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Floodwaters in southern France kill 70-year-old woman
A 70-year-old woman died after being swept away by floodwaters in southern France, officials said Wednesday. The woman and her husband tried to escape from their car and were caught in floodwaters uphill from Lourdes in Pierrefitte-Nestelas. Emergency personnel rescued the husband. New thunderstorms hit towns along the foothills of the Pyrenees, worsening floodwaters plaguing the region this ...
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Dutch manure silo fall kills 3 farmworkers
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Dutch police say three farmworkers have died and a fourth has been critically injured after they fell into a silo filled with manure for use as fertilizer in the northern town of ...
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5.3-magnitude quake hits southern Italy USGS
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake jolted southern Italy in the early hours of Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake occurred at 1:05 a.m. Friday (2305 GMT Thursday) with its epicenter at a depth of 3.80 km. So far, there has been no report of casualties or damage from the ...
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At least one dead in roadside blast in Russias N.Ossetia
At least one person has been killed and several injured in a suicide attack on a road patrol post in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, Interfax reports. According to sources the incident occurred when local law enforcement officers pulled over a vehicle for inspection. As the officer approached the car, an explosive device was reportedly detonated. Authorities are at the scene, three ...
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US-funded radio service taken off the air in Russia
By Mei Jingya, Sina English Radio Liberty, the U.S.-funded broadcaster, is being forced to shut down its AM radio station in Moscow, but plans to operate under the same name as an online service. When the Cold War was at its peak, Radio Liberty, transmitted on short wave, was founded in the 1950s to broadcast American views into the former Soviet Union, which did not welcome the broadcast. ...
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Russia attempts to free abducted sailors in Nigeria
MOSCOW, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Moscow was making every effort to free the six Russian sailors captured by pirates in Nigeria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. "Russian Foreign Ministry and Russian Embassy to Nigeria, with a close contact with the ship owner and the Nigerian authorities, are taking all necessary measures for sooner release of the abducted seamen and to secure their ...
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Chopper crashes in Russia pilot killed
A helicopter fell in the Russian Krasnoyarsk region after hitting an obstacle with its tail, the region's main emergency agency said today. The source has said the Mi-8 chopper bound for the Yukorchen-52 platform hit its tail broom on some obstacle and crashed while landing. It was reported earlier that the aircraft had a hard landing in the Krasnoyarsk region, killing the pilot and ...
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No casualties in Russias market fire
A fire broke out at one of Moscow's biggest art and flea markets in a suburb around midnight Tuesday and severely damaged a building, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Wednesday. The blaze engulfed some 1,000 square meters of a three-story wooden building at the Izmailovsky market, Itar-Tass news agency quoted the authorities as saying. Since the market was not open for business at ...
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Chinese gangs busted in Spain
By Yu Runze, Sina English At least 74 people have been arrested by the Spanish police in a broad operation to break up Chinese gangs that are engaging in money laundering and fiscal fraud. The operation, in which more than 300 officers participated, was centered mainly in Madrid and Barcelona, but law enforcement authorities also acted in other Spanish provinces to serve 108 arrest warrants. ...
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Austria to exchange tax information with EU partners from 2015
Austria will share tax information with its European Union (EU) partners from 2015 in order to fight against cross-border tax evasion, the Austrian cabinet decided on Tuesday. Under the plan which puts Austria in line with EU requirements, tax assessments will begin in 2014 while the automatic exchange of tax information will follow the year after. The exchanges of information will be based on ...
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Russia has 3 to 5 million illegal immigrants
By Mei Jingya, Sina English The number of illegal immigrants in Russia ranges from 3 to 5 million people, RIA Novosti reported Monday, quoting the deputy head of the Federal Migration Service of Russia. "These are people who have exceeded the period of stay in Russia and most probably work illegally," Ekaterina Yegorova said at a press conference on Monday. She added that this ...
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Sweden to extradite man suspected of killing Russian girlfriend to Norway
A 45-year-old Swede, suspected of abducting and killing his former Russian girlfriend, will be handed over to the Norwegian police today, a police spokesperson has told Itar-Tass. Sweden's Kronoberg County police spokesperson Robert Loeffel said they expected Norwegian police to arrive soon. Mr. Loeffel didn't disclose details of the investigation but said the suspect had lived in ...
