Over 1,000 inmates, incl Al-Qaeda suspects, escape Yemeni prison

Reuters / Khaled Abdullah Around 1,200 prisoners, including some Al-Qaeda suspects, managed to stage one of the biggest jailbreaks in years in Yemen’s south-eastern town of Taiz, after violence broke out and guards abandoned their posts, according to officials. “Groups of Al-Qaeda supporters ... today attacked the central prison in...

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Kremlin Critic Khodorkovsky Named as Murder Suspect in Russia

Russia wants to question former oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a suspect in a murder case that has been reopened because of new evidence, federal investigators said Tuesday. Khodorkovsky, the former owner of the now-defunct Yukos oil company, spent a decade in jail after falling out with Vladimir Putin. Now living in Switzerland, he remains one of the president's most...

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Putin Allies Feature in Probe Into Russian Mafia in Spain – Report

Some of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies — including a deputy prime minister, the head of the Investigative Committee, two former ministers and the chairman of Gazprom — are mentioned in a prosecutors' report as part of an investigation into Russian mafia activities in Spain, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The news agency cited a copy of a 488-page...

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Perversion in America: Gay Pride

By Xavier Lerma Two years ago I wrote, "Americans are turning gay and Russian men are looking more like the Klitschko brothers. The US is the modern day Sodom and Gomorrah while Christianity triumphs in Russia." The US Supreme Court last week ruled against logic allowing same sex couples to legally marry. The attack upon Christianity in America becomes worse as the legalization of homosexual marriage becomes law.  The...

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Canadian sanctions against Russia ineffective

New Canadian sanctions against Russia are unlikely to be effective. On June 29, Ottawa expanded the sanctions list against Russia. Canadian sanctions were imposed on the Eurasian Youth Union and several members of this organization. The list continues with several Russian companies, such as  Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegaz and Transneft. However, Sberbank analyst Valery Nesterov said that Russia did not have large...

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State will continue financing sport for the next five-six years — Russian sports minister

MOSCOW, June 30 /TASS/. The state will continue financing sport for the next five or six years, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Tuesday in a comment on media reports that professional sport clubs would have limited right to spend the money received from the state and state-owned companies to their own discretion. "We should be guided by a document, which has been considered by the presidential council for...

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Protesters in central Yerevan argue with police ignoring request to disperse

YEREVAN, June 30 /TASS/. Armenian protesters who refused to accept the authorities’ concession to temporarily suspend the electricity tariff hike remained on the Marshal Bagramyan avenue in central Yerevan on Tuesday. They are attempting to provoke law enforcers who are trying to persuade them to disperse peacefully and remove street barricades which have been blocking traffic for the past eight days. The protesters surrounded...

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Ukraine’s Federation of Employers calls on Poroshenko to send government to resignation

KIEV, June 30. /TASS/. Ukraine’s Federation of Employers has called on President Petro Poroshenko and leaders of the parliamentary faction to send the country’s current government to resignation, the Federation’s press service said on Tuesday. "The anti-national, anti-Ukrainian policy of the current government has led to an undeclared default. As a result of the government’s unprofessionalism, the country’s aggregate...

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World’s 1st 3D printed office building to glam up Dubai

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​Rosatom says it offers reliable nuclear supplies to Europe

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Too damn high: New York City to freeze rent on 1-year leases

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Russia Only Has Itself to Blame for Lost Influence in Post-Soviet Sphere

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Holidaymakers staying away from Sousse resort after Tunisia beach attack

TUNIS, June 30. /TASS/. The number of holidaymakers in the Tunisian popular resort town of Sousse has decreased two-fold following last Friday's attack in which at least 38 people, most of them tourists, were killed by a gunman on a nearby beach, regional tourism officials said on Tuesday. "The number of people staying at hotels in Sousse has fallen from 12,000 to 6,000 after the terrorist attack last Friday," Saloua Kadri,...

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NATO’s turn against Russia plotted long before Ukraine events — diplomat

MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. NATO’s return to the Cold War era security perception was planned long before the Ukrainian crisis, Russia’s envoy to the alliance, Alexander Grushko, said on Tuesday. "Today, the whole NATO machine is in fact turning to the East, in other words is going back to the sources. This is an extremely dangerous tendency as it envisages long-term trends," he told a video link-up between Moscow and Brussels. "NATO...

