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On arrival, the UN chief met with Iraq’s foreign and acting women’s rights minister Hoshiar Zebari.
According to Iraqi media, Mr. Ban is going to discuss Iraq-Kuwait relations and the Syrian crisis with the country’s leadership.
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Mashhud Tegwer, spokesperson for Pakistan International Airlines, gives Voice of Russia his exclusive comment about today's incident in London's Stansted airport when a Pakistani plane was diverted from Manchester.
After many months of fierce fighting with armed terrorists, Syrian government forces have regained control of the strategic city of al-Qusayr, cutting the rebels from support in arms and manpower that reached them from neighbouring Lebanon. Syrian Brigadier General Muhammed Issa told to the Voice of Russia, that government offensive in the Qusayr area was backed by a popular militia.
There’s been no progress in the case of a Russian citizen recently detained in Vilnius at the request of the US. Both the US Justice and State Departments decline any comments while experts doubt that the arrest and extradition of Dmitry Ustinov demanded by the US were justified.
Sergey Rogov, the head of the Institute of the USA and Canada, tells in an exclusive interview to the Voice of Russia why Victoria Nuland was chosen as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs and entrusted with the relations with Russia.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Friday to take “hard decisions” to revive the Middle East peace process.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are expected to hold bilateral talks in Paris on May 27.
Mashhud Tegwer, spokesperson for Pakistan International Airlines, gives Voice of Russia his exclusive comment about today's incident in London's Stansted airport when a Pakistani plane was diverted from Manchester.
North Korea has offered to renew Six-Party nuclear disarmament talks, its envoy has been quoted as saying by South Korean media Friday. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae paid a visit to China brining a letter from his country’s leader Kim Jon Un to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Iran on Friday denied it has troops fighting for President Assad in Syria after the Syrian opposition and the Friends of Syria group of Western and Arab governments accused Iran of having forces in the country.
There’s been no progress in the case of a Russian citizen recently detained in Vilnius at the request of the US. Both the US Justice and State Departments decline any comments while experts doubt that the arrest and extradition of Dmitry Ustinov demanded by the US were justified.
The Russian government is working on a draft law to guarantee immunity to state property. Such legislation is designed to regulate claims on foreign property. A statement to this effect was made by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Eighty-five years ago, on May 24, 1928, the Italia airship with a 16-member North Pole expedition led by Umberto Nobile reached the North Pole. On its way back, the airship was caught in a storm and crashed some 100 km off Spitsbergen. That happened on May 25. Six countries then teamed up for what was the world’s first international air and sea rescue
effort. It involved 18 ships and 21 planes with the Soviet icebreaker Krasin having a key part to play in the rescue.
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 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.
The legendary St.Pete’s Mariinsky Theater for opera and ballet is launching its traditional 21st The Stars of the White Nights Festival that will run from May 25 to July 28.
Oscar-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has returned home after leaving a facility where she was being treated for her bipolar II disorder. She was spotted driving in New York on Tuesday.
Threats made aboard diverted Pakistan plane - passenger
