Russia’s foreign minister says Moscow doesn’t understand why North Korea has suggested that Moscow and other countries close their embassies in Pyongyang, and he says he’s concerned about the high tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Minister Sergey Lavrov was quoted Friday during a visit to Uzbekistan as saying that Russia is in touch with China, the United...
An Australian man wearing nothing but a sun hat risked his life to win a bet by paddling across a crocodile-infested river on a log.
Egged on by his friends, the man stripped off, grabbed a stick to use as an oar and paddled across the Northern Territory’s dangerous Daly River.
Despite being watched by the river’s scaly razor-toothed inhabitants, the naked...
A road accident in Iran has killed 18 people after a truck smuggling fuel slammed into a sedan packed with Afghans who were being brought illegally into the country.
The semiofficial Fars news agency says the crash took place on Friday morning on the outskirts of the town of Rigan in southeastern Iran.
Fifteen of the dead were Afghan citizens who had illegally crossed...
A new study has claimed the vast construction of solar farms around the globe has used so much fossil fuel they will not contribute any ‘real’ energy to the world until 2020.
TheStanfordUniversitystudy analysed the fossil fuels used in the construction of solar panel.
It found the panels have only just begun to surpass the amount of energy ploughed into created...
A family of five set themselves alight in a desperate final protest against the demolition of their home.
Bharat Mansingh, 40, died in hospital after self-immolating in the centre of a local authority compound in the city ofRajkotinnorth westIndiatoday.
Three of his females relatives, Rekha, Asha, Vasumati and one male relative Girish Mansingh have all been taken to hospital...
French troops will take part in a future U.N. peacekeeping mission inMaliafter they end their task of clearing al-Qaida-linked rebels out ofMali’s vast northern region.
French President Francois Hollande made the announcement Thursday as he spoke beforeMorocco’s parliament, part of a two-day visit celebrating the two nations’ close cooperation.
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The parties discussed possibilities of the prospective and long-term cooperation in the economic area, including cooperation in the energy sphere. They underscored the importance of the economic element in the continuous deepening and strengthening of the relations between the two strategic partners – the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation. According to the...
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