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Russia resumes gas supply to Ukraine from today

Russia resumes gas supply to Ukraine from today

Russia has resumed gas supply to Ukraine from today, said the Ukrtransgaz spokesman Maxim Belyavsky. December 10 2014, 15:56 2 261 просмотрs

Treaty on Armenia's accession to Eurasian Economic Union ratified by State Duma

Treaty on Armenia's accession to Eurasian Economic Union ratified by State Duma

Russian lawmakers voted unanimously. The lower house of Russia's parliament (the State Duma) has ratified the treaty on Armenia's joining the Eurasian Economic Union. December 10 2014, 15:45 2 670 просмотрs

Record deaths in 2014 as migrants try to cross the Mediterranean

Record deaths in 2014 as migrants try to cross the Mediterranean

It is the deadliest route for people fleeing in search of a better life. December 10 2014, 15:20 1 359 просмотрs

Russia's Usmanov to give back Watson's auctioned Nobel medal

Russia's Usmanov to give back Watson's auctioned Nobel medal

Russia's richest man has revealed that he bought US scientist James Watson's Nobel Prize gold medal, and intends to return it to him. December 10 2014, 10:59 2 853 просмотрs

US set to publish CIA 'torture' report

US set to publish CIA 'torture' report

Security stepped up at US facilities around the world ahead of report detailing harsh CIA interrogation techniques. December 9 2014, 17:52 2 013 просмотрs

Indian PM Modi Wins Reader Poll for TIME Person of the Year

Indian PM Modi Wins Reader Poll for TIME Person of the Year

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who entered office this year on the promise of reviving the country’s economy, is the winner of this year’s reader poll for TIME Person of the Year, time.com reports. December 9 2014, 12:41 1 932 просмотрs

French politician to Merkel: 'Shut your trap'

French politician to Merkel: 'Shut your trap'

A French politician has launched a verbal assault on Angela Merkel after the German leader called for more budget tightening in France and Italy. German finance minister Schäuble attempted to strike a conciliatory tone. December 9 2014, 10:32 1 350 просмотрs

Oil drops $2 to five-year low on oversupply

Oil drops $2 to five-year low on oversupply

Brent and U.S. crude oil each fell more than $2 a barrel on Monday to a new five-year low amid a rising number of predictions that oversupply would extend well into 2015. December 9 2014, 10:11 2 197 просмотрs

NATO Formally Ends Afghanistan Mission: US Defense Department

NATO Formally Ends Afghanistan Mission: US Defense Department

The US Department of Defense has announced that NATO's International Security Assistance Force Joint Command mission in Afghanistan has officially ended. December 9 2014, 10:08 2 274 просмотрs

Mexico Grieves After Remains of 1 of 43 Missing Students are Identified

Mexico Grieves After Remains of 1 of 43 Missing Students are Identified

Three days of mourning have been announced in Mexico as the remains of one of the 43 students who have disappeared in the Mexican state have been identified. December 8 2014, 15:16 1 585 просмотрs

Former KGB agent claims that Anna Chapman was ordered to seduce Edward Snowden

Former KGB agent claims that Anna Chapman was ordered to seduce Edward Snowden

A former KGB agent has said that former Russian spy and celebrity Anna Chapman was ordered by the Russian intelligence service to propose marriage to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to trap him in Russia, British tabloids have revealed. December 8 2014, 15:01 3 470 просмотрs

Jordan king says war against Islamic State is WWIII

Jordan king says war against Islamic State is WWIII

Jordan's king Abdullah II described the fight against Islamic State as akin to a third world war last week. December 8 2014, 11:17 2 754 просмотрs

Syria: Israeli warplanes strike targets in Dimas, Damascus

Syria: Israeli warplanes strike targets in Dimas, Damascus

Planes believed to be Israeli struck inside Syria on Sunday, the Syrian government and an opposition group said, but the two entities differed over whether the targets belonged to the Syrian military. December 8 2014, 11:08 1 922 просмотрs

Protests over Garner's death turn violent in Berkeley

Protests over Garner's death turn violent in Berkeley

Peaceful protests over the chokehold death of Eric Garner took a violent turn in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, when several masked protesters smashed store windows and hurled objects atpolice officers who used smoke and teargas to disperse the crowd, reuters.com reports. December 8 2014, 00:27 1 142 просмотрs

Vnukovo airport engineer to remain in pre-trial detention over Total plane crash

Vnukovo airport engineer to remain in pre-trial detention over Total plane crash

The Moscow City Court on Friday upheld the detention of Vnukovo airport engineer Vladimir Ledenev charged in the criminal case over Total CEO Cristophe de Margerie’s death, RAPSI reports from the courtroom. December 5 2014, 15:54 2 241 просмотрs

Jehovah’s Witnesses website, books declared “extremist” in Russia

Jehovah’s Witnesses website, books declared “extremist” in Russia

The Russian Supreme Court has ruled that the website of the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses is extremist. December 5 2014, 15:02 2 599 просмотрs

Ukraine president announces new ceasefire

Ukraine president announces new ceasefire

The Ukrainian president has announced a new ceasefire to begin on December 9. The so-called ‘day of silence’ in eastern Ukraine aims to secure a previous truce agreed in Minsk in September which only marginally reduced the fighting. December 5 2014, 11:56 1 399 просмотрs

Saipem Notified of Marine Activity Halt Following South Stream Termination

Saipem Notified of Marine Activity Halt Following South Stream Termination

Saipem, a subsidiary of Italian energy company Eni has announced that it had been officially notified of contract termination from South Stream Transport BV. December 5 2014, 09:32 2 346 просмотрs

Ice and winds cause havoc in east and central Europe

Ice and winds cause havoc in east and central Europe

Cold weather has been causing havoc in east and central Europe. In Serbia emergency workers “risked their lives”, according to the electrical grid company EMS, to mend power cables which had been brought down by high winds and ice up to 20 centimetres thick, euronews reports. December 4 2014, 17:04 1 464 просмотрs

President Putin calls for Russians to be self-reliant

President Putin calls for Russians to be self-reliant

December 4 2014, 16:30 2 481 просмотрs

19 Fishermen From Sunken South Korean Trawler Found Dead in Bering Sea

19 Fishermen From Sunken South Korean Trawler Found Dead in Bering Sea

The bodies of another three crew members of the South Korean fishing trawler Oryong 501, which sank in the Bering Sea on Monday, were found Thursday, a senior navy official told RIA Novosti on Thursday. December 4 2014, 15:22 2 152 просмотрs

Hong Kong Occupy Central founders surrender

Hong Kong Occupy Central founders surrender

The three co-founders of the pro-democracy Occupy Central movement which has become Hong Kong's biggest civic disobedience campaign turned themselves in to the police on Wednesday. December 3 2014, 17:47 1 213 просмотрs

Cairo court dismissed case against ex-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak

Cairo court dismissed case against ex-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak

A Cairo court has dismissed the case against former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The reasons for this are obvious, reports dw.de. December 3 2014, 16:57 1 310 просмотрs

Corruption a "problem for all," latest global index shows

Corruption a "problem for all," latest global index shows

No country in the world has managed to achieve a perfect score of 100 in the 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index. The study by Transparency International urges failing states to adopt radical anti-corruption measures. December 3 2014, 16:49 2 608 просмотрs

Iraq Says Arrested Woman Is Not The Wife of ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi

Iraq Says Arrested Woman Is Not The Wife of ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi

An Iraqi official on Wednesday denied that a woman detained in Lebanon is a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State group. December 3 2014, 15:05 2 196 просмотрs