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Syria's opposition and government are preparing to take part in an internationally-sponsored peace conference, the United Nations-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Tuesday.
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As Nashua, NH, residents witness armored vehicles patrolling the streets of their usually peaceful town, blogger Pamela Rae Schuffert reports getting numerous phone calls from West Virginia, Florida, and Georgia regarding military transport jets landing in numerous cities across the country. Is America preparing for a military operation within its borders?
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At least 24 people have been killed and 200 more injured when a massive tornado hit an Oklahoma City suburb overnight. Rescue teams predict the rising death toll. The VoR`s Roman Mamonov reports from the scene.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and British Foreign Secretary William Hague discussed the situation in Syria in a telephone conversation at Britain's initiative on Tuesday.
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As Nashua, NH, residents witness armored vehicles patrolling the streets of their usually peaceful town, blogger Pamela Rae Schuffert reports getting numerous phone calls from West Virginia, Florida, and Georgia regarding military transport jets landing in numerous cities across the country. Is America preparing for a military operation within its borders?
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Russia believes the participants of the next international conference on Syria, that is to be convened in accordance with a recent understanding reached between Moscow and Washington, must include Iran, as well as Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries.
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A Turkish court in the Mugla province has sentenced four bootleggers to 90 years in prison each. They were accused of poisoning a group of Russian tourists in 2011 with bootleg alcohol, while another three were sentenced 7.5 years in prison. One person was acquitted. At first, the prosecutors’ office demanded life sentences for the defendants accusing them of deliberate murder.
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A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them.
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Tumblr pornographers, breath - Yahoo comes in peace. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently announced that even after the acquisition of Tumblr by the media-giant, she wants to "let Tumblr be Tumblr," which includes allowing its numerous X-rated accounts to continue distributing pornography undisturbed.
Russia
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Moscow's Lefortovsky Court has sanctioned the arrest of Robert Amerkhanov, whom Federal Security Service (FSB) special forces detained in Orekhovo-Zuyevo outside Moscow on Monday.
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This Tuesday marks 282 years since Russia established a naval presence in the Pacific. An imperial decree issued May 21 1721 created a naval flotilla based in Okhotsk on the Russian coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. In 1871, the Pacific Naval Fleet moved its main base to Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan. Since the immediate postwar period, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula has been the main base.
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Western internet users awestruck by the bravery and courage of the Russian soldier who had a bullet, or a fragment of a shrapnel, extracted from his forehand with the pliers in ‘field conditions’. The video of the incident was recently released on Youtube and LiveLeak.com.
Economy
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The former head of the Internal Revenue Service told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday he was "dismayed" to learn that the tax agency had subjected conservative groups to extra scrutiny under his watch.
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Russia’s economic diversification remains high on the agenda, but it is no easy matter to end our oil addiction, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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A man shot himself dead Tuesday in front of the altar of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, forcing the evacuation of the French capital's famed tourist spot, police told reporters.
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Over one billion people across the world smoke. This and other frightening figures were revealed by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, when they are compared with ten-year-old statistics, they seem to be not so frightening. The demand for cigarettes has started falling especially in countries in Europe and North America. In the early 2000s, 46% men and 26% women smoked in Europe, while at present, these figures are below 30%. The researchers of the tobacco market see the reason for the drop in demand for tobacco in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control adopted ten years ago.
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Officials in Oklahoma City said on Tuesday that 24 bodies were recovered after a devastating tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma, a sharp decline from the 51 deaths they previously reported.
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