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12:49 Russia still seen as threat - Kommersant

12:47 Israel's Gaza raid "excessive" - UN

12:46 Canada unveils cancer-fighting virus

12:46 Central Asia nations to answer for regional security - Medvedev

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11:42 Production growth to slow down in 2011 - UN

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Abkhazia chooses new President		“Nadezhda” ready to set sail

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Goodbye to S-300		Egypt without life’s risks

Cash assets unfrozen for new Libya

$15 billion from Muammar Gaddafi’s arrested foreign assets may be unfrozen for the needs of Libya’s National Transitional Council in the nearest future. This has become the key outcome of the Friends of Libya Conference held in Paris. This money is expected to be spent on restoring the country after the six months of bloody... →

	Russia recognizes Libya’s new government
	The CIA is working with al-Qaeda in Libya

Israeli blockade of Gaza legal - UN

Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza introduced in May 2010 is legal, a UN report says.The UN had to launch an inquiry into the matter following an incident involving the so-called aid flotilla last year in which Israeli commandoes attacked a convoy with humanitarian supplies which aimed at breaking the blockade.Nine activists were killed in the... →

	Storming the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
	“Peace Concert” in Gaza Strip

Russian, Afghan, Pakistani,Tajik leaders pledge deeper economic ties

The presidents of Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan have asked their economic ministers to speed up paperwork preceding commitments to long-term economic cooperation.A joint statement released in Dushanbe says the move is required in the interests of all four countries.The four presidents agreed to boost their countries` partnership in... →

Central Asia nations to answer for regional security - Medvedev

Tehran and Washington at impasse over U-enrichment

Tehran has recently announced they can enrich uranium to up to 20% and that their production exceeds the country’s demand. Iran’s atomic chief also stated Iran will no longer negotiate a nuclear fuel swap with some of the world powers. Gary G. Sick, Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia... →

	Sarkozy: strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities a possibility
	Iran rejects uranium swap deal

UK: imperial ambitions and real abilities

In an editorial article of September 1st, The Guardian writes about the recently announced UK defense budget cuts. According to the newspaper, “ever since Chancellor Winston Churchill slashed spending on the navy in the 1920s, Britain’s retreat from global influence has been less a question of careful deliberation than the product of... →

	Britain can't keep its secrets
	Britain puts HMS Invincible for sale

Today marks the end of WW II

Russia marks the 66th anniversary of the end of WW II.On September 2, 1945, Japan signed the act of unconditional surrender, bringing to an end six years of world war.Flowers are being laid at war memorials all across Russia, and particularly in the country`s Far East- the Amur and the Primorye regions, and in Sakhalin. →

	Medvedev awards 3 Russian cities for WWII feats
	Victory Day Parade: Power of Military Hardware

Russia still seen as threat - Kommersant

Russia is still viewed as a threat to the West, despite the reset with the US and its strengthening partnership with Europe, Russia’s Kommersant reports.The newspaper, citing a new series of secret State Department documents released by WikiLeaks, says that western nations see Russia as a threat and are trying to get its closest neighbors... →

	Ulyanovsk marks 80 years of its aviation
	Russia downgrades GDP growth forecast

Children of Beslan: Story by kids and about kids

September 1 the town of Beslan commemorated the loss from the school siege at the Tree of Sorrow, which is a part of memorial cemetery called the City of Angels. The names of the victims were read aloud and 334 balloons were released. Eva Ewart, a senior producer and director at BBC, talks about her documentary Children of Beslan, a film made up... →

	Beslan, September 2004
	Russia marks 7th anniversary of Beslan massacre

Patriarch Kirill on tour of Siberia

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has arrived in Irkutsk as part of his pastoral tour of Siberia.Today, Patriarch Kirill is visiting the Znamensky Monastery and will lay floral tributes to the statue of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, a prominent oceanographer and polar explorer who led Siberia’s White Guards during the 1918-20 Civil War.T... →

	President Dmitry Medvedev congratulates Patriarch Kirill on his Name Day
	Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia visits Star City

Mosque and Chapel being built at site of tragedy

The construction of a mosque and a chapel near the site of the sinking of the Bulgaria pleasure ship has begun on the banks of the Volga River in Tatarstan.The diesel-electric powered Bulgaria pleasure ship sank during a storm on July 10th 2011 killing 122 people including 28 children. →

	Prayers, flowers and candles in memory of shipwreck victims
	Rescue operation continues at boat accident site

Turkey angry over leaked UN report on Gaza Flotilla raid

Turkey is outraged at the leak of the UN panel`s report on the Gaza Flotilla raid, the country`s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said.A copy of the report was leaked by the New York Times on its website, hours before the official release.The UN panel has found that Israel used excessive and unreasonable force during its raid of a Turkish aid... →

	Storming the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
	Israel's Gaza raid "excessive" - UN

Early warning radar to be deployed in Turkey

An early warning radar will be deployed in Turkey as part of the US and NATO’s missile defense system in Europe, a Turkish foreign ministry spokesman said.The spokesman, Selchuk Unal, says that talks on the deployment of the radar are in their final stage and that a decision to this effect was taken at NATO’s summit in Lisbon last year.... →

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	US, Romania plan ABM deal

Gaddafi promises guerilla war

At a press conference announcing the results of the international conference on Libya in Paris, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that NATO will continue its military operations in Libya as long as Muammar Gaddafi poses a threat to the civilian population of the country.Gaddafi himself has promised to begin a guerrilla war against Libya... →

	Russia recognizes Libya’s new government
	The CIA is working with al-Qaeda in Libya

Lukashenko set to release prisoners

Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko has pledged to release all political prisoners by mid October 2011.A statement to this effect quoted by Reuter was part of a letter from Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton.Mladenov met with Lukashenko at the... →

	President Lukashenko issues pardons
	Central Bank of Belarus gets new head

Canada unveils cancer-fighting virus

Canadian researchers have unveiled a study which proves that a single intravenous infusion of a genetically engineered virus can home in on cancer, killing tumor cells in patients without harming healthy tissue, Reuters says.The trial, which involved 23 patients with various types of advanced cancer, was designed to assess the safety of the virus.I... →

	E.coli outbreak in Germany
	Russians develop cirrhosis cure

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