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The Saturday bomb attack in Makhachkala could have been committed by Madina Aliyeva (Salakhanova), a city resident, who had been considered missing since May 13, a Dagestani law enforcement source told Interfax.
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Russian MP Semyon Bagdasarov on Interpol’s resufal to assit Russia in tracking William Browder in exclusive interview to the Voice of Russia.
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UK security service MI5 tried to recruit London attack suspect Michael Adebolajo about six months ago, the suspect’s friend has said. (VIDEO)
Politics
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Russia has plans for an adequate technological response to any American missile defence system based on European soil.
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French President Francois Hollande on Saturday invited African leaders to a "peace and security" summit later in the year.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych could come to Astana at the time when the leaders of the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union member-states gather there for a summit at the end of May, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov said.
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The final death toll in the EF5 tornado that ripped through Moore just outside Oklahoma City on Monday is 24, including 10 children. Locals complain about exorbitant prices and rising insurance costs.
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Six Iranian pilgrims were killed and 20 wounded on Saturday in a car bombing north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, said security officials.
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An organisation calling itself the "Syrian Electronic Army" has launched a cyber attack against the water distribution system of Haifa, Israel's third largest city, an expert said on Saturday.
Russia
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Patriarch Kirill has unveiled a Moscow statue of St Germogen, a Russian Patriarch who was martyred by invaders from Poland in 1612.
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"The passengers of a Boeing 777 en route from Moscow to New York,which earlier made an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport shortly after takeoff, are safe and sound", Sergey Bykhal, spokesman for Transaero aircarrier that operated the flight, told the Voice of Russia.
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An Interior Ministry update put the number of those injured in a suicide bomb attack in the North Caucasus city of Makhachkala on Saturday at 13.
Economy
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Brazil said Saturday it plans to cancel $900 million (700 million euro) worth of debt in 12 African countries, as part of a broader strategy to boost ties with the continent.
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Lebanese banks in Cyprus have wired over $1.2 billion in deposits back to Lebanon in the last two weeks, the Daily Star wrote Saturday.
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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.
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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.
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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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An estimated crowd of 80,000 people turned up in Palermo on Saturday for the beatification of Father Pino Puglisi, an anti-mafia priest killed in the Sicilian city 20 years ago.
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Albania introduced four-month visa-free travel for Russians today.
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The Vice-Admiral Kulakov large anti-submarine ship of the Russian Northern Fleet has arrived in Liverpool on an unofficial visit.
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