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A British Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport today trailing plumes of smoke from an engine.
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Friday's earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk did not effect radiation levels in the Far East and other Russian regions, a spokesman for the state atomic energy corporation Rosatom said during a conference call at the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's National Crisis Management Center.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US opposite number, Barack Obama, are planning to meet twice by the end of September 2013, Putin’s aide told reporters Friday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US opposite number, Barack Obama, are planning to meet twice by the end of September 2013, Putin’s aide told reporters Friday.
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The Syrian warring factions should not miss a chance of ending the ongoing bloodshed through holding an international conference on the problem, said the Russian Foreign Ministry official spokesman, Alexander Lukashevich, in a statement.
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Russia and the US do not see eye to eye on a whole range of issues concerning the controversial missile defense shield Washington is building in Europe.
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The Pakistani government repeated its view that US drone strikes in its territory were illegal, after President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for their use.
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One of the men who butchered a British soldier In the southeastern London district of Woolwich could be linked to a Belgian Islamist grouping called Sharia for Belgium, the local daily Het Laatste Nieuws reports.
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Hundreds of young people clashed with police and damaged cars in riots of immigrants in the suburbs of Stockholm. This outbreak of violence has challenged Sweden's image of a happy and prosperous state and put the issue of social and economic gap at the full front. The riots appeared to have been sparked by the police killing 69-year-old man wielding machete in one of the suburbs earlier this month, which prompted accusations of police brutality. Tom Sallivan from the Swedish Radio International shared with the VoR his take on the reasons behind Swedish revolts of young people, who he believes have fallen out of the system.
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A fresh epoch of cooperation opens up for Russia and Serbia, one that will help attain any objectives, said the Serbian leader, Tomislav Nikolic, in the run-up to his visit to Russia. One of our priorities is Serbian-Russian economic cooperation on the basis of kinship of languages, religion, history and culture, he said. Nikolic also thanked Moscow for Russia’s principled decision not to recognize the independence of Kosovo and Metohija.
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Friday's earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk did not effect radiation levels in the Far East and other Russian regions, a spokesman for the state atomic energy corporation Rosatom said during a conference call at the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's National Crisis Management Center.
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Early on Friday morning, Muscovites woke up to aftershocks of an 8.2-maggnitude earthquake that hit off Russia’s Far Eastern coast in the Sea of Okhotsk
Economy
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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.
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After the end of World War II the US dollar replaced the British pound as the main reserve currency of the world. The currency reserves of the world’s central banks are mostly kept in dollars and most of the commodities essential to the functioning of the world economy are priced in dollars.
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The Cyprus government "is determined to fight money laundering and terrorist financing and is constantly improving measures in this area", according to a statement made by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic.
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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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Almost 900 Moscow residents have been moved out of their homes in the Russian capital due to earth shocks that they previously complained about.
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A diamond necklace worth €2 million disappeared right in the middle of a Cannes film festival party, a Swiss jewelry company has told. Earlier, another Swiss jeweler, Chopard, confirmed gems worth $1.4 million had been stolen in the first week of the 12-day festival on the glamorous French Riviera.
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Researchers admit that both adults and teenagers underestimate how many calories they are taking in, when dining at fast-food joints, according to a study. Customers do not seem to realize what they are eating in fast-food establishments, as this study surveyed over 3 thousand adults and teenagers.
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