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  • US president plans talks with Russia on reducing nuclear weapons US president plans talks with Russia on reducing nuclear weapons

    BERLIN - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday said he would seek talks with Russia to reduce the number of strategic nuclear weapons both hold by up to a third. Speaking in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate during a visit to the German capital, Obama said he was confident the US could maintain its security while reducing its nuclear capacity by a third. He also called for ...

  • With Russian Help Europe Prepares to Search for Life on Mars

    PARIS The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials said at the Paris Airshow this week. Until last year, the ExoMars program was a joint project between ESA and the U.S. space agency NASA. But NASA dropped out, citing budget problems. The Russian space ...

  • Obama proposes further US Russian nuclear arms cut

    US President Barack Obama, currently on an official visit to Berlin, Wednesday proposed plans for America and Russia to further cut their strategic nuclear warheads. During a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Obama renewed his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, and said the US would ultimately strive toward eliminating nuclear weapons, Xinhua reported. "After a ...

  • China and Russia’s Human Trafficking Leads to Sanctions

    Playing cards showing details of missing children are displayed in 2007 in Beijing, China. The cards showing photographs and information of 27 missing children were created by Shen Hao, the founder of a missing persons website to be handed out in areas notorious for child trafficking. China has just been put on a list of countries of serious concern for human trafficking. (China Photos/Getty ...

  • Iran Has No Plan to Sell Crude Oil to Russia

    Iranian Oil Ministry spokesman Alireza Nikzad-Rahbar has said Iran has not been in talks with Russia for the sale of crude oil to its northern neighbour, ISNA reported. Referring to some news which has been published by some media outlets, Nikzad-Rahbar said that there is basically no infrastructure for transferring crude oil from southern Iran to the Caspian Sea. On Tuesday, the Mehr ...

Movie Review

Jawbreaker

Ten years after the release of Michael Lehmann's stinging teen satire "Heathers" (1989) comes "Jawbreaker," an inferior retread of the same material that is more outrageous, but less clever, acted with less charisma, and lacking in the former's biting sense of black humor. The events that transpire in "Jawbreaker" squeak out a strained laugh here and there, but overall it smells of something tryin ... ...

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  • Mass Disorder Plotting Case

    Russian prosecutors have charged opposition activists Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev with plotting mass riots during a demonstration in Moscow last May, their lawyers said on ...

  • Long-Lost Soviet Holocaust Films Under New Spotlight

    WASHINGTON, June 19 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – Nearly a dozen long-lost, rarely seen Soviet films and scores of screenplays that were never produced about the persecution of Jews during World War II have been revived to offer decades-old evidence of a side of the Holocaust few people recognize today. From the dusty archives of Moscow and elsewhere across Russia, the works are ...

  • Russian Opposition Figures Charged with Plotting Mass Riots

    MOSCOW, June 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian prosecutors have charged opposition activists Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev with plotting mass riots during a demonstration in Moscow last May, their lawyers said on ...

  • Russia-linked Firm Develops Video App to Help Solve Crime in US

    WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – The US affiliate of a Russian software company has developed a database for the city of Baltimore that would help its police department track down private surveillance video that could solve crimes, an executive from EastBanc Technologies’ (EBT) Washington office said Wednesday. "We’ve almost completed development of a database ...

  • US condemns China Russia and Uzbekistan for human trafficking

    Uzbeks work in fields outside Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which has been criticised for 'subjecting its citizens to forced labour'. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/AFP/Getty ...

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