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Israel is the only country in the region which has not yet done so. The resolution also calls on the Jewish State to place all its nuclear activities under the Atomic Energy Agency's monitoring and safeguard system.
Even though Tel Aviv neither confirms nor denies its nuclear capability, Russian intelligence believes Israel may have between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads.
Voice of Russia, TASS
The United States has no specific plans to establish a working relationship with Russia on order to implement previous proposals by U.S. President Barack Obama to further reduce nuclear weapons.
Brazil's two biggest cities revoked an increase in public transportation fares, Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin and Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes said on Wednesday, following the largest protests seen in the country in 20 years.
The incident with the leakage of classified information continues to be a hot topic in China. The official mass media and bloggers express opinions on it.
The United States has no specific plans to establish a working relationship with Russia on order to implement previous proposals by U.S. President Barack Obama to further reduce nuclear weapons.
North Korea has expressed willingness to restart long-stalled nuclear talks with international partners, China's foreign ministry has said. According to its website, North Korean officials said they wanted to "peacefully resolve the nuclear issue".
Moscow finds it necessary to implement the existing START treaty and find an acceptable form of resolving the problem of missile defense before discussing the proposal of US President Barack Obama on the reduction of the nuclear potentials of Russia and the United States, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has said.
Russia condemns the attack of militants from the Al-Shabaab Islamist group on UN's facilities in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit the central Chilean region of Valparaiso at 5:30 p.m. (2130 GMT) on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway in the nearby capital of Santiago but no reports of damage.
Militants of the fanatical Islamist group Jebhat an-Nusra operating in Syria set fire to a Syrian Christian church in Deir ez-Zor on the Euphrates.
Russian Foreign Ministry's Special Representative for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law Konstantin Dolgov says that it would hardly be possible for Russia's representatives to visit the children's camp “Ranch for Kids” in Montana without assistance of the US's State Department.
President Putin spoke about this at a high-level government meeting held to review the progress of Russia’s rearmament programme for the period to 2020.
President Vladimir Putin finds it impossible "to permit a violation of the balance in the system of strategic deterrence or a decline in the efficiency of Russian nuclear forces."
Media reports saying that the Cypriot government wants to renegotiate its agreement with the Eurogroup regarding its assistance program are not true stated the President of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiadis.
The decline in production and consumption, insufficient investments and currency risks top the agenda of the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum, which will take place in St.Petersburg between June 20th and 22nd . Given that these issues of global concern could lead to a new wave of economic crisis, the participants in the forum, which will be attended by President Vladimir Putin, say that it’s time to act and call for ‘decisive action’
The World Bank on Wednesday warned that severe hardships from global warming could be felt within a generation, with a new study detailing devastating impacts in Africa and Asia.
The Fitch rating agency is concerned about the unregulated part of the Chinese banking sector. The so-called “shadow banks” pose systemic risks for the country’s economy.
The Iranian economy is experiencing severe stress caused by the international sanctions against Tehran. An unofficial estimate of the Iranian inflation rate is almost three times the official annual inflation figure.
The foreign exchange market is now in the crosshairs of the global financial regulators in the aftermath of the rate-rigging scandals in currency rates and interest rates markets.
Three people have died and fourth is being treated at a hospital after a shooting in at condominium complex. Dwight Mitchell, a Louisville Metro Police Department spokesperson, confirmed the deaths and injuries, but would not go into details about the shooting other than saying it happened inside a unit of the condo complex.
Brazil's two biggest cities revoked an increase in public transportation fares, Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin and Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes said on Wednesday, following the largest protests seen in the country in 20 years.
Senior Russian lawmaker has called succesful the counry's participation in the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, where Russia managed to uphold its position on Syria. Alexei Pushkov praised Russia's offers during the summit to prevent Syria from being turned into the second Iraq or Libya. The humanitarian crisis in Syria worsens day by day. Millions have fled the country since the conflict errupted. The UN has said in the report that there are 45.2 millions people forcibly displaced world wide. It's the highest number of its kind since 1994.
3 dead, 1 injured in shooting at apartment complex in US