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Lavrov, Kerry discuss INF Treaty problems

VIENNA, June 30. /TASS/. Problems of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) were discussed at talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists Tuesday. "We also spoke of certain issues relating to the problem of strategic stability, the situation in the sphere of international treaties, including the Treaty [Between the United States of America and the Union of...

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Gaza: The hijacking of The Marianne by "The Pirates of the Mediterranean"

Piracy:" The practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea." (Oxford English Dictionary.) The "international community" is, it would seem, remarkably selective over piracy. Concern over Somali pirates was such that foreign Navy's were sent to protect shipping in international waters. In one incident three alleged pirates were killed and a Somali teenager spirited away to the US to be tried, whilst eleven others were sent...

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Australian politicians slam TPP for ‘excessive secrecy’

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Crowdsourcing campaign to bailout Greece launched by British shoe shop employee

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​‘Stop profiting from war,’ Christian protesters tell Church of England

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Perfect World Announces New Milestone Reached by the Zhi-Xing China Program

BEIJING, June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - Perfect World Co., Ltd. ("Perfect World" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the latest developments in the Zhi-Xing China-Perfect World US-China Young Leaders Fellowship Program ("Zhi-Xing China Program"). This program aims to bring together young members of US and Chinese societies and was successfully launched at the end of December 2014. On the evening of June 22,...

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Russian president approves ratification of alliance treaty with South Ossetia

MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on ratification of a treaty formalizing alliance and integration with South Ossetia. The document was published on the official web portal for legal information on Tuesday. The accord, signed in Moscow by the leaders of Russia and South Ossetia on March 18, was ratified by Russia’s State Duma lower house of parliament on June 19 and by the Federation...

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Russia to take every measure to neutralize NATO’s threats near its borders

MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. Russia will make a proportionate response to any threat that may emerge near its borders, Russia’s permanent envoy to NATO, Alexander Grushko, said in a Moscow-Brussels teleconference. "In terms of defence, not only political considerations are taken into account, but also potentials that might be deployed along our border," he said. "We have been able to see that NATO is making a U-turn and trying...

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Hercules C-130 crashes in Indonesia

Military transport aircraft Hercules C-130 crashed on a hotel and nearby houses in the Indonesian city of Medan. According to preliminary data, more than 50 people were killed, and the death toll is expected to rise.   Representatives of the Indonesian Air Force said that it could be a problem with the engine that caused the crash. Prior to the crash, the pilot contacted a flight control officer, reported the problems...

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How the Pentagon and American bases pollute and control humanity

We Americans are champions to produce and sell shit. Richard Brooks By Nicolas Bonnal Vladimir Putin has reminded us how our planet is covered with American bases. We are told that Russia is a great peril in Europe, yet this peril depends on the American bases and matrix which nourish the imaginative risk of the Russian bear. Poland and Baltic countries, other places in Europe are now fanaticized against Russia because our...

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Norwegian kids allowed to become transgender in 7 years

The Norwegian government introduced legislation, enabling children to change their sex in the age of 7. Thus, the country will have one of the lowest age, allowing to change sex. The vast majority of the European countries let citizens to change sex only since the age of 18. The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services claimed that in a case a kid wants to change sex being from 7 to 16 years old, he should advise...

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Three-quarters of Russians oppose hijab in schools, poll shows

RIA Novosti / Maksim Bogodvid An overwhelming majority of Russian citizens have spoken against the wearing of traditional Muslim headgear by schoolchildren and students and a large part of these people said they preferred hijab not to be used at all. According to a poll conducted by the independent research center Levada in mid-June...

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Russophrenia - an illness in need of a cure

Russophrenia - a condition where the sufferer believes Russia is both about to collapse, and take over the world. Since 2013, instances of this ailment have reached epidemic-like proportions in certain parts of Washington, London and Brussels. It’s been a grim summer in Ireland so far. The warm sunshine of the previous couple of years...

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Track fire closes Eurostar tunnel at Calais

Reuters / Christian Hartmann Eurostar services have been suspended after striking workers in Calais allegedly started a fire on the tracks. It is not clear when they will re-open. The train provider initially announced services were delayed due to the presence of protesters on the tracks, but later confirmed that a fire had been started. Eurostar...

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Russian tycoon invites Putin to attend world fencing championship in July

MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov has invited President Vladimir Putin to attend the World Fencing Championship that is due to take place in Moscow on July 13-20. "I have pleasure to invite you to attend it. I inform you that the president of the International Olympic Committee [Thomas Bach] also plans to visit our world championship," Usmanov said. Usmanov, who is the head of the International Fencing...

