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Falklands vote to remain part of Britain

Falklands vote to remain part of Britain

Falklanders have voted to remain a British Overseas Territory, following months of political tensions between Britain and Argentina over the fate of the islands. Three decades ago the two nations fought a short war over the disputed territory. March 12 2013, 14:41 1 492 просмотрs

U.S. expels 2 Venezuelan diplomats

U.S. expels 2 Venezuelan diplomats

Diplomatic tensions between the United States and Venezuela showed no signs of slowing Monday as the State Department announced that two Venezuelan diplomats had been expelled, reports Kazinform. March 12 2013, 11:32 1 488 просмотрs

Thousands of ethnic Hungarians march for autonomy in Romania

Thousands of ethnic Hungarians march for autonomy in Romania

Around five thousand ethnic Hungarians rallied Sunday in the central Romanian city of Targu Mures to call for autonomy for the Szeklers' Land, home to most of their minority. March 11 2013, 17:48 1 531 просмотрs

Iranian President Under Fire For Hugging Chavez's Mother

Iranian President Under Fire For Hugging Chavez's Mother

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is in trouble for embracing the mother of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died last week following a battle with cancer. March 11 2013, 10:39 1 870 просмотрs

Falklands holds vote over UK status

Falklands holds vote over UK status

The population of the Falkland Islands is going to the polls on Sunday and Monday in a referendum on whether to remain a British Overseas Territory. March 11 2013, 10:15 1 731 просмотрs

North Korea cancels non-aggression pact with South

North Korea cancels non-aggression pact with South

North Korea is cancelling a hotline and a non-aggression pact with South Korea and reiterating past threats in anger over a UN Security Council vote to impose more sanctions on the North for its third nuclear test. March 8 2013, 13:57 1 565 просмотрs

U.S. to send delegation to Chavez funeral

U.S. to send delegation to Chavez funeral

The Obama administration Wednesday offered Venezuela a chance to rebuild its relationship with the United States after the death of President Hugo Chavez, who had long railed against the “Yankee empire.” March 7 2013, 13:03 1 548 просмотрs

Soviet Soldier, Missing for 33 Years, Found in Afghanistan

Soviet Soldier, Missing for 33 Years, Found in Afghanistan

His real name is Bakhretdin Khakimov and he is a Soviet soldier who has been missing in action since the first months of a nine-year-long bloody war that began when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in late 1979. March 7 2013, 12:57 2 389 просмотрs

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Dies From Cancer at 58

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Dies From Cancer at 58

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a prolonged battle with cancer, Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced on national television. March 6 2013, 09:32 1 629 просмотрs

Moscow Mayor says no to more mosques in the city

Moscow Mayor says no to more mosques in the city

“It has turned out that the praying Muslims are not at all Russian citizens and they are not Moscow residents. They are labor migrants. There are only 10 percent of Moscow residents among them and building mosques for everyone who wants it – I think this will be over the top,” Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said March 5 2013, 10:44 1 607 просмотрs

Egypt’s finance ministry proposes renting out pyramids

Egypt’s finance ministry proposes renting out pyramids

Renting out Egypt's iconic landmarks, including the Giza Pyramids, to international clients could rake in up to $150 billion over five years, according to a proposal aimed at boosting the economy submitted to the country's antiquities ministry. March 4 2013, 15:41 1 610 просмотрs

U.S. baby's HIV infection cured through very early treatment

U.S. baby's HIV infection cured through very early treatment

A baby girl in Mississippi who was born with HIV has been cured after very early treatment with standard HIV drugs, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday, in a potentially ground-breaking case that could offer insights on how to eradicate HIV infection in its youngest victims. March 4 2013, 14:35 1 637 просмотрs

West to send Syrian rebels aid, not arms

West to send Syrian rebels aid, not arms

Western powers pledged aid for Syrian rebels on Thursday but stopped short of offering them weapons, disappointing opponents of President Bashar al-Assad clamoring for more arms. March 4 2013, 11:28 1 613 просмотрs

