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China, India, Pakistan boost nuclear arsenals, says report

China, India, Pakistan boost nuclear arsenals, says report

China, India, Pakistan increase their nuclear arsenal over the past year, a figure contradicted by the US and Russia, a think tank report says, adding that the arms race is all the more disturbing June 4 2013, 10:58 1 420 просмотрs

World newspapers mull paywalls for survival

World newspapers mull paywalls for survival

Global newspaper chiefs have some rare good news to share after years of slumping print sales and advertising revenues -- readers appear increasingly willing to pay for online news June 3 2013, 15:20 1 345 просмотрs

Turkey protests: Clashes rage in Istanbul's Besiktas

Turkey protests: Clashes rage in Istanbul's Besiktas

Turkish protesters have clashed with police in Istanbul's Besiktas district, in some of the worst violence since unrest erupted three days ago. June 3 2013, 10:28 1 230 просмотрs

Central Europe on alert for flooding

Central Europe on alert for flooding

Homes have been evacuated across southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland as rivers reach dangerously high levels. June 3 2013, 10:24 1 240 просмотрs

Clashes after Kyrgyzstan arrests dozens over gold protest

Clashes after Kyrgyzstan arrests dozens over gold protest

Clashes erupted Friday between Kyrgyzstan security forces and protestors after the arrest of dozens of demonstrators who seized an electricity station and cut off power to a Canadian-owned gold mine. May 31 2013, 14:13 1 300 просмотрs

Giant asteroid zooming by Earth on Friday has its own Moon

Giant asteroid zooming by Earth on Friday has its own Moon

A giant asteroid will zip past Earth on Friday at the relatively close space distance of 3.6 million miles (5.8 million km) and it's not alone. Astronomers studying the asteroid on Thursday noticed that it is bringing along a passenger - its own moon. May 31 2013, 11:09 1 479 просмотрs

Assad says Syria received S-300 systems

Assad says Syria received S-300 systems

Syria has received a shipment of Russian-made S-300 missile defense systems, Syrian President Bashar Assad revealed in an interview on Hezbollah TV. May 30 2013, 17:21 1 338 просмотрs

Lithuania economy minister quits over private flight to Kazakhstan

Lithuania economy minister quits over private flight to Kazakhstan

Lithuania's president says the economy minister has been dismissed over a scandal involving her use of a private jet during government business. May 30 2013, 13:46 1 436 просмотрs

Ukraine OKs Bid for Customs Union Observer Status

Ukraine OKs Bid for Customs Union Observer Status

The Ukrainian government on Wednesday approved a memorandum applying for observer status in the Customs Union, a Moscow-based trade bloc comprising Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said. May 30 2013, 11:42 1 234 просмотрs

Kyrgyzstan: Is wisdom and experience of Aksakals required?

Kyrgyzstan: Is wisdom and experience of Aksakals required?

The Ministry of Justice of Kyrgyzstan suggests humanization of criminal law and delegating minor offences cases to Aksakal courts for consideration. While the parliament is discussing the document, 24.kg news agency decided to ask citizens will such court be able to meet the acting judicial standards. May 29 2013, 16:34 2 551 просмотрs

Anti-gay marriage protesters clash with riot police in Paris

Anti-gay marriage protesters clash with riot police in Paris

Riot police have clashed with hundreds of troublemakers in Paris at the end of a largely peaceful march by tens of thousands of people opposed to France's new gay marriage law. May 29 2013, 11:57 1 365 просмотрs

Heatwave leaves over 500 dead in India since April

Heatwave leaves over 500 dead in India since April

Heat wave conditions, which have seen over 500 people losing their lives since April due to heatstroke, continued across India on Tuesday, an official said. May 29 2013, 11:23 1 478 просмотрs

Chinese hackers 'compromise' US weapons systems designs

Chinese hackers 'compromise' US weapons systems designs

Chinese hackers have accessed designs for more than two dozen US weapons systems, a US newspaper has reported. May 29 2013, 10:47 1 204 просмотрs

Minister: Iran to Link Railway System to Int'l Network

Minister: Iran to Link Railway System to Int'l Network

Iranian Minister of Road and Urbanization Ali Nikzad announced that the country plans to link its railway system to the international network in five points. May 28 2013, 13:59 1 391 просмотрs

EU lifts arms embargo on Syria rebels

EU lifts arms embargo on Syria rebels

European Union foreign ministers have agreed not to renew the union's arms embargo on the Syrian opposition. May 28 2013, 10:02 1 496 просмотрs

Woolwich murder: Three men released on bail

Woolwich murder: Three men released on bail

Three man arrested in south London on Saturday in connection with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby have been released on bail, Scotland Yard has said. May 27 2013, 11:19 1 351 просмотрs

Huge anti-gay marriage protest march in Paris

Huge anti-gay marriage protest march in Paris

Tens of thousands of people have rallied in Paris against a new French law allowing same-sex marriage. May 27 2013, 09:51 1 669 просмотрs

Bayern Munich's Arjen Robben nets winner against Borussia Dortmund

Bayern Munich's Arjen Robben nets winner against Borussia Dortmund

It was a night of outstanding drama, fully reaffirming all the eulogies about German football, and when it was all done Bayern Munich had won their fifth European Cup and we were reminded what a brutal business football can be when it comes to making losers of heroes. May 26 2013, 14:54 1 406 просмотрs

2 FBI agents involved in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's arrest "FALL" out of helicopter and die

2 FBI agents involved in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's arrest "FALL" out of helicopter and die

Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement. May 24 2013, 17:30 1 894 просмотрs

Earthquake hits Russia's Far East

Earthquake hits Russia's Far East

A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers (4,400 miles) west of the epicenter. May 24 2013, 12:42 3 190 просмотрs

Ex-Kyrgyz President Bakiev won't be extradited, Prosecutor General of Belarus

Ex-Kyrgyz President Bakiev won't be extradited, Prosecutor General of Belarus

Information that Belarus is negotiating the extradition of Kurmanbek Bakiyev to Kyrgyzstan is not true, told the Prosecutor General of Belarus Alexander Konyukov to RIA Novosti on Thursday in Minsk. May 24 2013, 11:08 1 493 просмотрs

Syria opposition leader suggests transition plan

Syria opposition leader suggests transition plan

The outgoing leader of Syria's main opposition coalition Moaz al-Khatib has put forward a detailed plan for the transition of power May 24 2013, 09:56 1 325 просмотрs

Wartime MI6 had secret plans for 'liquidation or kidnapping' of targets

Wartime MI6 had secret plans for 'liquidation or kidnapping' of targets

National Archives reveal plan to sow dissension among Soviet communists then kill Rommel and top Gestapos before D-Day May 23 2013, 15:58 1 679 просмотрs

World on course to run out of water, warns Ban Ki-moon

World on course to run out of water, warns Ban Ki-moon

Freshwater supply and water quality under pressure, warns UN secretary general on International Day of Biological Diversity May 23 2013, 14:43 1 850 просмотрs

UK, Woolwich attack: Killed man 'in armed forces'

UK, Woolwich attack: Killed man 'in armed forces'

A man killed in a suspected terrorist attack in south-east London was a member of the armed forces, senior Whitehall sources have confirmed. May 23 2013, 11:29 1 408 просмотрs