|
|
Earlier, Saudi newspaper Al-Vatan reported that the Syrian strongman and his family allegedly inhabited a Russian military vessel stationed in the Mediterranean. The paper claimed a special chopper flew Assad to Damascus for consultations, which they said amounted to a virtual political asylum.
“The ministry doesn’t comment on gossips and rumours published in papers,” the source told the Voice of Russia. “Any intelligent person would see it is total nonsense,” he added.
Voice of Russia
UK security service MI5 tried to recruit London attack suspect Michael Adebolajo about six months ago, the suspect’s friend has said. (VIDEO)
Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft on Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain. Mark Weiss, a retired airline pilot and Head of Civil Aviation Team of the Spectrum Consulting Group based in Washington DC, gave an interview to the Voice of Russia.
The Stockholm fire brigade has tackled fires at least two schools as rioting in suburbs of the Swedish capital continued for a fifth night. Firefighters also dealt with fires in 15 cars, two containers and a fourth building, the brigade said, while police made eight arrests. But the unrest appeared to be less intense than on other nights. The nightly riots began in a deprived, largely immigrant suburb where police shot a man dead last week.
There is no evidence that Syrian authorities use chemical weapons against the opposition, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
President Vladimir Putin has suggested to U.S. President Barrack Obama that Russia and the U.S. maintain a "dialogue without new irritants," the Interfax news agency reports citing Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.
The National Coalition of Opposition and Revolutionary Forces of Syria does not rule out the possibility of taking part in peace talks in Geneva according to a representative of the insurgents Khaled Khoja. He said that a final decision would be made tomorrow.
African leaders on Saturday opened celebrations for the 50th jubilee of the continental bloc, with Africa's myriad problems set aside for a day to mark the progress that has been made.
The pilots of the Airbus A319 which made an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport on Friday acted in line with safety instructions.
Representatives of the US Army are looking into reports about cases of sexual harassment among the top-ranking staff of the Air Corps Base at Fort Freely, Alaska, NBC reports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that a more effective system was needed to protect intellectual property rights on the Internet.
The Russian government supports the country’s cinematography, President Vladimir Putin said at a conference dedicated to the development of the film industry in Sochi.
A powerful earthquake has struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, briefly triggering a tsunami warning. The epicenter of the quake, which the US Geological Survey said was of magnitude 8.3, was in the Sea of Okhotsk, around 600 kilometers under the sea. The quake was so powerful, that tremors were felt some 7 thousand kilometers to the west in the capital Moscow.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A new ballet by Russian choreographer Boris Eifman has created a furor in Canada. The ballet Rodin, the latest masterpiece by Eifman Ballet St.Petersburg, received storms of applause after the company presented it for the first time at the Toronto Arts Center on Thursday.
The Slavic Cultural Festival that timed to the 1150th anniversary of Slavic literacy and culture has ended at the Russian cultural centre in New Delhi.
Some people simply can't stop posting, friending and following, i.e. substituting a real life with surrogate feelings and emotions. Psychologists say that Internet addiction is real and they are not overreacting.
12 dead as Philippine troops clash with militants