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Russia rejects India’s compensation request for carrier delay
Russia rejected India's claims on modernization of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya (former Admiral Gorshkov), Defense News reported, citing a source in Indian defense ministry. Earlier reports said India planned to claim compensation from Russia for delayed delivery of Vikramaditya at the meeting of Russian and Indian defense ministers Anatoly Serdiukov and A.K. Antony. According to ...
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Thousands protest austerity in Spain
Thousands of people gathered in Madrid on Saturday to voice their anger at austerity measures introduced by the Spanish government. Protesters banged pots and pans and chanted slogans against cuts. Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy's administration presented a 2013 draft budget that will cut overall spending by 40 billion Euros. These will freeze the salaries of public workers, cut ...
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Russias Far East conducts local elections
Russia on Sunday held extensive local elections on Sunday, with voters in several regions in the Far East turning out to choose heads of regional councils and legislative bodies. By 10 a.m.(2300 GMT on Saturday), two hours after the election started in Amur Oblast, which was witnessing its first direct gubernatorial election in 11 years, 5 percent of voters had cast their ballots, said the ...
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Russia to create military police department report
Russian Defense Ministry will create a military police department, which will have operative and search functions with the right of initiating a criminal case, Kommersant reported Oct. 10. According to the newspaper, the new special unit will be a part of the Russian Armed Forces, which will cooperate with other state and municipal law enforcement agencies. The military police will also be ...
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Russia denies Syrian plane contained arms report
The Syrian passenger plane Turkey intercepted en route from Moscow to Damascus did not contain any arms or military equipment on board, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday, citing an arms exporting source. "Neither weapons nor any systems or assembly parts for military equipment were or could have been on board the passenger plane," the unidentified high-ranking source from one ...
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Russia asks Turkey to explain about grounded jet
The Syrian passenger plane Turkey intercepted en route from Moscow to Damascus did not contain any arms or military equipment on board, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday, citing an arms exporting source. "Neither weapons nor any systems or assembly parts for military equipment were or could have been on board the passenger plane," the unidentified high-ranking source from one ...
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Russia to delay delivery of Indias second aircraft carrier
In a major blow to India, Russia Wednesday announced that it would delay the delivery of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya as the ship's power plant "malfunctioned during sea trials", prompting an angry response from New Delhi. Announcing the delay, visiting Russian Defense Minister A.E. Serdyukou claimed the aircraft carrier had been sent back to the shipyard for thorough checks ...
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Downpour-triggered mudslide kills seven in Russia
MOSCOW, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- A mudslide triggered by heavy rains killed seven people in southern Russia, the country's Emergency Situations Department said Wednesday. The tragedy happened in Derbent, a city in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, where parts of the city were flooded following a 40-minute downpour, an emergency official told local media. Preliminary information showed ...
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Russia demands NATO guarantees over missile shield
MOSCOW, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday reiterated Moscow's demand for NATO's guarantees that its missile defense program in Europe will not target Russia. Russia needs guarantees that the U.S.-led NATO missile shield would aim at only missile threats "emanating from outside the Euro-Atlantic region, that is, not from Russia," Lavrov ...
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Frances Hollande says to vote for military intervention in Mali
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday expressed his readiness to give green light to the launching of a military operation to end crisis in northern Mali. "France has once again confirmed its readiness not only to vote for this resolution, but to support the logistical and political the initiative taken by Africans," Hollande said. "The goal is to eradicate terrorism for ...
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Cruise ship with meningitis outbreak docks in Spain
The cruise-ship Orchesta arrived in the Spanish port of Valencia on Tuesday after four cases of bacterial meningitis had been reported among members of its crew. The ship, which has 2,800 passengers onboard arrived after sailing from the Italian port of Liverno. The four infected crew members, two of whom are said to be in a serious condition, are in hospital, while the passengers and ...
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Russia expresses concern over ROKs pursuit of longer-range missiles
Russia on Tuesday expressed its concern over the Republic of Korea's pursuit of longer-range missiles under a revised pact with the United States, warning that the move may lead to new arms race on the Korean Peninsula. "We have invariably reaffirmed our negative attitude to the leadership of the Republic of Korea (ROK) over these intentions, which are potential sources of further ...
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Protests launched in Spain demanding vote on spending cuts
Protests were seen in 57 different Spanish cities in demanding a referendum on the spending cuts introduced by the government of Mariano Rajoy. The Social Council, an organization made up of over 150 different groups, including Spain's main labor unions, organized the protests. The Social Council believes the cuts will lead to continued recession and even higher unemployment in a country ...
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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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