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Snowden ‘considers’ returning to US

Snowden ‘considers’ returning to US

American whistleblower Edward Snowden is “considering” returning home to the USA under certain conditions, his lawyer told German news magazine Der Spiegel, rt.com reports. May 26 2014, 10:53 2 065 просмотрs

Poroshenko wins in landslide, vows to 'bring peace' to Ukraine

Poroshenko wins in landslide, vows to 'bring peace' to Ukraine

Ukrainians elected Petro Poroshenko to be their fifth president in a vote that was dubbed "the second independence referendum," because of voters' determination to cast their ballots despite a Russian-backed war against the nation, kyivpost.com reports. May 26 2014, 00:46 3 452 просмотрs

President Barack Obama makes surprise Afghan visit

President Barack Obama makes surprise Afghan visit

President Barack Obama has told US troops in Afghanistan that America's longest war will come to "a responsible end" at the end of 2014, bbc reports. May 25 2014, 22:59 2 303 просмотрs

Pope Francis begins Middle East tour

Pope Francis begins Middle East tour

After a joyous welcome from the gathered faithful, Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Saturday at a stadium in Jordan on the first leg of a Holy Land trip intended to promote a message of unity. cnn reports. May 24 2014, 19:09 2 579 просмотрs

Putin seeks better ties with West but blasts U.S. over Ukraine

Putin seeks better ties with West but blasts U.S. over Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he wanted better ties with the West but fiercely criticized U.S. policy on Ukraine and the global economy - and acknowledged that sanctions were hurting Russia, reuters.com reports. May 23 2014, 19:26 2 805 просмотрs

Putin says Russia will 'respect vote' in presidential ballot

Putin says Russia will 'respect vote' in presidential ballot

President Vladimir Putin announced Friday that Russia will recognize the outcome of Ukraine's presidential vote this weekend but voiced hope that Ukraine would halt its military operation against separatists in the east, cbc.ca reports. May 23 2014, 18:22 1 733 просмотрs

CICA adopts Shanghai declaration

CICA adopts Shanghai declaration

Participants of the 4th Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) have adopted a Shanghai declaration, tengrinews reports. The summit was held on May 20-21. Eleven heads of state, one government head, and ten heads of international organizations attended the summit, including Russian president Vladimir Putin, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. May 23 2014, 18:09 2 488 просмотрs

Poroshenko Goes For First-Round Win On May 25

Poroshenko Goes For First-Round Win On May 25

If the polls and the candidate’s confidence in the public mood are right, Petro Poroshenko may get elected in a landslide, skipping the need for a second-round runoff. But he will have to get more than 50 percent of the vote on May 25 on a ballot crowded with 21 names, none of whom are given much of a chance in this truncated campaign triggered by the Feb. 22 overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych, kyivpost.com reports. May 23 2014, 16:55 2 844 просмотрs

Chinese mining tycoon Liu Han sentenced to death

Chinese mining tycoon Liu Han sentenced to death

Former mining tycoon Liu Han and his brother have been sentenced to death, China's state media Xinhua reports. Both men have been found guilty of "mafia-style crime" and murder by a provincial court in Hubei, cnn reports. May 23 2014, 11:14 2 844 просмотрs

16 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donetsk Oblast; Luhansk Oblast declares martial law

16 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donetsk Oblast; Luhansk Oblast declares martial law

First Deputy Health Minister of Ukraine Ruslan Saliutin reported that sixteen Ukrainian servicemen were killed in a fight near the town of Volnovakha near Donetsk on Thursday, kyivpost.com reports. May 23 2014, 09:33 3 548 просмотрs

Moscow Court Obligates US, Library of Congress to Return Schneersohn Books to Russia

Moscow Court Obligates US, Library of Congress to Return Schneersohn Books to Russia

The Moscow Commercial Court has upheld a claim of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Russian State Library, ordering the United States return seven books from the collection of Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson to Russia, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom, ria .ru reports. May 23 2014, 09:19 1 541 просмотрs

Prince Charles 'should abdicate' after comparing Putin to Hitler, says MP

Prince Charles 'should abdicate' after comparing Putin to Hitler, says MP

Prince Charles is facing a call for his abdication and a frosty response in Moscow after reportedly comparing Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler over Russia's annexation of Crimea, theguardian.com reports. May 22 2014, 16:33 2 354 просмотрs

Is the Russia-China Gas Deal for Real—or Just Fumes?

Is the Russia-China Gas Deal for Real—or Just Fumes?

