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The FBI confirmed that a special agent was conducting “official duties” when he shot and killed a man whom FBI interviewed in recent weeks about his ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
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The footless body of an Afghan man missing since last November was found Tuesday near the former US Special Forces base. Afghan officials and victim’s representatives believe the discovery is directly connected to Zakaria Kandahari, a notorious Afghan-American interpreter and US wartime collaborator. who Afghan officials believe has American citizenship.
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At their latest gathering in Amman in Jordan, the nations known as the Friends of Syria accused Russia and Iran of supplying the regime of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with modern arms. The actual situation, however, is very different. It is Assad’s Western and Arab foes who rush support, including arms, to one of the sides in the civil war in Syria.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday to make "a commitment to find peace in his country," ahead of a meeting of the Friends of Syria group in Amman.
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As Senate panel votes to provide weapons to rebels battling the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, many begin to wonder what will happen if those weapons get into the hands of terrorists.
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The footless body of an Afghan man missing since last November was found Tuesday near the former US Special Forces base. Afghan officials and victim’s representatives believe the discovery is directly connected to Zakaria Kandahari, a notorious Afghan-American interpreter and US wartime collaborator. who Afghan officials believe has American citizenship.
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The conflict in Syria has displaced more than two-thirds of the Palestinian refugees living in the country, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA said on Wednesday.
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The head of an official inquiry into last month's collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said Wednesday the building's owner was the main culprit because he violated building codes.
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin believes that the authorities should care more about the welfare of scientists, teachers and students. This would raise the prestige of the professions of a scientist and a teacher, Mr. Putin says.
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In the coming three years, the Russian government will spend some 90bln roubles on programmes to speed up social and economic development in depressed rural areas.
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Ballerina Olga Smirnova, a rising star of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, has won a prestigious Benois de la Danse ballet award. She is the only woman in the company of six Benois de la Danse-2013 awardees, the other five being two male dancers and three male choreographers. The awards ceremony preceded the opening of the Benois de la Danse festival in Moscow.
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The summit of the European Union that has opened in Brussels is expected to be focused on addressing tax evasion by relaxing bank secrecy rules beginning with January 2015.
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The Internal Revenue Service official who this month revealed the US tax agency's targeting of conservative groups asserted her constitutional right not to answer questions before a US congressional committee on Wednesday.
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The EU energy policy is one of the main topics at the EU summit that is currently underway in Brussels. Among other things, discussions are being unfolding there around the future of the shale gas in Europe. Despite the fact that great hopes are linked with shale gas, concrete decisions have not yet followed. The point is that there are many questions now about the future of the shale gas.
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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.
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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.
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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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The famous Italian opera house La Scala did not miss out on the celebration of the 200-year anniversary of composer Richard Wagner's birth. Carlo Maria Cella, the head of La Scala's press relations, talked to the Voice of Russia about what Wagner represents for Italy and the entire world.
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Henri Dutilleux, one of France's leading 20th century composers, has died on Wednesday in Paris at the age of 97, his family announced.
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The capuchin monkey named Mally, which was seized from Canadian pop-star Justin Bieber by customs officials in Munich in March, officially became property of Germany. Bieber has six weeks to contest the decision.
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