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Irkutsk (Russia), Jan 12 (RIA Novosti) A Russian soldier in east Siberia’s Irkutsk region threatened to blow up a grocery store as he had no money to pay for an alcoholic beverage, police said.
According to a police spokesman, the detained military serviceman is a private first class from a detachment in Russia’s North Caucasus republic [...]
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Bangkok, Jan 10 (RIA Novosti) New charges have been filed against the crew of an arms-laden cargo plane seized in Bangkok in mid-December, the Bangkok Post newspaper has said citing police sources.
Officials Saturday said the weapons included portable anti-aircraft missile systems and spare parts for ground-to-air missiles shipped from North Korea to an unknown destination.
The [...]
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Makhachkala, Jan 6 (RIA Novosti) The number of police killed in a suicide bomb attack in Dagestan, Russia’s north Caucasus republic, has risen to six, the regional emergency medicine centre said Wednesday.
‘One person brought from the blast scene died in the hospital. The number of victims has risen to six. The number of those [...]
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Moscow, Jan 5 (RIA Novosti) Police in Russia’s north Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have prevented a major terrorist attack after discovering a powerful bomb planted near a busy road, an official said Tuesday.
A 40-litre barrel stuffed with explosives was found some two metres away from the Baksan-Azau highway. It was taken to a safe place [...]
Dushanbe, Jan 3 (RIA Novosti) Some 20,000 people were left homeless by an earthquake which hit Tajikistan’s mountainous Gorno-Badakhshan province, an official said.
The earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale took place Saturday and affected two locations in the province’s Vanchsky district in Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains, a spokesman of the local administration said.
‘Several dozens houses [...]
Moscow, Dec 30 (RIA Novosti) The European Union (EU) Tuesday condemned the execution by China of a British man said to be suffering from a mental illness on drug-smuggling charges.
Akmal Shaikh, 53, was put to death by lethal injection earlier on Tuesday, becoming the first Western European to be executed in China in 50 years. [...]
Moscow, Dec 30 (RIA Novosti) The League of Arab States has called on Switzerland to reconsider its decision on banning the construction of new minarets in the country.
‘We wish the people of Switzerland would reconsider this mistaken decision, which risks fuelling racism in Europe,’ the Arab League’s parliament said in a statement Tuesday.
Switzerland voted at [...]
Moscow, Dec 28 (RIA Novosti) Three thieves stole 250 boxes of chewing gum estimated to cost 1.7 million roubles ($57,500) from a truck in southern Russia, police said Monday.
The incident took place in southern Russia’s Stavropol Territory.
‘Three unidentified assailants entered a parking lot, threatened the watchman with bodily harm, and tied him up. Then they [...]
Kozmino (Russia), Dec 28 (RIA Novosti) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who officially launched the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline Monday, said it was a project of strategic importance for Russia.
During his visit to the region, the Russian premier took part in the official ceremony of pumping the first batch of Siberian oil into [...]
Moscow, Dec 28 (RIA Novosti) A dog infected with rabies had bitten dozens of people in southeastern Moscow before being caught, authorities said.
A number of media reports had said that a dog showing symptoms of rabies had attacked and bitten at least 50 people in the neighbouring district of Vykhino.
‘The dog has been caught and [...]
Beijing, Dec 25 (RIA Novosti) A Chinese man has been arrested on charges of bigamy after his two wives discovered each other on a social networking site, a media report said.
The Mexican national of Chinese origin, identified as Chang, was arrested last week after one of the wives added her husband’s ‘buddies’, including the other [...]
Moscow, Dec 25 (RIA Novosti) The toll in the Dec 5 deadly blaze at a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm has risen to 152, the regional emergencies service said in a statement Friday.
‘On Thursday, Dec 24, two women died in Moscow hospitals,’ the statement said.
A total of 74 people remain in hospitals. Doctors [...]
Moscow, Dec 23 (RIA Novosti) A new Russian nuclear-powered multipurpose attack submarine should enter service by late 2010, its developer said Wednesday.
A spokesman for the Malakhit design bureau said dockside tests on the Severodvinsk, a Project 885 Yasen (Graney) class submarine, would start later this month and be completed some time next year.
Construction of [...]
Washington, Dec 23 (RIA Novosti) About 40 people were injured as an American Airlines plane split into two after overshooting a runway in the airport of Kingston, Jamaica, local media said Wednesday.
No fatalities were reported.
‘The plane crashed and broke almost in front of me,’ the Jamaica Observer quoted a passenger who was seated at the [...]
Washington, Dec 22 (RIA Novosti) US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle have got vaccinated for the A/H1N1 virus.
‘People need to understand that this vaccine is safe,’ Obama was quoted as saying on the official White House website.
