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All necessary emergency situation units were formed in the Russian Republic of Crimea, advanced training courses were provided for emergency workers and reequipping of technicians was launched, Russian Minister of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov said in this Russian Far East city on Tuesday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping presses a charm offensive with Latin American leaders on Thursday, highlighting Beijing's growing interest in a resource-rich region traditionally considered the backyard of the United States.

"WASHINGTON: The United States announced that Iran may take part in talks to end the civil war in Syria and warned of increased military action against the Islamic State."

One of Joe Biden's central election campaign themes was restoring unity to an angry and divided nation. Twelve months after assuming office, things aren't any better, writes Nick Bryant

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A suicide bombing outside one of Islam's holiest sites killed four Saudi security forces on Monday, and similar attacks outside a Shiite mosque and a U.S. Consulate in two other Saudi cities raised fears of a coordinated assault aimed at destabilizing the Western-allied kingdom.

Is the United States of America now Land of the Secure and not the Land of the Free?

Next time, rioters in United Kingdom could get a real bullet in the head rather than a rubber one. The British Government now wants its police authorized to fire live ammo and British Army available to replace police

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday the United Nations had abruptly withdrawn Tehran's invitation to highly anticipated peace talks on Syria "under pressure".

Consulttions with the participation of experts from the Russian Federation, the United States, and Syria on the question of eliminating 12 facilities involved in the chemical production programme of the Syrian Arab Republic (S.A.R.) will be held at the beginning of February in the Hague where the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are located, a source at the UN told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

The number of civilian victims from the drone strikes more than tripled from 2012, the United Nations said.

Tehran, YJC. Iranian official says Iran has imported worth 350 from and exported $200 million to the United States.

The United States on Wednesday warned Russia against any military intervention in Ukraine as it revealed it was drawing up an economic aid package including $1 billion in loan guarantees.

The United States offered Sunday to assist the Ukraine in rebuilding its battered economy following three months of devastating protests that have plunged the country into its worst crisis since independence.

Ukraine warned Sunday it was on the brink of disaster and called up all military reservists after Russia's threat to invade its neighbour drew sharp rebukes from the United States and its Western allies.

Iranian national Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan, who spent five years in US detention from 2007 to 2012, describes the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government as the country where there is no international law, Press TV reports.

The events in Ukraine have been conditioned by a scenario realised by external forces, primarily by the United States, that should be played in the course of presidential elections in 2015, former chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Aleksander Yakimenko said.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations Security Council have both strongly condemned the terrorist attacks near the Iranian embassy in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Tuesday which killed at least 23 civilians and injured over 100 others.

The United States and other foreign powers stepped up pressure on South Sudan's feuding ethnic factions to settle their differences, as Washington dispatched an envoy to the violence-wracked region.

The United States on Tuesday voiced its "disgust" at Ukraine's repression of demonstrators at Kiev's Independence Square, Secretary of State John Kerry said.