LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Israel and Syria agreed this week to hold new rounds of indirect peace talks mediated by Turkey in July, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. Israel and Syria concluded a second round of indirect peace talks on Monday and agreed to continue the negotiations, though not face-to-face …

GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli air strikes killed six Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical workers said, amid Egyptian efforts to broker a truce between Israel and militant groups in the Hamas-controlled territory. The Islamic Jihad militant group said five of its members were killed when a missile …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Egyptian-mediated truce that appears likely between Israel and Hamas will begin with only a gradual and partial easing of an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, officials said on Tuesday. “If Hamas keeps the ceasefire, we can gradually deliver more goods and supplies,” an Israeli official …

PRISTINA (Reuters) – The United Nations is expected to name Italian diplomat Lamberto Zannier this week as the new head of its Kosovo mission, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday. Zannier takes over from German diplomat Joachim Ruecker as part of a planned “reconfiguration” of the mission after Kosovo …

GENEVA (Reuters) – The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan drove up the number of world refugees for a second straight year in 2007, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said there were 11.4 million refugees under its responsibility at the end of 2007, …

KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) – Suspected pro-Taliban militants shot and killed four Shi’ite Muslims in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday in what appeared to be the second deadly sectarian attack in two days. Pakistan has a bloody history of violence between militants from the majority Sunni community and minority Shi’ites and a …

Russian invaders reported that June 12 in Amur Province (Oblast) of the Far Eastern Republic (occupied by Russia) train number 326 (the Khabarovsk-Nerungri service) derailed on the railroad span between Hilitkan and Shimanovsk. 13 cars of the passenger train were turned over (photo).  

Conference under the name of New Political Nationalism was held in Cosmos Hotel in Moscow. According to the idea of its organizers, the conference is supposed to become the first step on the way of forming a large political party of “nationalistic trend”.

Russia is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for various forms of exploitation. This is stated in the US State Department’s human-trafficking report for 2008.

Independent Gazette (Nezavisimaya Gazeta) reported that Russian State Duma (parliament) has drafted a bill that will make a tougher law on fight against extremism. The bill will abrogate the regulations, in accordance to which two warnings received by social organizations, mass media or ordinary citizens are annulled in one year. …