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Airport workers seen with laptop used in Somalia in-flight jet blast

Airport workers seen with laptop used in Somalia in-flight jet blast

Somali intelligence officials say two airport workers handled a laptop that concealed a bomb that later exploded in a passenger plane. February 8 2016, 09:42 1 994 просмотрs

Historic meeting of pope and Russian Orthodox head seen nearer

Historic meeting of pope and Russian Orthodox head seen nearer

A historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church will take place on February 12 in Cuba, azh.kzreports citing RBK. February 5 2016, 17:13 1 966 просмотрs

Don’t Mess With Grandma! 90-Year Old Woman Helps Catch Thug

Don’t Mess With Grandma! 90-Year Old Woman Helps Catch Thug

A 90-year old Russian babushka managed to help police arrest a criminal who assaulted her by grabbing his mobile phone during the scuffle. February 5 2016, 16:12 2 361 просмотрs

WikiLeaks' Assange should go free from embassy and be compensated: UN panel

WikiLeaks' Assange should go free from embassy and be compensated: UN panel

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be allowed to go free from the Ecuadorian embassy in London and awarded compensation for what amounts to a three-and-a-half-year detention, a UN panel ruled on Friday. February 5 2016, 14:55 1 795 просмотрs

General says Saudi Arabia set to deploy troops to Syria

General says Saudi Arabia set to deploy troops to Syria

Saudi Arabia is prepared to deploy ground troops to Syria to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) if US-led coalition leaders agree to the offer. February 5 2016, 10:49 1 713 просмотрs

German Professor Says All Students Should Be Required To Learn Arabic

German Professor Says All Students Should Be Required To Learn Arabic

Late last month, we reported that Austria may cut social benefits for asylum seekers who fail to attend “special integration training courses" and more specifically, for refugees who don't make an honest effort to learn German. February 5 2016, 09:45 1 929 просмотрs

No military solution to Syrian conflict, says UN head

No military solution to Syrian conflict, says UN head

Syrian conflict has no military solution, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said at the 'Supporting Syria and the Region' conference, which kicked off in London Feb. 4, RIA Novosti news agency reported. February 4 2016, 18:03 1 658 просмотрs

‘You created ISIS!’ Press conference scandal mars Kerry’s visit to Italy

‘You created ISIS!’ Press conference scandal mars Kerry’s visit to Italy

US Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Italy was disrupted by a cry of protest at his joint press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, when a woman in the audience shouted, “it's you who created Daesh!" February 4 2016, 17:22 1 771 просмотрs

Wikileaks' Assange wins U.N. ruling on 'arbitrary detention'

Wikileaks' Assange wins U.N. ruling on 'arbitrary detention'

A United Nations panel has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been "arbitrarily detained", the BBC reported on Thursday. February 4 2016, 16:13 1 775 просмотрs

Shell confirms 10,000 job cuts and a steep profits fall

Shell confirms 10,000 job cuts and a steep profits fall

Royal Dutch Shell has confirmed it is cutting 10,000 jobs amid its steepest fall in annual profits for 13 years. February 4 2016, 12:00 1 753 просмотрs

Pussy Riot releases new protest song: 'prison is a weapon'

Pussy Riot releases new protest song: 'prison is a weapon'

Punk collective takes on the Kremlin, corruption and the criminal justice system in satirical video. February 3 2016, 17:45 2 333 просмотрs

You Can Buy a Czech Castle for $13,000

You Can Buy a Czech Castle for $13,000

The Libejovice chateau looks like something out of a 19th century romantic novel: an elegant, mustard-hued Renaissance palace with tall windows and elaborate balcony railings bearing the noble Schwarzenberg family's coat of arms. Natalia Makovik will sell it to you for less than the price of some Manhattan studio apartments. The catch: Restoring the place, a two-hour drive south of Prague, could cost 10 times the purchase price. “I look at a ruin, and I see an investment opportunity," says Makovik, founder ofVIP Castle, a real estate brokerage specializing in historic buildings. February 3 2016, 17:15 3 413 просмотрs

