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North Korea has launched yet another short-range missile in less than one day, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reports. The missile whizzed off from its east coast on Monday and into the Japan Sea.
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Russia and the US have agreed that the fate of President Bashar Assad is in the hands of the Syrian people. “The US has signed an American-Russian initiative dated May 7, which sets no preconditions whatsoever,” the Russian foreign chief stressed.
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A former Senior CIA Analyst David MacMichael told Press TV in regard to the recent spy row between Moscow and Washington that some speculations emerge that 'elements in US want to end Moscow ties'.
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Any dividing lines in Europe will prove harmful, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, told the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, during their meeting in the Russian Black Sea resort Sochi this Monday.
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A former Senior CIA Analyst David MacMichael told Press TV in regard to the recent spy row between Moscow and Washington that some speculations emerge that 'elements in US want to end Moscow ties'.
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Jagland told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov they had visited the Olympic sites and were impressed by the scope of construction works and the arenas, Voice of Russia correspondent Olga Denisova reports. He also said the Games would be a big success of Russia and the entire Olympic movement.
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Iran has announced it started mass producing an advanced air defense system, dubbed Herz-9, which is capable of automatically identifying and engaging low-altitude targets.
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Four people were killed and at least three injured Monday in a bank robbery in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, police and first aid officials said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree to sign an agreement on cooperation and collaboration in military counterintelligence between Russia and Poland.
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Russia is presenting the T-90C third-generation battle tank at the SITDEF Defense and Technology Exhibition, which is currently underway in the Peruvian capital Lima.
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The prosecutor's office has cancelled the resolution on launching a criminal case with regard to a citizen of the Netherlands who stabbed a 11-year-old Russian boy in Crete. The investigation intends to protest the decision, official spokesman for the Moscow division of the Russian Investigative Committee Sergei Stukalov has said.
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An explosion tore Monday through a gymnasium in the village of Karat, in Russia’s Caucasian republic Dagestan, the local emergency agency says.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is certain that Russia will avoid an economic crisis like the one in 2008, he told the Moscow-based daily Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
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Authorities & business community should work more closely to improve Russia's labour market – expert
At a time of slowing economic growth, labour market issues are becoming more apparent. Currently, experts in Russia talk of a lack of qualified specialists, a deteriorating demographic situation and complicated legislative framework as being among the key concerns to be addressed by politicians and the business community.
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On Monday morning with index gains helped by a 4.4% climb for China Coal Energy, Hong Kong shares were set to start at their highest point in over a week.
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A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
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In a harsh rebuttal to George Soros, the President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research Hans-Werner Sinn accused the speculator of “playing with fire” and stated that “Germany will not accept Eurobonds” in spite of the pressure from the investing community.
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In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Wolf Richter talks about the ECB's desperation, the money printing bonanza of the world's central banks and about a French finance minister who is barking at the wrong tree. Wolf Richter is the editor of , entrepreneur, private equity specialist and the author of "Big Like: Cascade Into An Odyssey".
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A bank robber in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba has shot himself, and a woman he was holding hostage has been freed, Israel's Channel 2 television reported.
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The longing for a strong hand is still common among Germans. According to a social study conducted by the Friedrich Ebert foundation for political education (FES), one in ten Germans see dictatorship as the best option for the country.
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An exhibition of Masonic paraphernalia dating back to the 18th – the first quarter of the 19th century are on display at the State Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg.
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