Kim Jong-un wants to talk basketball with Barack Obama

Kim Jong-un wants to talk basketball with Barack Obama

North Korea’s young leader has riled the US with recent nuclear tests, but Kim Jong-un doesn’t really want war with the superpower, just a call from President Barack Obama to chat about their shared love of basketball, according to unlikely diplomat Dennis Rodman, the ex-NBA star just back from an improbable visit to the reclusive communist country. March 4 2013, 11:17 1 612 просмотрs

U.S. hopes "peaceful political transition" in Syria: Kerry

U.S. hopes "peaceful political transition" in Syria: Kerry

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said here in Turkey's capital of Ankara on Friday that the United States hopes a "peaceful political transition" in Syria. March 2 2013, 14:54 1 659 просмотрs

Visa-free regime between RF, EU would promote business, tourism

Visa-free regime between RF, EU would promote business, tourism

Abolition of visas between Russia and the European Union would promote the development of business, tourism and youth exchanges, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the joint press conference with French President Francois Hollande. March 1 2013, 15:14 1 935 просмотрs

Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project

Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project

Larry Page and Sergey Brin have long had the dream of a hands-free, mobile Google, where search was a seamless process as you moved around the world. As the years progressed the vision did, too, expanding beyond search to persistent connections with the people in your lives. March 1 2013, 11:20 1 716 просмотрs

Van Cliburn, American classical pianist and Cold War hero, dies at 78

Van Cliburn, American classical pianist and Cold War hero, dies at 78

American pianist Van Cliburn, who awed Russian audiences with his exquisite Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff concertos and won fame and fortune back home, died on Wednesday at the age of 78. February 28 2013, 16:54 1 826 просмотрs

Hopeful exchange: Talks on Iran's nuclear program take a new tone

Hopeful exchange: Talks on Iran's nuclear program take a new tone

Two days of talks in Kazakhstan between Iran and the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany produced no concrete results on the Iran nuclear issue, but did permit both sides to put potentially useful proposals on the table which neither side pushed back. February 28 2013, 10:48 1 607 просмотрs

Iran Says It Won’t Halt Uranium Work

Iran Says It Won’t Halt Uranium Work

Iran’s nuclear talks are over, the official rep of the Iran delegation said to RIA Novosti. Two-day negotiations of “G-6” international intermediaries (the USA, Great Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany) with Tehran on the Iranian nuclear program in Almaty “were very useful”, said Sergey Ryabkov, the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to RIA Novosti news agency, following the results of the Almaty meeting. February 27 2013, 15:04 1 347 просмотрs

First Day of Iran Nuclear Talks Ends With No Breakthrough

First Day of Iran Nuclear Talks Ends With No Breakthrough

Participants of the first day of closed talks between Iran and a group of six nations held on Tuesday in the Kazakh city of Almaty were cautious in evaluating the results of the meeting. February 27 2013, 11:01 1 483 просмотрs

Trial begins for 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Trial begins for 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill

The long-awaited trial for the worst oil spill in U.S. history began Monday, with U.S. federal prosecutors, businesses and individuals mostly blaming BP for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. February 26 2013, 10:57 1 464 просмотрs

Germany presses Turkey for progress in lifting embargo on Cyprus

Germany presses Turkey for progress in lifting embargo on Cyprus

Visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday pressed Ankara to open its ports and airports to ships and planes from Cyprus, while expressing her support for reviving the stalled accession talks between Turkey and the EU. February 26 2013, 10:49 1 374 просмотрs

Gerard Depardieu Visits Chechnya Leader

Gerard Depardieu Visits Chechnya Leader

French actor Gerard Depardieu has taken to the dancefloor to celebrate his new Russian citizenship with Chechnya's strongman president Ramzan Kadyrov. February 26 2013, 10:17 2 381 просмотрs

Castro to stand down in 2018

Castro to stand down in 2018

Rising star named as Raul's likely successor as president. Cuban President Raul Castro announced he will step down after his second term ends in 2018,with the new parliament naming a 52-year-old rising star to become his first vice-president andmost visible successor. February 26 2013, 09:34 1 419 просмотрs