The final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, scheduled for Monday, has been postponed again as NASA specialists have failed to fix technical problems with the spacecraft’s engine compartment, the U.S. space agency said. No date for a new launch attempt has been set, but NASA said it would not take place before the end [...]
Archives: 01 May 2011
May 1, 2011
May 1, 2011
Russia defeats Slovenia 6-4 at ice hockey worlds
The Russian national ice hockey team defeated Slovenia 6-4 in its second match at the World Ice Hockey Championship on Bratislava’s Orange Arena on Sunday. Russia’s Vitali Atyushov scored the first goal on the fifth minute of the match, followed by Maxim Afinogenov on the 36th, Dmitri Kulikov and Yevgeni Artyukhin on the 47th, Alexander [...]
May 1, 2011
Israel freezes cash transfer to Palestinians
The Israeli government announced on Sunday that it would hold up an $89 million cash transfer to the Palestinian Authority because of a reconciliation deal between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, regional media reported. “Israel wants assurances that any money transferred to the Palestinians will not reach the militant Hamas organisation, which is set [...]
May 1, 2011
Thousands gather for May Day demonstrations across Russia
Thousands gather for May Day demonstrations across Russia 23:48 01/05/2011 About 52,000 residents of Russia’s Far Eastern Primorye Territory took part in demonstrations marking Spring and Labor Day, or May Day, in the local administrative center of Vladivostok.
May 1, 2011
Main news of May 1
RUSSIA * Russia has celebrated a national holiday, Spring and Labor Day, with trade unions and political parties holding rallies across the country * Russia doubts the statements by the NATO coalition that NATO airstrikes are not targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said * The Russian national ice hockey team [...]
May 1, 2011
Syrian army says 499 protesters arrested in Deraa
Syrian security forces have arrested 499 people during a six-day operation in the southern city of Deraa, the local Sana news agency said, quoting military sources. The report carried by Sana said that 10 members of “armed terrorist groups” have been killed in the operation. Deraa remains under siege by the Syrian army since Monday, [...]
May 1, 2011
Dagestan police office chief killed
A police chief in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan was killed on Sunday, investigators reported. “The chief of the police office in the Sergokala District, Nasrula Magomedov, was shot from unidentified automatic weapons in the yard of his house. He died of wounds,” a spokesman for investigators said. Criminal proceedings have been launched. [...]
May 1, 2011
Russian MP lashes at NATO’s Gaddafi-targeted air strike
A NATO air strike in Tripoli, which Libyan authorities say killed a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was aimed at Gaddafi’s physical destruction, a member of the Russian parliament said on Sunday. Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the State Duma international committee, said in an interview with RIA Novosti that the NATO operation in Libya [...]
May 1, 2011
Russia doubts statement that NATO not targeting Libya’s Gaddafi
Russia doubts the statements by the NATO coalition that NATO airstrikes are not targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. “Moscow perceives with growing alarm the reports about victims among civilians. The statements by the coalition members that the airstrikes against Libya are not aimed at physically destroying Muammar Gaddafi [...]
May 1, 2011
Ukrainian Communists call for referendum on domestic, foreign policy issues
The Ukrainian Communist Party proposed on Sunday holding a referendum on various issues of the Ukrainian government’s domestic and foreign policies, the local Unian news agency said. Speaking during a meeting in the capital, Kiev, marking the International Workers’ Day, Communist leader Petro Symonenko said the issue of the country’s cooperation with the International Monetary [...]
May 1, 2011
Russian journalist beaten in northern Moscow
Moscow police are considering opening a criminal case into the beating of a journalist working with Russian business radio station Kommersant FM, a local police spokesman said on Sunday. Dmitry Andryushchenko was attacked and beaten in northern Moscow late on Saturday following an argument with one of the attackers. Andryushchenko told RIA Novosti that the [...]
May 1, 2011
May Day marches in Moscow took place without incidents
No major incidents were registered in Moscow during demonstrations marking the Labor Day, a local police spokesman said. In Soviet times May 1 was celebrated in Russia as International Workers’ Day and saw massive Communist Party rallies. In 1992, the name was changed to Spring and Labor Day but it still remains a national holiday. [...]
May 1, 2011
Libyan ambassador expelled from Britain after embassy attack
The British authorities made a decision on Sunday to expel the Libyan ambassador to London following an attack on the British embassy in Tripoli by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Media reports said on Sunday that pro-Gaddafi crowds had attacked several foreign embassies in Tripoli earlier in the day, including those of Britain [...]
May 1, 2011
Hundreds Of Thousands Attend May Day Rallies Worldwide
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world attended May Day rallies today. In Russia, hundreds of thousands took to the streets for May Day rallies, with pro-government demonstrations organized by pro-Kremlin parties and trade unions. In Ukraine, the Communist Party brought nearly 5,000 supporters to the streets in the capital, Kyiv. France’s five major [...]