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Of the total of 14 bidders, only seven companies matched the upcoming tender’s criteria. Nasiriya is believed to hold 4 billion barrels of oil. In 2009, Lukoil and Norway’s Statoil won a tender to develop West Qurna-2, Iraq’s largest oilfield estimated at more than 12 billion barrels.
Voice of Russia, RIA
At least 91 people have been killed and 200 more injured when a massive tornado hit an Oklahoma City suburb overnight. Rescue teams predict the rising death toll. The VoR`s Roman Mamonov reports from the scene.
Russia’s counter-terrorist agents hope to interrogate the surviving terror suspect who was arrested during a Monday raid on a group plotting a terrorist attack in Moscow.
Medea Benjamin, the co-founder and manager of Code Pink, speaks on the ongoing Gitmo hunger strike and the reasons why indefinite detention is possible in the freedom-loving America. According to Mr. Benjamin, a myth stigmatizing Guantanamo inmates in the eyes of Americans as "the worst of the worst" means further injustice for its prisoners.
Syria’s Prime Minister Wael Nader Al-Halqi, his deputy Qadri Jamil and three other dignitaries with the Assad regime are reported to have been shortlisted for the Syrian delegation that will negotiate with the opposition if the latter gives the go-ahead to the long-due peace talks.
The Venezuelan opposition has released what it says is an audio tape revealing intrigue within the ruling socialist party of the late Hugo Chavez and Cuban meddling in the country's affairs.
The Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammedyarov, is looking to progress in a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict following Azerbaijani elections later this year.
Half-inch long cracks around a nozzle on one of the tanks of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant have been discovered. Radioactive water may have leaked into Lake Michigan.
The radical Islamic movement Taliban is going to seize power in Afghanistan after NATO troops pull out in 2014, said the Afghan Defence Ministry official, General Zaher Azimi, in a statement.
The US Department of State has released a report that points to the rise of discrimination against Jewish and Muslim people around the world.
A resident of Krasnoufismk, a town in Sverdlovsky region in the Urals, has recently become increasingly popular as the video of him crawling up the birch tree simultaneously fighting off a bear was released on Youtube.
Prosecutors and investigators have taken the prominent Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya murder case to court, the General Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement earlier this Tuesday.
The Russian Orthodox Church will never recognize same-sex marriages, even though it acknowledges freedom of choice in pursuing a certain way of life, even if a sinful one.
Russia’s economic diversification remains high on the agenda, but it is no easy matter to end our oil addiction, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is certain that Russia will avoid an economic crisis like the one in 2008, he told the Moscow-based daily Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
At a time of slowing economic growth, labour market issues are becoming more apparent. Currently, experts in Russia talk of a lack of qualified specialists, a deteriorating demographic situation and complicated legislative framework as being among the key concerns to be addressed by politicians and the business community.
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.
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.
A British businessman has had his prostate removed after he discovered he was carrying a “faulty” gene that increased his chances to get prostate cancer.
The question has been swirling ever since Francis laid his hands Sunday on the head of a young man after celebrating Mass in St. Peter’s Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, convulsed and shook, and then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him.
The Jumbo crocodile named Cassius Clay has celebrated his 110th birthday on a farm in the Northern Region, Australia, reports The NT News. To mark the event keepers of the giant reptile gave him a 20kg cake made of chicken. The treat was topped with candles.
Doku Umarov's right-hand man eliminated - Head of Ingushetia 
