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Japanese patrol gunboats urged the Chinese to leave the area around the islands, but the latter ignored the demand.
The latest incident of this kind occurred on January 8th.
Tokyo integrated the Senkaku group of islands in 1895. Japan claims that the islands were inhabitable and therefore belonged to no one. But Beijing claims that the islands had been seized from China and should therefore be returned.
Voice of Russia, TASS
The US is now convinced that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its own people, US President Barack Obama said Wednesday.
The story line is beginning to sound familiar, too familiar. Young intelligent individual with high moral ideals attempts to expose the egregious clear and unarguable criminality of the U.S. Government, a government which is out of control and trampling on the rule of law and the rights of people worldwide, only to be villainized and forced to seek refuge and protection in a foreign country.
Russia was informed in Lough Erne that Washington intended to propose further nuclear arms reduction but thought that other possessors of nuclear arms were to get involved as well, Russian President Vladimir Putin's aide Yury Ushakov said at a briefing in Moscow.
Russia and Japan are due to hold deputy foreign minister level talks on the peace treaty issue in August, a senior Kremlin aide said on Wednesday.
Russia was informed in Lough Erne that Washington intended to propose further nuclear arms reduction but thought that other possessors of nuclear arms were to get involved as well, Russian President Vladimir Putin's aide Yury Ushakov said at a briefing in Moscow.
What began in late May as a protest by environmentalists upset at government plans to build on a public park that adjoined Taksim Square has grown into a movement against Turkish Prime Minister. The protests have presented Erdogan with the biggest challenge to his 10 year leadership.
On August 23, 1943 Kharkov was liberated from Nazi occupation. Two years were left till the victory. The Voice of Russia has found a participant of those events: Soviet signaler Anna Mishneva went all the way from Belgorod to the Elbe.
The last two days have witnessed a sharp increase in reports from Afghanistan. On Tuesday, the Taliban declared its readiness to start direct peace talks with the U.S. in the Qatari capital Doha. Afghan President Hamid Karzai first welcomed the news, but then demanded that the talks be moved "immediately" to Afghan soil. Since the demand is virtually impossible to be met, neither the U.S. nor the Taliban have shown any desire to fulfill it, and on Wednesday Karzai announced that he is suspending the talks with the U.S. over a security agreement that would regulate the presence of U.S. troops there beyond 2014.
The plane with the body of Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old man who was shot and killed at his Florida home by an FBI agent investigating the Boston marathon bombing, has touched down at a Moscow airport.
President Vladimir Putin finds it impossible "to permit a violation of the balance in the system of strategic deterrence or a decline in the efficiency of Russian nuclear forces."
Russia has been implementing the contracts signed with the legitimate Syrian government on perfectly legal grounds, Voice of Russia’s Margarita Bogatova has cited the Kremlin's top foreign-policy aide Yuri Ushakov as saying Thursday.
One person was confirmed killed ifollowing series of explosions and blaze at ammunition depot in Russia’s Samara Region where over 13 million shells were stored.
The decline in production and consumption, insufficient investments and currency risks top the agenda of the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum, which will take place in St.Petersburg between June 20th and 22nd . Given that these issues of global concern could lead to a new wave of economic crisis, the participants in the forum, which will be attended by President Vladimir Putin, say that it’s time to act and call for ‘decisive action’
The World Bank on Wednesday warned that severe hardships from global warming could be felt within a generation, with a new study detailing devastating impacts in Africa and Asia.
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and the president of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Zhou Jiping, discussed yesterday evening matters involved in the concluding of a long-term contract for supplying China with Russian gas, a contract planned for signing before this year is out, Gazprom said.
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.
Senior Russian lawmaker has called succesful the counry's participation in the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, where Russia managed to uphold its position on Syria. Alexei Pushkov praised Russia's offers during the summit to prevent Syria from being turned into the second Iraq or Libya. The humanitarian crisis in Syria worsens day by day. Millions have fled the country since the conflict errupted. The UN has said in the report that there are 45.2 millions people forcibly displaced world wide. It's the highest number of its kind since 1994.
The Global Media Forum in Bonn today tackled information freedom in developing countries.
North Korean authorities have taken interest in the experience of Germany’s National Socialist Party, according to a report by New Focus International, a news organization based outside North Korea, but declaring that it has access to high-level North Korean sources. It is reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, deeply impressed by Germany’s soon revival after the defeat in the First World War, handed out copies of Adolf Hitler's memoir to senior officials.
Decline in efficiency of Russian nuclear forces must not be permitted - Putin
