NEW DELHI, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Indian lawmakers have said they want stray dogs removed from the area around the parliament building for security reasons despite protests by animal rights activists. Members of the lower house of the Indian
MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - A play by a British director based on the 2002 Moscow theater siege could be shown in Beslan, the south Russian city that witnessed a similar tragedy in 2004, and in Italy, the playwright
THE HAGUE, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - The office of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has received a request from the Russian embassy in the Netherlands regarding a book by the tribunal's former
BELGRADE, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Kosovo authorities plan to open 20 embassies abroad, the deputy prime minister of the self-proclaimed state, Hajredin Kuci, told journalists on Friday. Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence on February 17, adopting a new national
GAZA, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Four Palestinians died, including a 12-year-old boy, and at least five were wounded in an Israeli raid on Gaza Friday, local health officials said. The deaths occurred near the Al-Bureij refugee camp in Gaza
TEHRAN, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Iranian nuclear officials in Natanz have launched about 500 new centrifuges to enrich uranium, a source told the Iranian agency IRNA. Iran currently uses around 3,000 'P-1' centrifuges, according to the UN nuclear watchdog,
CAIRO, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - A 30-year-old woman died of bird flu in Egypt on Friday bringing the total death toll from the deadly H5N1 strain in the country to 22, the local health ministry said. Walaa Ahmed Abdel
KIEV, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday that the crew of over 30 people on board a luxury French yacht captured by Somali pirates a week ago has been freed. The Le Ponant owned by
WASHINGTON, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - The U.S. cannot verify reports about recent advances in Iran's nuclear program, U.S. State Secretary Condoleezza Rice said on Friday. At a news conference with Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Rice said she could
CAIRO, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Egypt has officially confirmed that the Middle East 'mini-summit,' to be attended by the U.S. president, will take place in late May in Sharm el-Sheikh, MENA news agency said Friday. The agency quoted Hossam
l Yury Baluyevsky, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said: - Russia will be forced to strengthen security on its borders if Georgia and Ukraine join NATO - Japan will not join the U.S. global missile
The Parents Television Council on Thursday lambasted Viacom's MTV and BET for running adult-themed content during after-school and weekend hours, thereby exposing young viewers to a cesspool of explicit language and sexually-charged themes.
GAZA, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Israel's Air Force launched strikes on the southern Gaza Strip on Friday morning killing two militants, local health authorities said. Eyewitnesses said Israeli aircraft launched two rockets at a militant group in the east
MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will be forced to strengthen security on its borders if Georgia and Ukraine join NATO, Army General Yury Baluyevsky, chief of the country's General Staff, said on Friday. At a summit in Bucharest
TEHRAN, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Iran has reiterated its call for an international uranium enrichment center to be established on its soil, a deputy head of the country's atomic energy organization said on Friday. "Unfortunately, the export of nuclear
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Christie's International sold a nude photo of France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy for $91,000, over 20 times its pre-auction estimate, the auction house said on Friday. The photo, taken in 1993 by Michel
BAKU, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Iran could replace Turkmenistan in the Western-backed Nabucco pipeline project designed to pump gas from the Caspian to Europe bypassing Russia, the EU's new ambassador in Azerbaijan said Friday. Alan Waddams told the Azerbaijani
Scarborough Research announced Thursday the launch of the Scarborough Kids Internet Panel (SKIP) to produce custom studies about the consumer behaviors of youth and teens, aged 5 to 17. The nationally representative panel is made up of about 75,000 children
