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* The United Nations Security Council recommended to the General Assembly to reelect Ban Ki-moon to a second term as Secretary General of the United Nations
* One police officer was killed and over 20 others wounded in the western Syrian city of Homs after unidentified armed assailants attacked them, Syrian state television reported
* German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a new financial assistance program for Greece
* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he is ready to close the country's borders if the poor economic situation in the country descends into full-scale crisis
RUSSIA
* Russia and France signed on Friday a $1.7 billion (1.2 bln euro) contract on two French-built Mistral class amphibious assault ships for the Russian Navy
* Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former boss of Yukos oil company convicted of embezzlement and tax fraud, was delivered to prison colony number seven near the town of Segezha in Russia's northwestern Karelia region, a source in the penal system administration said
* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has proposed expanding the borders of the Russian capital to create a new "metropolitan federal district"
BUSINESS
* Russian gas giant Gazprom has made the decision to sell 16.7 percent of Gazprombank, one of the top five banks in Russia, as soon as this year
* Russia will make it possible for investors and businessmen with businesses in Russia to get long-term visas, President Medvedev said
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Russian experts are developing robots designed to minimize casualties in terrorist attacks and neutralize terrorists, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
The quiet Eurocopter EC130-T2 and the flying “predator" Mi-35M helicopters have been unveiled at the International Helicopter Industry Exhibition HeliRussia 2013. Watch this RIA Novosti video to see what these machines are capable of.
Russia’s decision to publicly identify a purported top US spy in the country is an “unprecedented” move in relations between Moscow and Washington going back back to the Soviet era with no clear indication of how the United States will react, former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers and security experts told RIA Novosti on Friday.
A car journey across Russia by former adult video star Sasha Grey ended after a Russian-made Lada Kalina she was driving broke down three days after the start.
The failure of the Islamist political parties who came to power in the dramatic events of the Arab Spring would allow the military to reenter the political arena. Political Islam was successful in the opposition, but it could fail in power, as the negative experience of Egypt and Iraq have shown.
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