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One policeman has been killed in a bomb attack on Gamzatov Avenue not far from the Dagestani Interior Ministry headquarters in Makhachkala on Saturday, the ministry said.
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UK security service MI5 tried to recruit London attack suspect Michael Adebolajo about six months ago, the suspect’s friend has said. (VIDEO)
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Community patrols and a beefed-up police presence helped to calm violence around Stockholm overnight on Saturday but 20 to 30 cars were still torched in poor immigrant suburbs and serious incidents were reported outside the capital for the first time.
Politics
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This week official Damascus and the Syrian opposition, supported by international intermediaries, continued consultations on holding an international conference on Syria. This conference will possibly take place in June.
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The military presence of Western forces in Afghanistan should not be long, otherwise NATO will have to get a new mandate from the UN, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev told Interfax in an interview.
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There is no evidence that Syrian authorities use chemical weapons against the opposition, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
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A 24-year-old woman has died after she was attacked by a tiger inside an enclosure at a zoo in Cumbria.
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Community patrols and a beefed-up police presence helped to calm violence around Stockholm overnight on Saturday but 20 to 30 cars were still torched in poor immigrant suburbs and serious incidents were reported outside the capital for the first time.
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German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has called for ridding Europe of Islamists. In his opinion, not only Islamic militants but those who openly support the extremist ideology should be driven out. France has already begun to do this. It could soon be joined by Britain, particularly in connection with the killing of a serviceman in southeast London, and Sweden, where migrants have sent the country into havoc. Other European may also choose to shoo radically minded individuals. Analysts say Europe is making the right choice in favor of discarding the so-called ‘double standards’.
Russia
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The relations between Russia and the West should hinge on trust. A statement to this effect was made by Russian military commanders and political analysts during the Global Conference on European Security which took place in Moscow this week.
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Interpol's refusal to search for Hermitage Capital co-founder and CEO William Browder is a political decision, which means that some pressure has been put on this organization, says Russian State Duma international affairs committee head Alexei Pushkov.
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One policeman has been killed in a bomb attack on Gamzatov Avenue not far from the Dagestani Interior Ministry headquarters in Makhachkala on Saturday, the ministry said.
Economy
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Society
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The 51st aikido exhibition performance has opened in Tokyo. These performances take place annually and sportsmen from all over the world participate in them.
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All Russian military servicemen and most of equipment belonging to Russia have been withdrawn from the Gabala Radar Station in Azerbaijan, Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vladimir Dorokhin told journalists on Saturday.
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A new ballet by Russian choreographer Boris Eifman has created a furor in Canada. The ballet Rodin, the latest masterpiece by Eifman Ballet St.Petersburg, received storms of applause after the company presented it for the first time at the Toronto Arts Center on Thursday.
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- Police fear another bomb attack near Dagestani Interior Ministry HQ
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- Missing Children's Day in Russia
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