For censorship considerations, Russian media have concealed from their readers the fact that Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves left not only the conference room in protest of the slander against Estonia voiced at the so-called “Fifth World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples”, but he also left Russia and returned to Tallinn …
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British ‘super-spy’ in coma amid fears of poisoning by Russian assassin
Britain’s leading spy was today fighting for his life after he mysteriously fell into a coma. Alex Allan, the head of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, was found unconscious at his west London home on Monday and taken to hospital.
Read More »Case of gas attack in Nord Ost Moscow theater seizure gets classified
The Strasbourg Court has classified the case about the events that happened in the fall of 2002 in the theatrical center in Moscow. Moscow-based RIA-Novosti news agency reported that this information came from the attorney of the victims of the theater seizure, Igor Trunov. Â “From the negotiations with the …
Read More »Russia rebuffs U.S. over Georgia mediation
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will reject a call by the United States for international mediators to take a bigger role in defusing a row with Georgia, Interfax news agency quoted a Russian diplomatic source as saying on Friday.
Read More »Syrian, Lebanese presidents to meet in Paris
PARIS (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman will meet in Paris on Saturday ahead of a summit of EU and Mediterranean leaders, the French president’s office said on Friday.
Read More »TIMELINE: Political breakthrough in Lebanon
(Reuters) – Lebanese leaders agreed on a unity government on Friday that gave Hezbollah and its allies a blocking minority as agreed under a deal that ended a paralyzing political conflict in the country. Here is a chronology of Lebanon in the last 20 months.
Read More »Lebanon forms unity government: official
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon formed on Friday a unity government that gave Hezbollah and its allies effective veto power as agreed under a deal that ended a political crisis in the country.
Read More »U.S. air strike kills 47 civilians: official
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A U.S. coalition force air strike on Sunday killed 47 civilians, including 39 women and children, in the eastern province of Nangarhar, an Afghan official said on Friday.
Read More »Nine Pakistanis hurt in fire from Afghanistan
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Seven Pakistani soldiers and two civilians have been wounded by firing from inside Afghanistan in the latest incident along the border between the uneasy U.S. allies.
Read More »FACTBOX: Military and civilian deaths in Iraq
(Reuters) – A U.S. soldier was killed on Wednesday after his vehicle was struck by a grenade in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military reported on Thursday. Another U.S. soldier was killed on July 8 in Baghdad when his patrol was struck by an improvised …
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