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Russia to keep Kyrgyzstan military base
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Sept. 20 to a deal with Kyrgyzstan that will allow Russia to keep a military base in the country until 2032 as Moscow and Washington jostle for influence in the region. The agreement -- essentially a set of memorandums of intent ahead of formal treaties -- also foresees Russia wiping out nearly $500 million (380 million euros) in debt owed by ...
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Russia expects visit of Japanese PM this year
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda may visit Russia by the end of this year, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday. "We are going to work closely with the Japanese side to fill that visit with substance, so it would bring additional fruits to our cooperation," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich. Lukashevich added that both Moscow and Tokyo would work on ...
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Eight militants killed in Russias North Caucasus
MOSCOW, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Eight gunmen were killed in a police ambush in Russia's North Caucasus region, the local Interior Ministry said Thursday. During an early morning counter-terrorist operation in the Kabardino-Balkaria republic, eight militants trapped in a private house were killed in the capital city of Nalchik, local police said. Two of the killed were women. Four of the ...
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France bans protest over anti-Islam movie
France on Thursday banned a demonstration to protest against the publication of the U.S. movie mocking the Prophet Mohammed that had triggered outrage across the Muslim world, local media reported. According to news channel BFMTV, Paris police banned a planned protest outside Paris Mosque on Saturday as a precautionary measure after calls circulated on social networks to protest over the ...
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France alert to protests over satirical cartoons
France kept alert on possible anti-France protests, closing its diplomatic missions and schools in some Islamic countries Wednesday after a French weekly published cartoons mocking the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. The French Foreign Ministry said in a statement that France had decided to temporarily close its embassies, consulates, cultural centers and schools in more than 20 Islamic countries as ...
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Putin backs claim USAID tried to meddle in politics in Russia
President Vladimir Putin has backed Foreign Ministry assertions the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was trying to meddle in politics in Russia. Putin "shared a similar opinion" with the ministry on the role USAID had played in Russia, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Vedomosti newspaper Thursday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich ...
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France to close diplomatic sites in 20 Muslim countries on Friday
France will close diplomatic sites in 20 Muslim countries over concern that a French satirical magazine's publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad may provoke a violent backlash. France will close embassies, consulates, cultural centers and French schools on Friday, the day of prayer for Muslims, the foreign ministry said in an emailed statement. "We have given ...
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Belgium PM becomes organ donor
Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo has announced on the social network Facebook that he is ready to donate his organs after his death. Starting on Tuesday the Belgian edition of Facebook has a new feature: users can now state on their profiles that they intend to become organ donors after death. They are then asked to fill out a form on the website of the Federal Ministry of Health. ...
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Most Greeks reject austerity attached to bailout aid but support euro survey
ATHENS, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- An overwhelming majority of seven out of ten Greeks reject harsh austerity attached to bailout agreements with international lenders which keep debt-ridden Greece afloat since 2010, according to a new opinion poll released in Athens on Tuesday. However, the survey conducted by Public Issue for the local Kathimerini newspaper and SKAI television and radio channels, ...
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Russia EU call for non-political humanitarian aid to Syria
MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Russia and the European Union (EU) call for neutral and non-political humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. During a meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov and visiting European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva, the two sides ...
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Leader of Communist Party of Spain dies in Madrid
Santiago Carrillo, a historical leader of the Communist Party of Spain, died at the age of 97 in Madrid on Tuesday, local media reported. Carrillo, died at his home in Madrid while he was having a nap. Last week the state of his health deteriorated. His mortal remains were taken to the headquarters of the Spanish trade union Comisiones Obreras (Workers Commissions) in Madrid. Next Thursday ...
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Spains railway workers to strike
Spain's railway workers will hold a 24-hour strike today which will lead to cancellation of 302 long-distance and commuter rains, according to local media reports. Strikers are protesting against the Spanish government's decision to privatize the rail transport network and reduce wages. In solidarity workers in the country's subway (underground) system have also decided to ...
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230 detained in Belgium
In Belgium on Sunday police detained 230 people who were protesting against the film "The Innocence of Muslims". One officer was injured but his life is not in danger. The demonstration took place in the city of Antwerp which has a large population of people from the Middle East. The protest was not coordinated with the authorities so the police arrested all of the participants who ...
