MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - The incident with Russian peacekeepers detained in western Georgia is a provocation, an aide to the Collective Peacekeeping Force commander in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone said on Sunday. Alexander Diordiyev said Russian peacekeepers were

TEHRAN, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the country's interior minister, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, on Saturday, said the official IRNA news agency. The agency also said that a caretaker interior minister had been appointed. "The president has

SHARM EL-SHEIK, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. President George Bush and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak discussed the situation in the Middle East and efforts to boost faltering peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in the Egyptian Red Sea resort

BEIJING, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - The number of people killed in the powerful earthquake that struck southwest China on Monday now stands at nearly 29,000, a Chinese Cabinet spokesman told journalists on Saturday. Guo Weimin said that 28,881 people

ROME, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - Angry residents of the Italian city of Naples have thrown stones at firemen extinguishing mounds of blazing garbage in city dumps, the Italian news agency ANSA reported on Saturday. The ongoing garbage crisis struck

MADRID, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - Spanish police have announced that they have detained five young hackers from a notorious group that hacked into a number of websites run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America and Asia, possibly

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