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Clashes between government troops and FARC rebels are continuing despite the ongoing talks between the Colombian authorities and the rebel leaders.
The rebels insist on a bilateral ceasefire, something the Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, says he cannot accept at the moment.
Voice of Russia, Interfax
According to Syrian and Lebanese media, the rebel defenders of Al-Qusayr near Homs in southwestern Syria have lost hundreds of men in their attempts to hold out against attacking government troops.
Analysts believe the latest missile firings by North Korea are part of a political chess game aimed at attracting international attention and extorting concessions.
20-year-old Dutch national Syrian Schrijver, who tried to kill a Russian boy name Nikita Onishchenko in Crete, will be brought before the court today in order to testify.
Tunisian Prime Minister Ali al-Areyd accused the Salafist group "Ansar al-Sharia" (Defenders of Sharia law) in connection with terrorist attacks cross the country. He made the statement on local television.
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev is due to visit Washington where he is scheduled to hold talks with the U.S. National Security Council, and perhaps give a letter from President Vladimir Putin to his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama.
On Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland, the Kremlin reports.
In the last two days the Nigerian army liquidated 14 terrorists in the north of the country.
The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department.
The world's largest hydroelectric power station is to be built in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The first woman mountain climber in the history of Ingushetia Leila Albogachieva has climbed the highest peak in the world, taking with her the flag of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, which she raised on the summit.
On the night from May 18 to May 19th hundreds of thousands of people all across Russia - from Vladivostok in the Far East to Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea joined the Museum Night international cultural event marking the International Museum Day. Only in Moscow the Museum Night attracted more than 1 million people.
Russia's Supreme Court said Sunday it would hear an appeal against the second conviction of jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
On Monday morning with index gains helped by a 4.4% climb for China Coal Energy, Hong Kong shares were set to start at their highest point in over a week.
The Russian government has received prime ministerial instructions to work out measures which would allow Russia to buck the global downward trend and ignite sustained economic expansion at an annual rate of at least 4%.
The European Union has postponed plans to introduce separate labelling for products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported on Sunday.
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".
Rescuers recovered five more bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 14, police said Monday. Fourteen other workers were still missing and feared dead.
20-year-old Dutch national Syrian Schrijver, who tried to kill a Russian boy name Nikita Onishchenko in Crete, will be brought before the court today in order to testify.
Governor Mary Fallin declared a State of Emergency for 16 Oklahoma counties due to tornadoes, severe storms, straight-line winds and flooding that began Saturday.
14 bodies removed from collapsed mine in Indonesia where 28 are believed dead
