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Communist Igor Dodon is leading mayoral elections in the Moldovan capital of in the Chisinau with 52 percent of the vote after 99 percent of the ballots have been counted.
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev will arrive in India on a one-day visit on Monday.
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.
Serbian President Boris Tadic announced on May 26 that Ratko Mladic, a former commander of Bosnian Serb army, was arrested after 16 years on the run from war crimes charges. Mladic is accused of playing a key role in the killing of thousands of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
Direct foreign investment in China totaled $653 billion in the 2001-2010 period, the country's statistics agency said on Sunday.
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.1
Israel declared Jerusalem to be its territory after the 1948
Arab-Israeli War. But according to international law, these territories
are considered occupied. Under the internationally agreed roadmap for
Middle East peace, Israel is obliged to freeze all settlement
construction activity since 2001 in the Palestinian territories.
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.
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.
Russia and Ukraine have reached a breakthrough in their talks on maritime border delimitation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.
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.3
The area affected by wildfires raging in Siberia has expanded from 22,036 hectares to 26,055 hectares in the past twenty-four hours, the Emergencies Ministry reported on Sunday.
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.6
The UN Security Council on Thursday voted in favor of a no-fly zone and air strikes against Gaddafi's forces. NATO is getting ready for a broad international effort to stop violence in Libya
Radiation levels remain within the norm in all districts of Russia's Far East, a spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said on Sunday.
The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 will have serious consequences for the global economy and nuclear energy.
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.
A dormant volcano has erupted in southern Chile, forcing authorities to order evacuation of thousands of local residents, the BBC reported on Sunday.