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A tremor measuring 6 points on Richter scale hit off the north-western Sumatra coast early Tuesday. The epicenter lied 15km south-west from the city of Banda Aceh, the provincial capital and largest city in the province of Aceh, at the depth of 84 km.
The shock wave spread over the north-western island in the Indian Ocean, which is the six biggest island in the world.
Voice of Russia, RIA
Syria's opposition and government are preparing to take part in an internationally-sponsored peace conference, the United Nations-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Tuesday.
The man who shot himself dead Tuesday at Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral turned out to be a well-known far-right activist Dominique Venner. Shortly before his death Venner had written a blog post denouncing an "infamous law" legalising gay marriage in France.
As Nashua, NH, residents witness armored vehicles patrolling the streets of their usually peaceful town, blogger Pamela Rae Schuffert reports getting numerous phone calls from West Virginia, Florida, and Georgia regarding military transport jets landing in numerous cities across the country. Is America preparing for a military operation within its borders?
Russia’s and the USA’s initiative for the convocation of the Geneva-2 conference - the second conference on Syria settlement - is not to everybody’s liking, a Russian Oriental studies expert and a political analyst, Leonid Isayev, said.
The presidential election campaign is unfolding in Georgia. The main political forces have already chosen their favourites. But whoever will become the new head of state in Georgia this autumn, his (her) influence on the Georgian policy will only decrease.
Iran's electoral watchdog has barred moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from standing in a June 14 presidential election, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Usama al-Nujayfi has announced his decision to sue Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for overlooking security lapses that enabled terrorists to kill almost 100 people in a spate of terror attacks across Iraq on Monday.
According to television reports in Egypt, Egyptian air forces have raided a hideout of armed rebels in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. One of the terrorists has been killed.
The head of Israel's armed forces warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of "consequences" on Tuesday if fire from Syrian territory against Israeli troops in the occupied Golan continues.
The engineers of the Russianspace corporation RKK Energia have designed a machine that produces water out of air.
The 18th International festival "Musical Olympus" has opened in St. Petersburg.
According to an announcement made in Moscow on Tuesday, a series of joint swoop-downs carried out by Russian police and security services in the central and northwestern regions of St Petersburg, Tver, Smolensk, Pskov and Novgorod on Monday resulted in the arrest of 12 illegal arms dealers and the confiscation of over a hundred firearms and 35 kilos of explosives.
The US remains the world’s biggest sovereign debtor. In 2014, its debt is expected to amount to 76% of the annual GDP. By 2018, the figure is likely to go down, but only slightly – to approximately 71% of the GDP.
The US authorities are going to enforce a ban on gold sales to Iran as part of extra unilateral sanctions against the country from July 1. The sanctions suggest a ban on selling gold and other precious metals to private and state-run Iranian companies, as well as to individuals holding Iranian citizenship.
The former head of the Internal Revenue Service told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday he was "dismayed" to learn that the tax agency had subjected conservative groups to extra scrutiny under his watch.
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 white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) confirms that the so-called military emir of the Caucasian Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz) Djamaleil Mutaliyev, the deputy head of Doku Umarov, was eliminated in Ingushetia in the North Caucasus.
Britain's House of Commons has voted to legalize gay marriage in England and Wales. British MPs approved the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) bill by 366 votes to 161.
Russia believes global social disintegration, communal strife, economic deterioration and degradation of the natural environment cannot be checked without a productive dialogue involving the world’s major faiths.
Britain's House of Commons approves bill allowing gay marriage
