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On December 28, the USS John Stennis is going to take part in 6-day naval drills in the Strait of Hormuz and the nearby Gulf of Oman.
Iran’s Navy has announced it will stage live-fire exercises in the same region to practise sealing off the strait, which accounts for over 20% of the world's oil shipments.
Meanwhile, the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu has entered the Oman’s port of Salalah on the Arabian Sea.
Voice of Russia, Interfax
Russia and the United States disagree on how to end the conflict in Syria but want the bloodshed to stop and the warring parties brought to the negotiating table, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
Tens of thousands of people last night took to the streets of major cities in Turkey in anti-government protests. Despite a mass turnout, there were no clashes with the police or major disturbances. There is a conspicuous absence of police and riot equipment in the cities, although the day before yesterday in the capital there were special task force units with water cannons at almost every intersection.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe underscores fruitful discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin spanning a range of issues, including the problem of a peace treaty.
President Barack Obama expressed skepticism Monday that setting up a no-fly zone in Syria or other major US military action could save lives or tip the balance against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
US President Barack Obama said that China has understood his "very blunt" message that cyber-hacking against the United States will lead to a deterioration of relations between the two powers.
The two-day summit of the Group of Eight opens on Monday in golf resort in the Northern Ireland. The two-year civil war in Syria tops the agenda of this gathering. Putin renewed his criticism of the Western position in startling tones, describing Assad's foes as cannibals.
A suicide bomber exploded near the home of a prominent Afghan lawmaker on Tuesday, police said, on the day that the handover of security from NATO to Afghan forces was to be announced.
An explosion on Tuesday morning rocked an area in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, close to the country's national parliament, police said.
Almost 30 people, including 20 policemen, were injured as a result of disorders in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian media report on Tuesday.
Russia’s Rosoboronexport Company has concluded its first contract to supply Iraq with the Ka-52 helicopters, RIA Novosti reported from the Le Bourget aerospace show that was opened on Monday citing a source in the Russian delegation.
Russian bailiffs are still waiting for an official notification about the death of Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky from Britain, said an official at the bailiff service on Monday.
While the U.S. government keeps on insisting that the surveillance program was a limited one and designed to protect the United States and other countries from terrorist and other threats, new leaks reveal that the U.S. and U.K. intelligence services eavesdropped on world leaders at conferences in London in 2009. This included setting up fake internet cafés in order to intercept foreign delegates' emails as well as tapping the phones. The eavesdropping program was not limited to potential adversaries, but included the U.S. and U.K.'s allies as well.
Group of Eight leaders said on Monday that world economic prospects remained weak even though downside risks have lessened due partly to policy action taken in the United States, the euro zone and Japan.
Experts, who’ve been invited to attend the 17th annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, SPIEF, believe that this kind of forum has a decisive influence on the development of global economy, as well as the global political processes.
India's central bank kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged on Monday after three successive cuts this year, due to inflationary concerns, weak global factors and a depreciating local currency.
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.
New Yorkers may soon be obliged to separate their food scraps – like stale bread, chicken bones and potato peels – for further composting, as City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administration is set on a new program intended to make the Big Apple greener, not to mention huge cost savings.
The "Gorky Prize" has been awarded on the Italian island of Capri to Italian writers and translators.
A Long Island Rail Road train headed to Hempstead derailed early Monday evening just after leaving Penn Station, as it was entering the East River tunnel, officials said.
Kabul suicide attack near lawmaker's house - police
