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"I'm going to introduce in the Senate, and the same bill will be introduced in the house, a bill to ban assault weapons," Senator Dianne Feinstein said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Friday's shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown killed 20 children aged either six or seven and six adults.
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The two terror suspects being held under armed guard at hospitals in London were both known to security services, Government sources say.
An FBI agent shot Tamerlan Tsarnaev-linked triple murder suspect Ibragim Todashev in Florida, allegedly after the suspect attacked him with a knife. But it is still unclear why before questioning agents haven’t strip-searched him. The Voice of Russia has talked to Abdulabaki Todashev, the father of the late Ibragim Todashev, who was killed by FBI agents investigating his links with Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
According to the UK officials, Woolwich terrorists were ‘lone wolves’ in a sense that it is unlikely that they had any links to terror groups based in Nigeria, such as the jihadist militant organisation Boko Haram. Nonetheless, it seems that the two men who are currently treated in London hospitals can be much more closely related to Boko Haram than the British government assumes.
According to the UK officials, Woolwich terrorists were ‘lone wolves’ in a sense that it is unlikely that they had any links to terror groups based in Nigeria, such as the jihadist militant organisation Boko Haram. Nonetheless, it seems that the two men who are currently treated in London hospitals can be much more closely related to Boko Haram than the British government assumes.
In the wake of Woolwich massacre Voice of Russia’s Tim Ecott spoke to terrorism expert Raffaello Pantucci, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, UK, who has shared his thoughts on the incident and on those who stand behind it.
Prime Minister David Cameron meets his top advisers to urgently address potential security implications following the murder in Woolwich on Wednesday.
French prosecutors began questioning International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde in a Paris court on Thursday to decide if she should be charged over a state payout to a tycoon during her time as finance minister.
Security stepped up around London mosques, 1,200 more police deployed after Woolwich killing
A uranium mine in northern Niger run by French nuclear reactor maker Areva is "badly damaged" and has stopped production for the moment after it was attacked earlier in the day, Niger government spokesman Marou Amadou said on Thursday.
A festival of Slav culture in Russia to be held on May 24th will feature a total of 200 events which will take place in 70 regions all over the country. The Festival of Slav Culture honors brothers Cyril and Methodius, the founders of the Slavonic alphabet and Christian missionaries, who are venerated as saints with the title “equal-to-apostles”. As before, Moscow will be the focus of the celebrations. The Voice of Russia’s Yelena Andrusenko reports.
Russia will not go back to the CFE Treaty, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said.
Russia has created a rocket of a new generation, called “Angara”. (“Angara” is the name of a river in Siberia.) At present, parts of this rocket, which consists of 6 stages, are being put in railway containers at the Moscow Khrunichev plant, where it was made. It is planned that on May 27, the rocket will start off to the Plesetsk cosmodrome, from which it will be launched into space. However, according to plans, the launching will take place not earlier then in May 2014.
Ford Motor Co (F.N) announced it is closing its two Australian auto plants and will cease production in the country in October 2016.
The Ukrainian government on Wednesday approved a memorandum applying for observer status in the Customs Union, a Moscow-based trade bloc comprising Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said.
This year is likely to bring a draft agreement, first proposed in 2008, for the EU countries to share information about interest accrued on deposits held in banks.
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.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
Eighteen soldiers and a civilian were killed in a car bomb attack on a military base in Niger on Thursday, the interior minister said, adding that one of the assailants had taken several trainee officers hostage.
The Turkish foreign ministry has denied reports that the murdered Chechen businessman Medet Ünlü was Chechnya’s honorary consul in Turkey.
A naked man jumped into an aquarium filled with fish for sale in a supermarket in Kryvyi Rih, central Ukraine, the local news agency "Most" reports.
CFE Treaty mechanism is dead - Russian Defense Ministry
