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Interpol's wanted list increased by 50 percent in 2011, to 75,000 names from 50,000 the previous year, Interpol chief Ronald Noble said on Thursday.
Members of the far right Serbian Radical Party have asked the Russian embassy in Belgrade to provide legal assistance for party leader Vojislav Seselj, who is on trial in The Hague for alleged war crimes, the Russian diplomatic service told RIA Novosti.
Tajik migrants working in Russia sent to $2.96 billion in remittances to their families in Tajikistan in 2011, over 30 percent more than the previous year, National Bank Deputy Chairman Malokhat Kholikzoda said on Thursday.
A U.S. court has issued a summons to the woman who adopted a seven-year-old Russian boy and later put him on a plane back to Moscow with a note saying that she didn't want him anymore.
Several discussion clubs aimed at “popularizing the ideas” of Russian premier and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin will be opened in early February in Armenia, The CIS Youth Union said on Thursday.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Thursday urged the West to think twice before introducing an oil embargo against his country over the situation around the Strait of Hormuz.
The political unrest that swept the Arab world last year, which became known as the “Arab spring”, has become the most significant event in the struggle for civil rights, comparable to the downfall of Soviet Union in 1991, the human right organization Freedom House said in a report released on Thursday.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said he may launch political reform following the country’s parliamentary elections this fall.
A native of Uzbekistan accused in the United States of threatening to kill President Barack Obama is to plead guilty, The Birmingham News reported Thursday.
A Russian government commission looking into the crash of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe says engineering flaws were the main cause of its failure, the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Valadimir Popovkin said on Thursday.
Britain has for the first time admitted it was spying when Russia’s state security service, the FSB, accused British diplomats of using a transceiver hidden inside a rock on a Moscow street.
Francesco Schettino, the captain of the sunken Costa Concordia cruise ship was at a restaurant with two women when the vessel hit the rocks, one of the ship’s passengers told Italy’s RaiTre television channel.
The Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights) aerial display team will perform a new program at the 2012 Bahrain Air Show and it will be the team’s first foreign performance in four years
A Pacific Fleet task force led by the Admiral Panteleyev destroyer docked at the Indonesian port of Surabaya on Thursday



