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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.
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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.
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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?
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and British Foreign Secretary William Hague discussed the situation in Syria in a telephone conversation at Britain's initiative on Tuesday.
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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?
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Russia believes the participants of the next international conference on Syria, that is to be convened in accordance with a recent understanding reached between Moscow and Washington, must include Iran, as well as Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries.
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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.
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A Turkish court in the Mugla province has sentenced four bootleggers to 90 years in prison each. They were accused of poisoning a group of Russian tourists in 2011 with bootleg alcohol, while another three were sentenced 7.5 years in prison. One person was acquitted. At first, the prosecutors’ office demanded life sentences for the defendants accusing them of deliberate murder.
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A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them.
Russia
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has demanded that the United Shipbuilding Corporation speed up the handover of ships to the Russian Navy.
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Moscow's Lefortovsky Court has sanctioned the arrest of Robert Amerkhanov, whom Federal Security Service (FSB) special forces detained in Orekhovo-Zuyevo outside Moscow on Monday.
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This Tuesday marks 282 years since Russia established a naval presence in the Pacific. An imperial decree issued May 21 1721 created a naval flotilla based in Okhotsk on the Russian coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. In 1871, the Pacific Naval Fleet moved its main base to Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan. Since the immediate postwar period, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula has been the main base.
Economy
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the organizer of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, has rejected all claims of ignoring the Azeri votes for the Russian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Dina Garipova, who took the 5th place there.
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A scandal around the wrong counting of votes of the Russian singer at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Dina Garipova has reached a political level. The foreign ministers of Russia and Azerbaijan plan to carefully study this situation, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on the results of talks with his Azeri counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov. And as regards Dina Garipova herself, she is satisfied with her results and has no plans to dispute them.
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A man shot himself dead Tuesday in front of the altar of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, forcing the evacuation of the French capital's famed tourist spot, police told reporters.
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