Israeli military killed 12 Arabs, including a child, and wounded at least 220 when they tried to storm a ceasefire line on Sunday marking 44 years of the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War, the Syrian state television said. At midday, a small group of young Palestinian and Syrian demonstrators breached the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria [...]
Archives: 05 June 2011
June 5, 2011
June 5, 2011
China received $650 bln of direct foreign investment in 10 years
Direct foreign investment in China totaled $653 billion in the 2001-2010 period, the country’s statistics agency said on Sunday. Yao Jingyuan, head of the National Bureau of Statistics, said direct foreign investment in the economy grew by 9.5% a year on average, Xinhua news agency said. In 2010, China, the world’s second largest economy, received [...]
June 5, 2011
Ratko Mladic transferred from prison hospital to cell
Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic who is facing war crimes charges in The Hague, has been transferred from a prison hospital to a cell, his lawyer Milos Saljic said on Sunday. Mladic, 68, was arrested in Serbia on May 26 after 16 years on the run. He was later extradited to The Hague [...]
June 5, 2011
Main news of June 5
WORLD * Yemen’s Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi assumed the role of acting president and supreme commander of the armed forces, Al Jazeera reported citing anonymous sources *Israeli military killed 12 Arabs, including a child, and wounded at least 220 when they tried to storm a ceasefire line marking 44 years of the Six-Day Arab-Israeli [...]
June 5, 2011
Jerusalem status can be defined after border demarcation
The status of Jerusalem can be defined only after the borders between Israel and Palestine are demarcated and the refugee issue is resolved, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday. “There will be no solution (to resolving the status of Jerusalem) without the border demarcation and the resolution of the refugee problem,” Lavrov said. [...]
June 5, 2011
Russia, Ukraine reach breakthrough in sea border talks
Russia and Ukraine have reached a breakthrough in their talks on maritime border delimitation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday. “A qualitative breakthrough has been achieved on the issue of the Kerch Strait. We have reached fundamental understanding with the Ukrainian leadership on how to resolve this problem,” Lavrov said in an interview [...]
June 5, 2011
Russia’s Urals arms depot blasts leave 95 people injured
The number of people injured in blasts that shook an ammunition depot in Russia’s Urals republic of Udmurtia has risen to 95 people, the republican health ministry said on Sunday. “A total of 95 people have applied for medical assistance, of whom 45 have been hospitalized, including 15 persons with injuries of various degree of [...]
June 5, 2011
Gaza authorities ban Palestinians from approaching Israel border
GAZA/TEL AVIV, June 5 (RIA Novosti) – Police in Gaza had to set up checkpoints on the border with Israel on Sunday to prevent Palestinian demonstrators marking the 1967 Six-Day War anniversary from clashing with Israeli military, Palestinian media said. Several hundred Palestinian demonstrators tried to break through toward the northern border between Gaza and [...]
June 5, 2011
Russia Warns Over NATO Intervention In Libya
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov has warned that NATO’s Libya campaign is “one step” away from sending in ground troops to assist antigovernment forces battling Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. Ivanov, speaking at an Asian forum on June 5, criticized the expansion of military intervention in Libya, saying that while Moscow initially supported the move [...]
June 5, 2011
June 5, 2011
Dormant volcano erupts in Chile, thousands evecuated
A dormant volcano has erupted in southern Chile, forcing authorities to order evacuation of thousands of local residents, the BBC reported on Sunday. Local witnesses describe large columns of smoke rising from the Puyehue-Cordon-Caulle volcano range about 800 kilometers (500 miles) south of the Chilean capital, Santiago. The authorities have not received reports of any [...]
June 5, 2011
Russia’s Urals arms depot blasts injure 91 people
The number of people injured in blasts that shook an ammunition depot in Russia’s Urals republic of Udmurtia has risen to 91 people, the Emergencies Ministry aid on Sunday. “As many as 91 people have applied for medical assistance, of whom 37 have been hospitalized and five have been discharged from hospital,” the ministry said. [...]
June 5, 2011
Moscow alarmed over NATO’s disproportionate use of force in Libya – vice
Moscow is alarmed over NATO’s disproportionate use of force in Libya and the alliance’s clear support for one side in the Libyan conflict, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Sunday. Moscow is concerned “over increasingly frequent disproportionate use of military force in the country where the nature and the parameters of interference from [...]
June 5, 2011
Japan’s PM likely to step down by August
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is likely to leave his post by this August, the Kyodo news agency said on Saturday. “Some media reports make it seem as if (Mr. Kan) wants to stick around longer, but I’m sure that isn’t his intention,” Yukio Edano, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, told reporters in Tokyo. Japan’s opposition [...]