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In the evening, President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge will hand official invitations to the Sochi Games to the national Olympic committees of Canada, Brazil, South Korea and Russia at Sochi’s Grand Ice Palace.
The ceremony will be followed by a spectacular ice show telling about key stages of Olympic preparations over the five years since Sochi won its bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympiad.
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Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft on Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain. Mark Weiss, a retired airline pilot and Head of Civil Aviation Team of the Spectrum Consulting Group based in Washington DC, gave an interview to the Voice of Russia.
After many months of fierce fighting with armed terrorists, Syrian government forces have regained control of the strategic city of al-Qusayr, cutting the rebels from support in arms and manpower that reached them from neighbouring Lebanon. Syrian Brigadier General Muhammed Issa told to the Voice of Russia, that government offensive in the Qusayr area was backed by a popular militia.
The new, magnitude 6.8 quake was registered at a depth of 623 kilometres (387 miles) in the Sea of Okhotsk, the USGS said.
US President has said he is determined to close the prison in Guantanamo where terror-suspects have been detained without indictment. He made this statement at the National Defence University.
Speaking on the phone Friday, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his American counterpart John Kerry agreed to meet in Paris on Monday to review preparations for the next conference on Syria.
After interrupting U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent speech on Guantanamo in which Obama expressed a desire to close the Guantanamo prison and allow for the transfer of prisoners to Yemen the co-founder of CodePink spoke to us on the event and on whether she thinks Obama is sincere in a desire to close Guantanamo. She said it is ridiculous that Obama is attempting to blame the U.S. Congress when he can close Guantanamo himself if he really desires to do so.
The damage caused by tornados in the US is estimated at $5 billion, says Eqecat international group that estimates disasters.
A car bomb attack in the Afghan capital Kabul injured four workers of the International Organization for Migration, its official said on Friday.
Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft on Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain. Mark Weiss, a retired airline pilot and Head of Civil Aviation Team of the Spectrum Consulting Group based in Washington DC, gave an interview to the Voice of Russia.
The Russian government supports the country’s cinematography, President Vladimir Putin said at a conference dedicated to the development of the film industry in Sochi.
A powerful earthquake has struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, briefly triggering a tsunami warning. The epicenter of the quake, which the US Geological Survey said was of magnitude 8.3, was in the Sea of Okhotsk, around 600 kilometers under the sea. The quake was so powerful, that tremors were felt some 7 thousand kilometers to the west in the capital Moscow.
Fire crews arriving at the Leninsky Prospekt street in southwestern Moscow have successfully extinguished a second-storey apartment blaze which was started by a strike of lightning.
The European Union will emerge from the current crisis stronger than before if the EU governments pursue their previously set agendas and discard their self-serving interests.
After the end of World War II the US dollar replaced the British pound as the main reserve currency of the world. The currency reserves of the world’s central banks are mostly kept in dollars and most of the commodities essential to the functioning of the world economy are priced in dollars.
The Cyprus government "is determined to fight money laundering and terrorist financing and is constantly improving measures in this area", according to a statement made by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic.
On Thursday, the Japanese stock market experienced its biggest one-day plunge since 2011 caused by an earthquake coupled with a giant tsunami. This time, the cause of the crash had nothing to do with a natural disaster.
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.
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.
Some people simply can't stop posting, friending and following, i.e. substituting a real life with surrogate feelings and emotions. Psychologists say that Internet addiction is real and they are not overreacting.
The death of Pyotr Todorovsky is a grievous loss to Russian art, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said concerning the death of the famous Russian film director. Todorovsky died in Moscow on Friday at the age of 88.
The legendary St.Pete’s Mariinsky Theater for opera and ballet is launching its traditional 21st The Stars of the White Nights Festival that will run from May 25 to July 28.
Guatemala extradites ex-president to US
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