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This came in a statement in Tokyo by the Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura. The Japanese 50-man strong force, which forms part of the UN peacekeeping contingent, is due to return home within one month.
The peacekeepers have been monitoring the ceasefire between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights since 1974. But Tokyo feels that the situation has started to spiral out control of the UN force recently.
Voice of Russia, TASS
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.
The man who shot himself dead Tuesday at Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral turned out to be a well-known far-right activist Dominique Venner. Shortly before his death Venner had written a blog post denouncing an "infamous law" legalising gay marriage in France.
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?
Iran's electoral watchdog has barred moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from standing in a June 14 presidential election, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
Nino Burdzhanadze has a good chance to become the president of Georgia, a Georgian political analyst, Archil Chkoidze, told the Voice of Russia.
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.
According to television reports in Egypt, Egyptian air forces have raided a hideout of armed rebels in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. One of the terrorists has been killed.
The head of Israel's armed forces warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of "consequences" on Tuesday if fire from Syrian territory against Israeli troops in the occupied Golan continues.
The space agency awarded a $125,000 grant to its Contractor Anjan to develop 3D printing food for astronauts. While the space agency’s main concern is efficient food storage for long-haul space flights, Anjan hopes this technology could help people in the most remote areas of our planet to get access to the variety and volume of food they need.
According to an announcement made in Moscow on Tuesday, a series of joint swoop-downs carried out by Russian police and security services in the central and northwestern regions of St Petersburg, Tver, Smolensk, Pskov and Novgorod on Monday resulted in the arrest of 12 illegal arms dealers and the confiscation of over a hundred firearms and 35 kilos of explosives.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has demanded that the United Shipbuilding Corporation speed up the handover of ships to the Russian Navy.
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.
The US remains the world’s biggest sovereign debtor. In 2014, its debt is expected to amount to 76% of the annual GDP. By 2018, the figure is likely to go down, but only slightly – to approximately 71% of the GDP.
The US authorities are going to enforce a ban on gold sales to Iran as part of extra unilateral sanctions against the country from July 1. The sanctions suggest a ban on selling gold and other precious metals to private and state-run Iranian companies, as well as to individuals holding Iranian citizenship.
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.
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)
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the organizer of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, has rejected all claims of ignoring the Azeri votes for the Russian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Dina Garipova, who took the 5th place there.
A scandal around the wrong counting of votes of the Russian singer at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Dina Garipova has reached a political level. The foreign ministers of Russia and Azerbaijan plan to carefully study this situation, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on the results of talks with his Azeri counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov. And as regards Dina Garipova herself, she is satisfied with her results and has no plans to dispute them.
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.
Iran's Rafsanjani barred from standing for president
