburb where police shot a man dead last week.
A law enforcement official says US Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved the warrant that gave the Justice Department access to Fox News reporter James Rosen’s private e-mails.
There is no evidence that Syrian authorities use chemical weapons against the opposition, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
President Vladimir Putin has suggested to U.S. President Barrack Obama that Russia and the U.S. maintain a "dialogue without new irritants," the Interfax news agency reports citing Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.
The National Coalition of Opposition and Revolutionary Forces of Syria does not rule out the possibility of taking part in peace talks in Geneva according to a representative of the insurgents Khaled Khoja. He said that a final decision would be made tomorrow.
At least 17 children were burned to death in eastern Pakistan on Saturday when a faulty gas cylinder exploded on the bus taking them to school, police said.
Japan’s Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that radioactive substances were released on Thursday at one of the country’s nuclear physics laboratories in the Ibaraki Prefecture, a central region on the main island of Honshu with an eastern coastline.
Nigerian army units and French special forces stormed an army installation in northern Niger on Friday ending a hostage seizure by fanatical Islamist fighters responsible for twin suicide bombings that killed at least 20 people.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that a more effective system was needed to protect intellectual property rights on the Internet.
The Russian government supports the country’s cinematography, President Vladimir Putin said at a conference dedicated to the development of the film industry in Sochi.
A powerful earthquake has struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, briefly triggering a tsunami warning. The epicenter of the quake, which the US Geological Survey said was of magnitude 8.3, was in the Sea of Okhotsk, around 600 kilometers under the sea. The quake was so powerful, that tremors were felt some 7 thousand kilometers to the west in the capital Moscow.
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 Slavic Cultural Festival that timed to the 1150th anniversary of Slavic literacy and culture has ended at the Russian cultural centre in New Delhi.
Some people simply can't stop posting, friending and following, i.e. substituting a real life with surrogate feelings and emotions. Psychologists say that Internet addiction is real and they are not overreacting.
The death of Pyotr Todorovsky is a grievous loss to Russian art, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said concerning the death of the famous Russian film director. Todorovsky died in Moscow on Friday at the age of 88.
Pakistan: gas cylinder explosion at school bus kills 17 children