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Four Russian tourists dead 30 injured in bus overturn in northern Greece
ATHENS, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Four Russian tourists died and 30 were injured, when a tourist bus overturned in the suburbs of the city port of Thessaloniki in northern Greece on Friday. According to local traffic police, the bus with a total of 51 passengers was heading towards the airport on a slippery road due to rain when the accident occurred. Fire Brigade assisted in the evacuation of the ...
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Central bank governor China always confident in euro
China welcomed European Union's agreement on the 109 billion euro bailout plan for Greece and has been confident of the stability of the euro zone and other member countries in the past, present or future, said Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of People's Bank of China on July 23 during an interview with Financial Times. Bailout plan helps bring financial stability After eight hours of ...
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Burmese President to Visit White House
The former general will meet with President Barack Obama during a visit human rights organizations and some politicians say is premature because of anti-Muslim violence and continuing rights violations in Burma. Officials say the two countries are expected to use the visit to work out agreements that could lead to regular talks on boosting trade, labor standards and investment. On Sunday, ...
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Kerry Travels to Mideast as Parties Weigh Syria Peace Conference Plan
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry travels to the Middle East on Monday, as efforts to bring about a Syrian peace conference proposed by the United States and Russia face several key meetings this ...
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6.4-magnitude quake hits east coast of Russias Kamchatka
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted the sea area off the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Monday, according to Itar-Tass reports.The quake occurred at 6:44 a.m. local time on Monday (1944 GMT Sunday), according to the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.The epicenter, at a depth of 40 km, is 174 km east ofPetropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.Tremors ...
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European Countries Lead World in Distrust of Banks
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Thirteen percent of Greeks said they had confidence in their country's banks or financial institutions in 2012, leading the nearly all-European list of countries where trust in financial institutions was among the worst in the world last year. Seven European Union countries had trust levels lower than 30%, far below the median 55% across 135 countries. Even in the ...
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RPT-Bankia compensation qualms signal loss of faith in Spains banks
Mon May 20, 2013 2:07am EDT * Spanish govt created compensation scheme to defuse scandal * Bankia expects around 150,000 people to seek arbitration * Lawyers say many people inquiring about taking cases to court By Sonya Dowsett MADRID, May 19 (Reuters) - Many duped savers at Spanish lender Bankia are shunning a state-supervised compensation scheme in favour of expensive lawsuits, prolonging a ...
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CORRECTED-S.Africas Barloworld boosts H1 profit Russia unit robust
Mon May 20, 2013 2:37am EDT (Corrects day of the week) * Headline EPS at 321 cents vs 245 cents * Revenue up 11 percent at 31.3 billion rand JOHANNESBURG, May 20 (Reuters) - South African industrial group Barloworld Ltd boosted first-half profit by a third on Monday, as a solid result in its Russian mining equipment business offset slack demand at home. Barloworld, which also sells cars and ...
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European stock index futures signal higher open
LONDON | Mon May 20, 2013 2:04am EDT LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - European stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Monday, boosted by signs of an improving global growth outlook. At 0602 GMT, futures for the Euro STOXX 50 were up 0.5 percent and France's CAC were up 0.4-0.5 percent, while contracts on Germany's DAX were up 0.7 percent and futures on Britain's FTSE 100 ...
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Europe Seen Higher Central Banks in Focus
CAC up 20 points at 4,021. Some other European markets are closed for a public holiday on Monday. On Wednesday, a slew of central bank meetings will be watched by investors looking to see the direction of central bank monetary policies. The Bank of England (BoE) publishes minutes from this month's Monetary Policy Committee meeting and its decision on interest rates and markets will be ...
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US diplomat leaves Russia
Russian television says a US diplomat at the centre of a spying row has left Moscow. Ryan Fogle was given five days to leave Russia after allegedly trying to recruit an intelligence officer as an informer. The US state department has confirmed the ...
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European Factors to Watch - Shares seen extending rally on growth boost
LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - European stocks were seen rising at the open on Monday, taking their cue from ebullient global equity markets after encouraging signals from the U.S. and Japanese economies. The U.S. Dow and S&P 500 finished at ...
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US nuclear missles in Europe remain poised for a war that will never come
The United States and Russia recently signed a new landmark nuclear non-proliferation treaty called START in March and the US in early May followed up its non-proliferation goals by making the unprecedented step of publicly declaring how many nuclear weapons it had – just over 5,113 in total, though many of them are in storage and would take time to be deployed.
That is a vast reduction compared to the total arsenal the country possessed at the height of the Cold War in 1967, the number at that time was 31,225, according to reports by European news media. Read more
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