Main news of May 14

WORLD

*Greece will send a humanitarian aid ship to Libyan rebel’s stronghold of Benghazi, Greek Foreign Minister, Dimitris Droutsas said on Saturday.

*A Belarusian court sentenced on Saturday a former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov to five years in prison for organizing mass unrest.

*Britain and France are seeking to impose a EU travel ban and asset freeze on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and four officials, close to him, Syrian D-press news web site reported on Saturday

*Iranian Bushehr nuclear plant operates in safe and secure condition, ISNA news agency quoted on Saturday the Head of Iranian nuclear safety system center Naser Rastkhah as saying.

*Opposition in Yemen has announced it would start a week of decisive actions seeking to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Al-Jazeera said on Saturday

*The last two operating reactors of Japan’s Hamaoka nuclear power plant were shut on Saturday down over fears of a major earthquake

RUSSIA

*The creation of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin-backed nationwide People’s Front is not an electoral move of the ruling United Russia party, but a part of a long-term program, United Russia leader and lower house speaker Boris Gryzlov said on Saturday

*Russia’s Space Forces commander said on Saturday that a new radar being built near the Baltic port of Kaliningrad would be tested by the end of the year

*Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent a letter to the Russia-NATO Council asking for guarantees that the European missile defense project would be safe for Russia, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday

 

 

 

 

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