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The attack occurred 8 km south of the Herat city, which is the administrative center of the province. The terrorist attacked an armed police vehicle, killing one officer and wounding nine.
Two policemen are said to be in critical condition. The bombing was claimed by an anti-government terrorist organization.
Voice of Russia, RIA
US President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in Oklahoma after deadly tornadoes struck the state on Sunday and Monday and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts, the White House said on Monday.
Russia’s counter-terrorist agents hope to interrogate the surviving terror suspect who was arrested during a Monday raid on a group plotting a terrorist attack in Moscow.
Russia’s police department chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev has praised the recent law enforcement reform in the country, saying it boosted security to the levels that are in some aspects incomparable with New York.
US President Barack Obama will hold his first summit with President Xi Jinping of China in California next month, with Sino-US relations rattled by alleged Chinese cyber spying and tensions in the Pacific. Only time will tell whether this is an attempt to bring about a rapprochement between the two countries or if this will simply accentuate their contradictions.
A report from a watchdog group about the IRS’ singling out conservative organizations was already known weeks beforehand by two aides to President Obama, according to a spokesperson.
North Korea has given the United States aspiration for world domination and will continue the policy of strengthening its nuclear deterrence forces and will not stop launching satellites, North Korean Ambassador to Russia Kim Yong Jae told Interfax in an interview.
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed and crucified five Yemenis convicted of murder and forming a gang which carried out robberies across several towns in the conservative Muslim kingdom, the interior ministry said.
Four bombings in northern Iraq killed five people and wounded 69 on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has killed more than 370 people so far this month.
Gary Pruitt, president and chief executive of The Associated Press, has called the US government’s actions “unconstitutional” after being informed that the Justice Department had secretly seized two months of AP’s phone records.
The Russian Emergencies Ministry has offered aid to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, in doing away with the aftermath of the tornado that hit the state of Oklahoma earlier today, killing more than 90 people. This came in a statement by the Russian Emergencies Minister, Vladimir Puchkov, as he answered a question from the ITAR-TASS news agency.
Jubilee events in honor of the anniversary took place in Vladivostok, the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet, on Tuesday, Interfax reports.
Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has called on his colleagues in the United States to jointly crack down on the threat of further spread of terrorism.
Russia’s economic diversification remains high on the agenda, but it is no easy matter to end our oil addiction, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is certain that Russia will avoid an economic crisis like the one in 2008, he told the Moscow-based daily Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
At a time of slowing economic growth, labour market issues are becoming more apparent. Currently, experts in Russia talk of a lack of qualified specialists, a deteriorating demographic situation and complicated legislative framework as being among the key concerns to be addressed by politicians and the business community.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
In a harsh rebuttal to George Soros, the President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research Hans-Werner Sinn accused the speculator of “playing with fire” and stated that “Germany will not accept Eurobonds” in spite of the pressure from the investing community.
In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Wolf Richter talks about the ECB's desperation, the money printing bonanza of the world's central banks and about a French finance minister who is barking at the wrong tree. Wolf Richter is the editor of , entrepreneur, private equity specialist and the author of "Big Like: Cascade Into An Odyssey".
Lawmakers in Texas are expected to vote Monday on a bill that, if passed, would compel Internet Service Providers (ISPs) anywhere in the world to fork over private Web records if that information could aid in a criminal investigation.
According to Cancer Council Queensland, residents on the Sunshine Coast are participating in a vast amount of unhealthy habits, at an alarming rate. Their report reveals that more residents are caring less about their skin, eating, and drinking habits.
Vasily Bogoyavlensky, an academician at the Russian Academy of Sciences, has talked to the Voice of Russia about the following topics: the percentage of untapped hydrocarbon resources on the outer continental shelf, how much higher the cost is of extracting natural resources on the outer continental shelf compared to extracting from the continent itself and why the extraction of shale gas could be more damaging to the environment than the extraction of natural gas?
Saudi beheads, crucifies 5 Yemenis for murder
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