House passes bill again to restrict Obama lifting Iran sanctions

House passes bill again to restrict Obama lifting Iran sanctions

The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation on Tuesday that would restrict President Barack Obama's ability to lift sanctions under the international nuclear deal with Iran, nearly three weeks after a similar vote was canceled. February 3 2016, 12:34 1 495 просмотрs

Dallas County reports first U.S. case of Zika virus

Dallas County reports first U.S. case of Zika virus

The first U.S. case of the Zika virus has been contracted in Dallas County, local health officials said on Tuesday, adding there are no reports of the virus being locally transmitted by mosquitoes in the Texas county. February 3 2016, 10:10 1 598 просмотрs

BP reports biggest ever annual loss

BP reports biggest ever annual loss

BP (BP.L) slumped to its biggest annual loss last year and announced thousands more job cuts on Tuesday, showing that even one of the nimblest oil producers is struggling in the worst market downturn in over a decade. February 2 2016, 17:14 1 692 просмотрs

Cuba's Castro pays historic visit to France

Cuba's Castro pays historic visit to France

Cuban President Raul Castro on Monday paid a historic state visit to France, the first ever by a Cuban leader in two decades, with a view to reinforce bilateral ties, increase trade links, and discuss debt relief. February 2 2016, 16:07 1 707 просмотрs

Republican Cruz beats Trump in Iowa presidential race, Clinton holds slim lead

Republican Cruz beats Trump in Iowa presidential race, Clinton holds slim lead

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz beat billionaire Donald Trump in Iowa's Republican presidential nominating contest on Monday, upsetting the national front-runner in the race to be their party's White House nominee. February 2 2016, 10:20 1 570 просмотрs

Business Insider: Russia will control prices of oil in 2016

Business Insider: Russia will control prices of oil in 2016

The global oil situation continues to drag on. Powerhouse oil producers are still being squeezed financially by lower prices and some of the more unstable OPEC members have seen upticks in violence and political chaos. And in this environment, Russia increasingly looks like "the single biggest swing factor for oil prices in 2016," according to RBC Capital Markets' global head of commodity strategy Helima Croft. February 1 2016, 17:25 2 594 просмотрs

Scientists get 'gene editing' go-ahead

Scientists get 'gene editing' go-ahead

UK scientists have been given the go-ahead by the fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos. February 1 2016, 17:03 1 695 просмотрs

Chechnya's Kadyrov puts Putin critic Kasyanov in gunsights

Chechnya's Kadyrov puts Putin critic Kasyanov in gunsights

Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov has posted an Instagram video showing Russian opposition politician Mikhail Kasyanov in a sniper's crosshairs. February 1 2016, 16:29 1 612 просмотрs

Incredible Cloud Formation Named the ‘Hand of God’ Spotted Over Portuguese Island of Madeira

Incredible Cloud Formation Named the ‘Hand of God’ Spotted Over Portuguese Island of Madeira

An incredible cloud formation which appeared over the skies of Portugal has been dubbed the 'hand of God'. February 1 2016, 16:17 1 794 просмотрs

Norwegian Peace Research Institute Shortlists Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize

Norwegian Peace Research Institute Shortlists Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked classified documents shedding light on extensive US and UK government surveillance programs, will be the frontrunner for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, according to Peace Research Institute Oslo. February 1 2016, 15:50 1 609 просмотрs

Kiev Asks French TV Channel to Take Maidan Documentary Off the Air

Kiev Asks French TV Channel to Take Maidan Documentary Off the Air

Ukrainian dimplomats to France lamented that the new documentary “Les Masques de la Revolution" (The Masks of Revolution) about Maidan events in Ukraine misinterprets the facts and asked the French national broadcaster not to air it. February 1 2016, 11:52 2 767 просмотрs

Boko Haram Burns Kids Alive in Nigeria, 86 Dead: Officials

Boko Haram Burns Kids Alive in Nigeria, 86 Dead: Officials

A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria's homegrown Islamic extremists. February 1 2016, 10:15 1 531 просмотрs

Pakistan Charsadda: Deadly assault on university

Pakistan Charsadda: Deadly assault on university

A militant gun attack has caused carnage at a university in north-west Pakistan, with at least 19 people dead and 50 injured. January 20 2016, 15:31 1 700 просмотрs