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A Russian-owned ship reportedly carrying ammunition to Syria was allowed to leave Cyprus after giving assurances it would switch course, the island nation’s officials said on Wednesday.
Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft will fall back to Earth between January 14 and 16, possibly some place in the Indian Ocean, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
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Italy’s budget deficit fell to a three-year low of 2.7 percent of GDP in the third quarter of 2011, the national statistics agency Istat reported on Wednesday.
Russia will fulfill a contract to deliver 21 helicopters to Afghanistan in the first half of the year, the Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service said on Wednesday.
The Turkmen parliament passed a new law on political parties after the former Soviet republic’s president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, moved to make it easier for other political forces to challenge the Turkmen Democratic Party’s monopolistic grip on power, national television said on Wednesday.
The North Korean authorities are to sentence anyone who has not participated in mourning sessions for leader Kim Jong-il to terms in labor camps, South Korea’s Daily NK website reported on Wednesday.
More than 400 people have been killed in Syria in just the two weeks since Arab League observers were deployed in the country in late December as part of a peace plan to end months of bloodshed there, United Nations political chief B. Lynn Pascoe said.
Moscow hotel room rates are the highest in Europe, Hotel.info online booking service said in a survey after comparing more than 210,000 facilities worldwide.
An Iranian scientist who died in a car bomb explosion in the capital Tehran on Wednesday was the deputy director of the country's largest uranium enrichment plant, according to Iran’s IRNA news agency.
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Mitt Romney took a crucial step closer to challenging Barack Obama in the 2012 U.S. presidential elections, winning the Republican primary elections in New Hampshire on Tuesday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
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Russia’s election authorities will allow 200 observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor March's presidential polls, in which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will seek a third stint in the Kremlin.
Three crew members of a South Korean fishing boat are thought to have died when their vessel caught fire in Antarctica early on Wednesday, officials said.
The United States hopes its new ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul will make serious efforts to further deepen bilateral relations, U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday at McFaul’s swearing-in ceremony.
Washington slammed on Tuesday the Iranian government’s decision to begin uranium enrichment operations at a facility near the city of Qom in the country’s north.
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Polish Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet will head to Russia on a three-day visit on Wednesday, Seremet’s spokesman Mateusz Martyniuk said.
The United States expects Russia to soon submit a revised text of a new draft resolution on Syria to the UN Security Council members, Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said.
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