Russia Sees Good Prospects for Cooperation With Japan
Sergei Naryshkin, the speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, said that Russia sees positive prospects for cooperation with Japan, despite current tensions in relations.
View ArticleFirm Behind Orlando Shooter’s Weapon Sees Expanded Market in US
Sig Sauer, the New Hampshire-based privately-owned weapons manufacturer that built and sold the assault rifle used in the Orlando shooting massacre, is expanding production, with the goal of supplying...
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Cost of most popular Obamacare plans to spike by double digits in 2017 – report
Popular Obamacare plans are expected to come with a double digit price hike once enrollment for 2017 begins mere days before the presidential election, a new analysis predicts. It also found a steep...
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House GOP leaders block vote on LGBT rights 2 days after Orlando massacre
Just two days after a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, House GOP leaders blocked a vote on a proposal drafted by Democrats that have protected LGBT employees against sexual discrimination....
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14% of US children have dangerously high levels of lead in their blood– report
Amidst the fallout from the Flint water crisis, concern for lead poisoning is rising – as is the number of cities where it has been found to be a problem. A new study finds as many as one in seven...
View ArticleSouth Korea Holds Sea Drills to Prepare for Pyongyang’s ‘Provocations’
South Korea is conducting maritime exercises off the western coast to prepare for possible North Korean provocations.
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‘Black Power’ turns 50: How the catchphrase revolutionized the civil rights...
Fifty years ago this Thursday, a pivotal speech in Greenwood, Mississippi radically changed the direction of the global civil rights movement forever – when Trinidadian immigrant Stokely Carmichael...
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6 Zika-related pregnancies in US, half carried to term with birth defects
In addition to the three babies born with Zika-related defects in the US, three other pregnancies with evidence of the virus were lost, according to the first Centers for Disease Control and...
View ArticleRussia, Japan to Hold Peace Treaty Talks in Tokyo on June 22
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida announced that Russia and Japan will hold peace treaty talks in Tokyo on June 22.
View ArticleDeclassified CIA File: Bin-Laden Aide Stopped Providing Intel After Torture
A damning new report written by the CIA’s Office of Medical Services at the time of Abu Zubaydah’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ sessions found that the senior al-Qaeda official was willing to cooperate,...
View ArticleRussia, US Work Against Ansar Beit Terrorists - Ex-US Officer
Russia, the United States, Israel and some European countries are providing intelligence and assistance to Egypt against Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Daesh affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula, retired US Army...
View ArticleSelfie Alert: NASA Rover Sends Two Self Portraits Back to Earth
Using a 7-foot long camera called the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), the Curiosity rover took the pictures on the foothills of Mount Sharp last month, a 3.4-mile high area near a site called Okuruso.
View ArticleAnsar Beit Terror Group Exploits Limited Egyptian Security Role in Sinai
The Ansar Beit al-Maqdis Islamist terror group has been able to flourish in the Sinai Peninsula because the Egyptian army is prevented from operating effectively there by its peace treaty with Israel,...
View ArticleSeverstal will dispute European Commission’s decision to impose duties on...
The anti-dumping investigation in respect of cold-rolled steel from Russia and China was initiated by the European Commission at the request of the European Steel Association
View ArticleRussian athletes to compete in Rio — Zhukov
"I am sure that our team will go to the Olympics to compete," President of the Russian Olympic Committee said
View ArticleObama Hopes New Afghan Policy to Stave Off Collapse of Kabul Government
The new US policy of sending combat advisers to strengthen and guide regular Afghan National Army units is an attempt to delay the potential collapse of forces fighting the Taliban, Western analysts...
View ArticleAuction for Erginskoye oil field is expected to be hold in August 2016 — Donskoy
The Erginskoye field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area is one of the most promising. The oil reserves of C1 + C2 category amount to 103 million tonnes
View ArticleChinese rating agency Dagong expects to start operating in Russia in 2017
"We know that Russia very much needed ratings Dagong," Guan Jianzhong, head of China's Dagong said
View ArticleRussian soldier wounded in Syria in May dies — Defense Ministry
The serviceman got his fatal wound in the governorate of Aleppo
View ArticleGroup of Russian doctors receive annual medical award for face transplant
The doctors transplanted the face tissue together with the cartilages and the mucous membrane of the nose to a 19-year-old patient, who suffered an electric trauma
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