‘Michelle and I just got the shots ourselves… we wanted to make sure nationwide that children [...]
Gaza, Dec 21 (RIA Novosti) West Bank authorities have indefinitely postponed the Miss Palestine-2009 beauty pageant.
The event was scheduled to take place Dec 26 in the West Bank, controlled by the moderate Fatah movement. Its goal was to show a different, non-political face of the region, the authorities in Ramallah have said in a statement.
Officials [...]
Warsaw, Dec 21 (RIA Novosti) An iron sign stolen from the entrance to the Nazi-era Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland has been found, a police spokesperson said Monday.
The infamous – Arbeit macht frei – sign was found in a small town in northern Poland. It was sawn in three parts, each containing one word. Police [...]
Baikonur (Kazakhstan), Dec 21 (RIA Novosti) The Soyuz spacecraft, carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), was launched here in the early hours of Monday.
The TMA-17 spacecraft was launched at 00:52 hrs from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan and it separated from the Soyuz-FG booster on schedule.
It is scheduled to dock with [...]
Baghdad, Dec 20 (RIA Novosti) Iranian troops have partially withdrawn from an oil well in a disputed oilfield in southern Iraq, an official said Sunday.
A small group of Iranian soldiers took control of the oil well in a remote area along the two countries’ border last week. Iraq claims that the oil well is part [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (RIA Novosti) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Copenhagen, where he arrived Thursday in order to take part in the UN climate change conference.
The Russian president told Saad Hariri he hoped they could discuss ‘not only climate-related issues, but also issues of… bilateral relations’ during their stay [...]
Rio De Janeiro, Dec 17 (RIA Novosti) Brazilian doctors have found some 50 needles in the body of a two-year-old boy that were allegedly inserted during a black magic ritual, media reports said.
The child, from the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, was taken to a hospital by his mother, who said he had vomited and [...]
Moscow, Dec 17 (RIA Novosti) The US has slowed down talks on a nuclear arms reduction deal with Russia in the last few days, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.
Asked to comment on media reports that a new landmark pact to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expired Dec 5, is unlikely to [...]
Moscow, Dec 16 (RIA Novosti) NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday the Western military bloc is seeking greater Russian assistance for international operations in Afghanistan.
Speaking to reporters after talks with President Dmitry Medvedev, Rasmussen said he was inviting Russia to step up its assistance in Afghanistan, including by supplying helicopters, spare parts and [...]
Moscow, Dec 16 (RIA Novosti) Yegor Gaidar, former Russian prime minister and one of the leading architects of free market reforms in post-Soviet Russia, has died at the age of 53, his aide said Wednesday.
‘Yegor Gaidar has died, I cannot currently give any more details,’ Gennady Volkov said.
Gaidar served as prime minister in the second [...]
Bangkok, Dec 16 (RIA Novosti) The Kazakh and Belarusian crew of a plane caught transporting arms from North Korea may face the death penalty, a Thai paper said Wednesday, citing the police.
The Il-76 cargo plane, carrying about 40 tonnes of weaponry, was seized after landing for refuelling at Bangkok’s Don Muang airport Dec 12. Officials [...]
Chelyabinsk (Russia), Dec 13 (RIA Novosti) A private plane crashed in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, killing all eight people on board, the regional emergencies center said Sunday.
The SM-92T plane crashed Sunday morning near the town of Korkino some 12 km from the regional center of Chelyabinsk.
‘There were eight people aboard the plane – one pilot and [...]
Moscow, Dec 10 (RIA Novosti) Ukraine will deliver a variety of military equipment to Iraq under a recent deal worth an estimated $2.4 billion, a Russian newspaper has reported.
According to the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily, the deal between the state arms exporter UkrSpetsExport and the Iraqi defence ministry is the largest in Ukraine’s history and could [...]
Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), Dec 10 (RIA Novosti) The toll in Saturday’s nightclub fire in the Russian Urals city of Perm has reached 128, authorities said Thursday.
‘The number of fire victims has reached 128. In addition, 103 people remain in hospitals… and another five are receiving out-patient treatment,’ the regional emergency authorities said.
The fire engulfed the [...]
Riga, Dec 10 (RIA Novosti) Latvia is concerned over Russia’s plans to buy a French warship, the Baltic country’s defence ministry said.
‘Senior defence ministry officials have already warned that if Russia buys the vessel and deploys it in the Baltic Sea, Latvia may have to review its current defence strategy in the face of a [...]
Melbourne, Dec 9 (ANI): A Russian chemistry student is said to have been killed by what is believed to be an exploding chewing gum.
According to Russian news agency Ria Novosti, the 25-year-old chemistry student was found dead with his jaw blown off after he was working on a computer at his parents’ house in the [...]
