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Lior Asulin was detained during a time-out at a game between Hapoel Ironi Rishon LeZion and the Nazareth Soccer Club.
Police officers ignored the club’s managers who vowed to repay Asulin’s debts after the match is over, saying they were acting on a warrant.
As a result, Ironi lost its striker and couldn’t get a single goal through. The matchup ended in a 0:0 tie.
Voice of Russia, Interfax
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.
Russia will do its utmost to secure the return of Russian nationals Victor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, who were convicted in the US, for serving their sentences in Russia. Lawyers for Bout and Yaroshenko insist that their sentences should be revised. Should that prove impossible, they demand that their appeals receive fair hearings.
Analysts feel that the spy scandal will in no way affect further relations between Moscow and Washington. The US State Department also hopes so. Third Secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow, Ryan Fogle, has been caught red- handed by Russian FSB officers, declared a persona non grata and expelled from Moscow. Experts are certain that this is all there can be to it, given that the world situation is so grave now that neither the US, nor Russia is wishing to take an ultra-hard stand on the issue.
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, currently on a visit to the Russian Black Sea resort Sochi, went to see a city school earlier this Saturday.
Iran has invited the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to sign a protocol that would give explanations on each of the so-called suspicious item on the Iranian nuclear program and expects in exchange that the Iranian nuclear file will be closed, including in the UN Security Council, Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi said.
The situation in Syria and around it, a Middle East settlement, the problem of Western Sahara and the Mali crisis should all be settled on the basis of the UN Charter principles.
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.
Moscow has claimed that a wave of violence in Iraq this week is largely a spillover of "terrorist activity" in neighboring Syria.
Syrian rebels have seized several villages loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the centre of the country, an activists group reported on Saturday.
A national of Tajikistan has been detained for hurling a rock at the building of the Brazilian Embassy in central Moscow and damaging one of the doors, a law enforcement source said on Saturday.
Analysts feel that the spy scandal will in no way affect further relations between Moscow and Washington. The US State Department also hopes so. Third Secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow, Ryan Fogle, has been caught red- handed by Russian FSB officers, declared a persona non grata and expelled from Moscow. Experts are certain that this is all there can be to it, given that the world situation is so grave now that neither the US, nor Russia is wishing to take an ultra-hard stand on the issue.
The 11th International Design Festival is opening in the Central Russian city of Voronezh on Saturday.
Economic issues took centre stage Saturday when German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis at the Vatican, two days after the pontiff called unbridled capitalism ungodly.
Natural disasters have cost the global economy $2.5 trillion since 2000, that’s according to a UN report released on Wednesday. These figures are at least 50% higher than previous international estimates. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction warned economic losses from earthquakes, floods and droughts will continue to escalate, unless businesses take action to reduce their exposure to disaster risks.
European Stabilization Fund has transferred a bailout tranche of 4.2 billion euros to Greece.
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".
Russia will do its utmost to secure the return of Russian nationals Victor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, who were convicted in the US, for serving their sentences in Russia. Lawyers for Bout and Yaroshenko insist that their sentences should be revised. Should that prove impossible, they demand that their appeals receive fair hearings.
The summer is due soon, but it’s snowing in Europe. A cold-air outbreak has hit the north of Spain where it borders Portugal. The air temperature dropped to one degree above zero Centigrade there, and it started snowing.
Museums and exhibition halls all over Russia will be open to the public until midnight on May 18th, which marks International Museum Day.
Slovenia may sue Moody's over rating downgrade timing - premier
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