After negotiating for 15 years, China and Russia appear to have finally struck a deal to get into the natural gas business together and build a pipeline linking the two countries. Under the terms of the 30-year pact, China will secure the natural gas it needs to fuel its economy (and help clean its air), while Russia gets to diversify away from its testy relationship with Europe. Chances are that Russia won’t ever have to worry about being sanctioned by China, businessweek.com reports. May 22 2014, 15:37 2 720 просмотрs

British journalist Graham Phillips released by Ukraine forces

British journalist Graham Phillips released by Ukraine forces

A British journalist working for the TV channel Russia Today, who had not been seen since his detention by the Ukrainian government on Tuesday, has said he is "free and fine" after being released, theguardian reports. May 22 2014, 12:10 2 785 просмотрs

Urumqi attack kills 31 in China's Xinjiang region

Urumqi attack kills 31 in China's Xinjiang region

Attackers in China's restive Xinjiang region have crashed two cars into shoppers at a market, killing 31 people, Chinese media reports say, bbc reports. May 22 2014, 11:40 1 329 просмотрs

Thai army chief meets key political figures as martial law is imposed

Thai army chief meets key political figures as martial law is imposed

A day after martial law was imposed in protest-hit Thailand, army chief, General Prayruth Chan-Ocha, is hosting talks with some of the country’s key political figures, euronews.com reports. May 21 2014, 15:27 1 279 просмотрs

Pele Concerned About Protests Might Affect World Cup

Pele Concerned About Protests Might Affect World Cup

Selecao legend Pele has expressed his concerns ahead of next month’s World Cup in his native Brazil, kickoff.com reports. May 21 2014, 12:21 2 392 просмотрs

India's right-wing BJP wins in landslide

India's right-wing BJP wins in landslide

The world’s largest democracy has voted in unprecedented numbers for dramatic change, theglobemail.com reports. May 21 2014, 09:47 2 374 просмотрs

Michigan Suburb Tickets People For Swearing, Fine Is $200

Michigan Suburb Tickets People For Swearing, Fine Is $200

Police in downtown Brighton are cracking down on disorderly conduct by issuing tickets to people who swear or cause problems following complaints about the behavior of teenagers and young adults in the area, detroit.cbslocal.com reports. May 20 2014, 17:25 1 148 просмотрs

“We’ll burn you and hang the director” – separatists ready for elections in Donetsk and Artemovsk

“We’ll burn you and hang the director” – separatists ready for elections in Donetsk and Artemovsk

In Artemovsk, Donetsk region terrorists threatened to burn one of the schools and hang its director if the poling station in the building will open for presidential elections. The employees of the institution reported this to OstroV, inforesist.org reports. May 20 2014, 16:26 1 179 просмотрs

Credit Suisse Pleads Guilty in Three-Year U.S. Tax Probe

Credit Suisse Pleads Guilty in Three-Year U.S. Tax Probe

Credit Suisse AG (CSGN) agreed to pay $2.6 billion in penalties and pleaded guilty to helping Americans cheat on their taxes, making it the first global bank in a decade to admit to a crime in a U.S. courtroom, bloomberg.com reports. May 20 2014, 11:59 2 478 просмотрs

China denounces US cyber-theft charges

China denounces US cyber-theft charges

China has denounced charges brought by the US against five army officers accused of economic cyber-espionage, bbc reports. May 20 2014, 11:39 1 136 просмотрs

Russia-China gas deal a nightmare for Ukraine and EU

Russia-China gas deal a nightmare for Ukraine and EU

The Russia-China gas deal is a nightmare for the Ukraine and European Union, because now Russia does not need the European market to sell its gas to avoid a budget deficit, eturbonews.com reports. May 20 2014, 10:23 3 400 просмотрs

Russia withdrawing troops from Ukrainian border, NATO denies the fact

Russia withdrawing troops from Ukrainian border, NATO denies the fact

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu to send troops back to bases from drills they were having in the southwestern regions of Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk, on the border with Ukraine. In the same statement, Moscow called on Kiev to cease violence in southeastern Ukraine, immediately, azh.kz reports citing Deutsche Welle. May 19 2014, 18:36 2 186 просмотрs

Mali sends troops to retake town from Tuareg separatists

Mali sends troops to retake town from Tuareg separatists

Mali sent in troops on Sunday to retake Kidal from Tuareg separatists after six government workers and two civilians were murdered, according to the United Nations, during an attack on the regional governor's office, reuters.com reports. May 19 2014, 17:54 1 219 просмотрs