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First time it will happen on December 31 when the ISS is above New Zealand and the last time on January 1 when the ISS is above the Pacific Ocean east off the Australian coast.
The ISS crew includes Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Evgeny Tarelkin, Roman Romanenko, US astronauts Kevin Ford, Thomas Marshburn and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Voice of Russia, RIA
The final death toll in the EF5 tornado that ripped through Moore just outside Oklahoma City on Monday is 24, including 10 children. Locals complain about exorbitant prices and rising insurance costs.
An emergency medical flight landing in Moscow has brought the casualties of Saturday morning’s terror attack in Makhachkala in Dagestan.
Russian MP Semyon Bagdasarov on Interpol’s resufal to assit Russia in tracking William Browder in exclusive interview to the Voice of Russia.
A court of appeals in the West Georgian city of Kutaisi turned down an appeal from former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili, charged with corruption and abuse of office, and ruled to keep him in custody.
Russia is after friendly relations and productive cooperation with all countries in Africa.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday vowed "victory" in Syria, where militants of his powerful Lebanese Shiite movement are fighting alongside regular troops against rebels trying to topple the regime.
President Obama will travel to Oklahoma on Sunday to see firsthand the areas devastated by this week’s deadly tornadoes, the White House announced.
A documentary 'L'Image Manquante' (The Missing Picture) telling the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's family perished under the Khmer Rouge regime won the top prize in the second most important competition at the Cannes film festival on Saturday in the category Un Certain Regard that was set up to encourage emerging and innovative filmmakers.
Portugal has witnessed a mass demonstration urging resignation of the government and new elections.
A medical examination has confirmed that the driver who ran over three cyclists on Saturday at the Exhibition Center in Moscow was drunk, reported RIA Novosti with reference to a spokesperson for the press service of the capital’s Ministry of the Interior office.
Patriarch Kirill has unveiled a Moscow statue of St Germogen, a Russian Patriarch who was martyred by invaders from Poland in 1612.
"The passengers of a Boeing 777 en route from Moscow to New York,which earlier made an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport shortly after takeoff, are safe and sound", Sergey Bykhal, spokesman for Transaero aircarrier that operated the flight, told the Voice of Russia.
Brazil said Saturday it plans to cancel $900 million (700 million euro) worth of debt in 12 African countries, as part of a broader strategy to boost ties with the continent.
Lebanese banks in Cyprus have wired over $1.2 billion in deposits back to Lebanon in the last two weeks, the Daily Star wrote Saturday.
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.
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.
Six residents of San Diego were taken off a Spirit Airlines flight in the United States for speaking Russian.
A Russian girl has drowned in a pool in Cyprus. The tragedy occurred on Saturday afternoon in a hotel in the resort area of Protaras.
An emergency medical flight landing in Moscow has brought the casualties of Saturday morning’s terror attack in Makhachkala in Dagestan.
Three more suspects arrested in Woolwich soldier killing - UK police
