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BUCKWILD Show Will Live On In Davy Crockett Territory

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Substitute some cow dung and meth for mud … and you have a reincarnated version of “Buckwild” … the new (more…)

Baby Box Drop off point for unwanted babies

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A box in which parents can leave their babies anonymously without any legal risk has opened in a town in northwestern Russia – a move that activists hope will save many young lives. The baby box at the hospital in Kirishi, an industrial town 100km east of St Petersburg, is the 10th such facility in Russia. Experts think that’s just a fraction of More >

Tensions are growing after Turkey military vote

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Turkey  launched retaliatory strikes on Syrian targets as its parliament authorised further military action, but Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the decision was not a mandate for war. The two moves suggested that Turkey is preparing to take a more aggressive stance against Syria in the wake of an incident on Wednesday in which mortar More >

Russian oil rig stormed by Greenpeace activists

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GREENPEACE activists have been offered hot soup, then sprayed with blasts of cold water after storming a floating Russia oil platform and erected climbing tents on the side of the rig to protest drilling in the Arctic. The six activists, who include Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo, are hanging off the side of the Prirazlomnaya platform More >

Masked gunmen wound eight in Russian mosque

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Masked gunmen have burst into a mosque in the troubled Russian Caucasus region of Dagestan, wounding eight. “The number of wounded in the shooting at the mosque in the town of Khasavyurt has risen to eight,” the interior ministry said after two unidentified gunmen shot at worshippers in the Shi’ite mosque on Saturday night as Muslims celebrated More >

UK warned by Russia against violations in Assange affair

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Russia on Friday warned Britain against violating fundamental diplomatic principles after London suggested it could arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside Ecuador’s embassy. “What is happening gives grounds to contemplate the observance of the spirit and the letter of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and in particular the More >

UN discord on Syria China puts blame on the West

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CHINA has accused some Western countries of seeking regime change in Syria and blamed their increasing support for rebel forces in the civil war there as hurting the solidarity of the UN Security Council. The remarks in the official People’s Daily newspaper on Wednesday came as China hosted an envoy of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for talks. More >

Russia harshly criticised new US sanctions on Iran

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MOSCOW—Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Monday harshly criticised new U.S. sanctions on Iran, calling them “undisguised blackmail” and warning that relations between Washington and Moscow would suffer if Russian companies were affected. On Friday, President Barack Obama signed into law new sanctions on Iran’s energy, shipping and financial industries More >

Russia says UN resolution on Syria blatant support for rebels

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RUSSIA has blasted a UN General Assembly resolution on Syria, calling it “blatant” support for rebel groups battling President Bashar al-Assad.

Russia‘s UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, said the main backers of the resolution, overwhelmingly passed by the UN assembly, was providing “mercenaries and arms” to the Syrian opposition.

Churkin said the More >

President Putin regrets NATO’s plan to leave Afghanistan

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MOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is supporting the NATO mission in Afghanistan by providing a transit hub and isn’t happy about the alliance’s planned withdrawal.

Moscow has provided the U.S. and other NATO member states with air corridors and railway routes for carrying supplies to and from landlocked Afghanistan. Under More >

US accused of justifying terror by Russia

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RUSSIA has lashed out at the US for backing the armed opposition to the Syrian regime, saying Washington’s failure to condemn the July 18 blast that killed top security officials meant it was justifying terror.

“This is quite an awful position, I cannot even find the words to make clear how we feel,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told More >

The US have denied arming Syrian opposition

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THE US has denied Russia’s claim that it is arming Syria’s opposition and expressed new concern over what it says is Moscow’s supply of attack helicopters to Damascus.

“We do not and have not supplied weapons to the Syrian opposition. You know our position on that and we have made it very clear,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said More >

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