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North Korea has launched another short-range missile, Yonhap news agency reported referring to the South Korea’s Defense Ministry.
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A Russian defector, former Russian security officer and a body guard of Boris Berezovsky Alexander Litvinenko suddenly died in London in November 2006 with symptoms of what British forensic experts described as poisoning with radioactive polonium. Earlier this week, Foreign Secretary William Hague issued instructions to purge the Litvinenko inquest of all evidence that could implicate Russia in Litvinenko’s death or suggest that British special services could have averted the tragedy.
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Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday before an international TV audience of around 125 million, winning the annual competition with a barefoot performance backed by flutes and drums.
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday will hold a conference in Sochi on cross subsidizing in power engineering, the Kremlin press service reports.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon voiced hope Sunday that North Korea will avoid future missile tests, after the Stalinist state fired three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday that an international conference on Syria may be held in early June, Russia’s RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
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Egyptian police closed a commercial passage with Israel on Sunday in support of colleagues who shut down a crossing with Gaza to protest the abduction of policemen, state media reported.
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Syrian troops backed by fighters from Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched an assault on the rebel-held central town of Qusayr on Sunday, after months of fierce fighting in the area, a watchdog said.
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Tunisian Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia has told its supporters to stay away from Kairouan, where the hardline Islamist group's annual congress was due to take place Sunday despite a government ban.
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Alexei Balabanov, a director who captured the essence of Russia's early post-Soviet years with cult films about crime and the war in Chechnya, has died at the age of 54 following a long illness.
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The Chekhov International Theater Festival opens in Moscow on Sunday with the production of “Raoul” by James Thiérrée. He is a grandson of the genial actor and film director Charles Chaplin. His sister Aurelia Thiérrée plays in “Murmures des Murs” staged by Chaplin’s daughter Victoria Thiérrée Chaplin. The renowned Canadian director Robert Lepage will present his new work “Playing Cards”.
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Russian Public Television, a new Russian federal television station, comes on air on Sunday. The channel will automatically be added to the networks of all operators of cable, satellite and IP-television.
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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.
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The importance of the Russia-ASEAN business forum, which will be held on the sidelines of the 17th St Petersburg International Economic Forum, is to attract investment into Russia and also to make Russian companies aware of money-making opportunities that exist in ASEAN countries, believes executive director of the Russia-ASEAN Business Council, Viktor Tarusin.
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Cyprus Finance Ministry has removed restrictions on financial transactions of another six foreign banks. The list features a branch of the Ukrainian Privatbank.
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