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BRICS disrupted US plans to block Russia — experts

MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. Russia’s cooperation with the BRICS members is developing at an enormous pace, particularly in the areas affected by anti-Russian sanctions, experts at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) said on Tuesday. They were speaking at a news conference titled "BRICS — the basis for a multi-polar world." According to head of the department of International Economic Organizations at the RISS...

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Protests against electricity price hike in Yerevan not subsiding

YEREVAN, June 30. /TASS/. Demonstrators protesting against an increase in electricity tariffs in Armenia’s capital Yerevan have refused to unblock the central Marshal Baghramyan Avenue, insisting that their actions are not a violation of the law. Yerevan police deputy chief, Valery Osipyan, is again in talks with the protesters in an attempt to convince them to disperse or move to the Freedom Square in front of the opera theatre. The...

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Coastal UK residents at ‘high risk’ of deadly asteroid tsunami, scientists warn

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Top MPs urge counter-sanctions against ‘most anti-Russian country’ Canada

Alexei Pushkov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs (RIA Novosti / Vladimir Fedorenko) The head of the State Duma’s Foreign Relations Committee has proposed reciprocating Canada’s latest anti-Russian move by introducing sanctions similar to embargo of agricultural products from EU introduced about a year ago. “We...

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SAS-style police counter-terror unit unveiled in wake of Tunisia attack

Reuters / Peter Nicholls Scotland Yard has revealed the creation of a new unit of armed police officers who will be used to tackle the threat of a gun attack in Britain. The SAS-style counter-terror unit will comprise of 130 specialist firearms officers (CTSFOs) and will be equipped with new weapons. They will also receive training...

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IATA: Russian passport is one of strongest in the world

Russian passport is placed 35th among 199 possible in the rating of passports, which enable their holders to visit other countries with no visa. The Russian passport enables its holder to visit 98 countries without a visa. The Canadian experts made up a rating of passports of the world, comprising the data of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The analysis has been made for 199 countries: 193 UN members and...

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Record drop at European stock markets after Greek crisis

The most serious drop since 2011 has been shown at the European stock markets after escalation of the Greek crisis. Stock market indices of all the developed countries displayed strongly marked negative dynamics yesterday, June, 29. Measures on the capital flow restriction in Greece, a referendum on rejection of austerity policies, as well as absence of any progress during negotiations with the EU creditors have lead to the...

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IS beheads women for the first time

The IS keep up performing their atrocities in Syria. As penetrating Deir al-Zor province, to the north-east of the country, the fighters managed to murder some local residents, including women. It was the first time the IS has decapitated female civilians, according to Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Two women were publicly beheaded, as being accused of sorcery. The victims have been killed...

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Concerned Russia Monitors EU Situation as Greek Debt Crisis Reaches Critical Point

Russia is concerned that the Greek debt crisis could have harmful consequences for the whole of the European Union, the Kremlin said on Monday. "Moscow is watching developments in the European Union very closely in the context of the financial crisis in Greece," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call. Greece closed its banks on Monday after the breakdown of bailout talks with its foreign creditors. A government...

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Foreign Ministry Says Russian Woman Killed in Tunisia Terror Attack

A Russian woman was among 39 tourists killed in a terrorist attack that saw a gunman open fire on beachgoers in the Tunisian resort of Sousse, the Foreign Ministry has said. DNA tests helped to identify one of the victims of last week's attack as a Russian citizen, who had been staying at the Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba, the ministry said Monday in an online...

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Lavrov to meet top diplomats of Germany, Iran in Vienna — source

MOSCOW, June 30. / TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is due to meet in Vienna on Tuesday with his German and Iranian counterparts Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Mohammad Javad Zarif, a source in the Russian delegation told TASS. "Sergey Lavrov is due to hold a number of bilateral meetings, including with his German and Iranian counterparts," the source said. Also on Tuesday, Lavrov will hold talks with US Secretary...

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Counter-terrorist operation regime declared in Nalchik, in North Caucasus

NALCHIK, June 30. /TASS/. Security forces have launched a counter-terrorism operation in Nalchik, the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. "A decision was taken to conduct a counter-terrorism operation and to impose the legal regime of an anti-terrorist operation as of 03:00 Moscow Time in the part of the city of Nalchik," a source in Kabardino-Balkaria’s operational headquarters told TASS. A...

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