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  Weapons being smuggled to terrorists in Syria

  16.05.2012 Hotspots and Incidents » Terrorism

  The UN has information that weapons are being smuggled in both directions between Lebanon and Syria, said a UN envoy for the Middle East on TThe envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen, said that the Middle East is witnessing a spiral of the "Dance of Death" because of the conflict in Syria while President Bashar Assad faces opponents. esday. V
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  Koalas in Australia may disappear

  16.05.2012 Science » Planet Earth

  The population of koalas decreased 42% in the last two decades and has suffered from habitat loss and new diseases...the Australian Government cataloged koalas as a "vulnerable species" in the list of threatened animals
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  Building democracy requires attacks against riot police?

  16.05.2012 Russia » Politics

  On Tuesday, May 15th, the State Duma discussed the events that took place in Moscow on May 6th, when the authorized action of the opposition in the center of Moscow developed into mass riots and clashes with riot police. There were only OMON police officers (riot police) hospitalized as a result of the clashes
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  New global armed conflict may start any moment

  16.05.2012 Hotspots and Incidents » Conflicts

  The crisis in the relations between China and the Philippines has been balancing on the edge of a military conflict for more than a month. No one has probably noticed that, but the world was standing on the brink of a new international armed conflict in April. The situation began to escalate in the South China Sea on April 10
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  No nearby dark matter

  16.05.2012 Science » Technologies and discoveries

  A new Chilean study has found that there is essentially no "dark matter" in the solar neighborhood. Dark matter is the name of an as-yet-unobserved material whose existence is inferred by its gravitational effects on visible objects. Three independent lines of evidence support the existence of dark matter, so why was it not detected in this study?
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  Jimmy Carter - Mass Murderer

  16.05.2012 Opinion » Columnists

  According to American scholar Noam Chomsky, every U.S. president since Truman was or is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity according to America's own precedent set in Tokyo and Nuremberg just after World War ll. Jimmy Carter has been appointed a diplomatic plenipotentiary time and again, especially under Clinton
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  AIDS: 21st century’s biggest fraud

  16.05.2012 Health

  AIDS is simply a hoax. The HIV/Aids industry is a 300 billion-dollar industry of manipulative fraud, lies, deceptions, more lies and many more lies. From a ploy by a few people running into hundreds, it has risen over two decades. It's simply been used over and over to balance government corrupt books
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  Interview with Qaisra Shahraz

  16.05.2012 History, traditions

  Qaisra Shahraz was born in Pakistan and grew up in England. She studied English and Classical Civilisaton at the University of Manchester, later gaining a Masters degree in English and European Literature. She has written plays for the radio and theatre, also scripting for the television at the same time. Her drama series Dil Hee To Hai has been...
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  Clinton putting squeeze on India

  16.05.2012 World » Asia

  The head of U.S. diplomacy, Hillary Clinton, said today that as part of its obligations to the international community, India must suspend its imports of Iranian oil. Clinton acknowledged the Indian stance on various issues of global importance, but added that one of its pending duties is to limit the purchases of oil from Iran ...
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  India and Iran strengthen ties

  16.05.2012 Hotspots and Incidents » Conflicts

  During a telephone conversation between Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, noting their mutual existing capacities, both sides stressed the need for full extension of bilateral relations and increased cooperation between Tehran - New Delhi in various fields.
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  Why is the ICC against Africa?

  15.05.2012 Opinion » Columnists

  Is the so-called "International Criminal Court" a racist organization? If not, then why is Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor, suddenly fascinated by the prospect of trying war crimes in the DR Congo when an indictment against NATO was thrust before his eyes and he does nothing? And what about the NTC terrorists in Libya?
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  Russia's break dance champion loses leg due to medical negligence

  15.05.2012 Society » Real life stories

  Russia's break dance champion, the winner of over 30 cups and handfuls of medals, Yevgeny Smirnov, who performs at "Freestyle Masters" lost his leg due to medical negligence. The medical treatment has been delayed for too long. The 25-year-old dancer was hospitalized on May 1st, after a serious car accident
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  Man smashes his bike to kill himself for his girlfriend

  15.05.2012 Society

  A motorcycle accident is being investigated in Russia's Kemerovo region. The driver of the bike was the victim in the accident
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  Humans destroy a third of Earth's biological resources in 40 years

  15.05.2012 Science

  Ecologists have been sounding the alert: from 1970 to 2008 the biological resources of our planet have been shrunk by 28%
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  Mother kills baby with alcohol in her own breast milk

  15.05.2012 Society

  A resident from the settlement of Ufimskiy in the Achinskiy region has been accused of the unpremeditated murder of her own newly born child
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  25 mongrel dogs burn alive in dog shelter fire

  15.05.2012 Hotspots and Incidents

  This morning in the town of Solyakamsk in the Perm region a fire broke out in a dogs' shelter. 25 mongrels died in the blaze
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  Aeroflot struggles with hell-raising passengers and pilots

  15.05.2012 Business

  Russia's major airline - Aeroflot - headed by General Director Vitaly Savelev has opted to bring out an initiative which allows air companies to make a blacklist of passengers and pilots
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  World's most powerful rocket performed only two flights

  15.05.2012 History, traditions

  May 15th marks 25 years since the first launch of the world's most powerful booster rocket Energia. The rocket is capable of delivering more than 100 tons of cargo into space. However, some experts say that such projects as Energia became a huge burden for the Soviet economy and caused considerable damage to it, not to mention the space industry
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  America's instruments of oppression

  15.05.2012 Opinion » Columnists

  Americans are already tracked when traveling with their passports through RFID microchips that can be read from up to 500 feet. Mobile phones, and credit cards, make it easy for the government to find citizens. With relative ease the government can tell if you bought a ticket to a political rally or purchased a book critical of the government
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  Macedonia: Albanians want more

  15.05.2012 World » Europe

  The situation in Macedonia has been heating up in March. Clashes in Skopje and Tetovo between ethnic Albanians and the Slavic population ended in fights and beatings. On April 12, near Skopje, on the shore of Lake Smilkovsky, four Slavic Macedonians were killed. Police circulated pictures of the tragedy site clearly depicting an Albanian flag