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  • Friend of Boston bombers had confessed to 2011 triple murders claims FBI Friend of Boston bombers had confessed to 2011 triple murders claims FBI

    NEW YORK A Chechen acquaintance of dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has confessed to slashing the throats of three people in a 2011 gruesome triple murder, federal law enforcement officials have said. Ibragim Todashev, who made the confession, was killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law ...

  • EU regulators seek tax transparency from companies

    The European Commission said Thursday that it is working on a proposal to require corporate giants with operations in the European Union to publicly report profits, taxes paid and subsidies received on a country-by-country basis. Representatives of the 27 member-states agreed to seek ways to prevent multinationals from avoiding their obligations by channeling profits through subsidiaries in ...

  • Russia keen to help India establish 16 more nuke power plants Envoy

    Russia's Ambassador to India Alexander M Kadakin has said that his country is ready to help India establish 16 nuclear power generating stations. Welcoming the Supreme Court of India's green signal to the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), Ambassador Kadakin said: "It (apex court verdict) was a good development, and also the cabinet clearance for ministry, and so forth, was ...

  • On US request Russian arms dealer held in Lithuania

    Lithuanian security services have arrested a Russian national at the request of the US Justice Department, which suspects him of smuggling export-restricted military equipment. Dmitry Ustinov, 46, was detained over a month ago at Vilnius airport in Lithuania, after he arrived from the US to allegedly negotiate a sales deal for night vision equipment used by the US military, the Delfi news ...

  • New oral diarrhea vaccine shows promising results in phase I-study

    A novel oral, inactivated Escherichia coli diarrhea vaccine has been developed in Sweden and a clinical phase I-study of this vaccine has now been successfully completed. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria are the primary cause of diarrhea in children living in low and middle income countries result in 400 million diarrheal episodes and approximately 300 000 deaths among children ...

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Did Gene Roddenberry know? Did he have any idea what he was unleashing when he created "Star Trek," a sci-fi TV series that started in 1966 and was canceled after three years of dismal ratings? Did he understand the implications of his actions, that hordes of die-hard fans would devote their lives to his personal vision of a better future? Did he know it would create an entire subculture that is ... ...

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  • Utrecht a step nearer to European football

    FC Utrecht beat Twente 2-0 on Thursday night in the first leg of their battle for a place in the Europa League preliminary rounds. The second leg takes place on Sunday at home, but Utrecht will be without captain Nana Asare, who was given a second yellow card in last night's match. Meanwhile, Deventer club Go Ahead Eagles are a step nearer moving up to the premier division after beating ...

  • Russias top social network banned by regulator

    /enpproperty--> MOSCOW - Russia's top online social network, VKontakte, has been put on a 'black list' that bans it from distributing content in the country, according to a posting on the web site of the national communications regulator on Friday. VKontakte has 210 million registered users, of whom 47 million log on daily. Founder Pavel Durov fled Russia last month after ...

  • 8.2 quake off Russia coast sparks tsunami scare

    Earthquake measuring 5.7 strikes northwest Pakistan A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck off Russia's eastern coast on Friday, briefly prompting a tsunami scare but causing no casualties or substantial damage, Russian emergency authorities said. The epicentre of the quake was located at a depth of 620 km in the Sea of Okhotsk, 390 km west of the nearest city, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the US ...

  • Tsunami warning in Russias Far East after earthquake

    earthquake has hit Russia's Far East with slight tremors spreading westwards as far as Moscow. Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said on Friday the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered 8.0 on the Richter scale. Emergency agencies in the Far East ...

  • Russia’s Sakhalin region rattled by 8.2 quake Moscow hit by aftershocks

    Natural disasters Russian authorities have lifted a tsunami warning for the Sakhalin region and Kuril Islands following a strong 8.2-magnitude earthquake that rattled the Sea of Okhotsk. The aftershocks were felt as far away as Moscow, over 9,000 kilometers away. Moscow residents called security services, informing them of vibration and tremors that caused furniture and kitchen utensils to ...

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