US robots, Israeli drones to help make 2014 World Cup in Brazil 'one of safes...
19 May 2013 at 1:50pm
Brazil has added 30 US military robots to the Israeli drones and 'Robocop-style' glasses with face recognition cameras to its arsenal after the country allocated $900 million to make 2014 World Cup...

Austerity on the side: EU hits restaurateurs with olive oil law
19 May 2013 at 10:43am
As if European Union bureaucrats don?t have enough on their hands trying to extinguish financial fires raging across the broken continent, they?ve now decided to take their unlimited powers to the ...

Syria in frame: Netanyahu vows ?continued? protection of Israel against ?leak...
19 May 2013 at 10:10am
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting that he will prevent the transfer of weaponry to Hezbollah, implying Syria could be struck in the process. Fatal blasts battered Damascus in ...

'Turkey to see more bombings as Erdogan's support for Syrian rebels backfires'
19 May 2013 at 10:04am
Terrorist attacks on Turkish soil won?t stop until the country?s Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, gives up on his support of rebel forces in Syria, British broadcaster, Neil Clark, told RT.

Teargas and shots in air as Tunisian police clash with hundreds of Salafi pro...
19 May 2013 at 8:30am
A young protester has died and least 15 people injured, including 11 policemen, after Tunisian security forces clashed with Salafis who gathered despite the ban. Police fired teargas and shots into...

N. Korea fires 4th short-range missile in 2 days ? Seoul
19 May 2013 at 5:01am
North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan, a Seoul military official said, one day after firing three short-range guided missiles. Meanwhile, South Korea has deployed precis...

No swarms in space: DARPA axes $200mn ?fractionated sat? project
19 May 2013 at 3:51am
After spending more than $200 million, the Pentagon?s advanced research branch has decided to scrap one of its key space projects, System F6, which aimed to distribute functions of a big satellite ...

'Few Western powers really want solution': Assad skeptical about proposed Gen...
19 May 2013 at 1:45am
Syrian President Bashar Assad has welcomed the proposed peace talks for Syria agreed by Russia and the US, but voiced his skepticism about their prospects for success, saying that many forces don't...

Inequality surges in world?s richest countries, esp. in times of crisis
19 May 2013 at 12:48am
Not only has social inequality risen in the industrialized nations over the past three decades, the economic crisis of 2008-09 sped up the deterioration as ?pain of the crisis was not evenly shared...

Tehran ready to allow experts to Parchin in exchange for deal with IAEA ? Ira...
18 May 2013 at 8:05pm
Tehran is ready to explain every ?suspicious? point of the country?s nuclear program as well as allow experts to Parchin nuclear facility if the IAEA agrees to sign a protocol detailing all its que...

Plane with over 130 aboard catches fire on landing at Moscow?s Vnukovo airpor...
18 May 2013 at 5:54pm
A Boeing 737-400 passenger plane?s landing gear caught fire just after the landing at Moscow?s Vnukovo airport, prompting five firefighting vehicles to rush at the scene while the staff evacuated t...

Up to 60 injured after car crashes into crowd at Virginia parade
18 May 2013 at 4:05pm
Dozens of people have been injured after a 1997 Cadillac plowed into a crowd at the Trail Days Parade in the US state of Virginia.

US 'unaware' of Russian missile shipments to Syria ? State Department
18 May 2013 at 3:29pm
Washington has distanced itself from US media speculation about alleged Russian sales of Yakhont missiles to the Syrian government. A US State Department spokesperson stated they have no "new" info...

Powerful blast hits Damascus, at least 3 dead
18 May 2013 at 3:21pm
A powerful explosion has hit Ruken al-Deen neighborhood in Damascus, killing at least three people in the latest blast to strike the Syrian capital.

Latvian authorities ?try to silence? journalist with criminal charges over co...
18 May 2013 at 3:16pm
A Latvian news reporter faces charges of inciting mass public disorder, after asking Riga residents if they intended to break a controversial new law. Andrey Khramtsov says officials are pursuing a...


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