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Three-man international crew safely reaches space station

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ALMATY - A Russian Soyuz spaceship safely delivered a three-man international crew, including Denmark's first astronaut, to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, a day after having had to maneuver to avoid colliding with space debris. | Video

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Russia says Syria's Assad ready to share power

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is ready to hold snap parliamentary elections and could share power with a "healthy" opposition.

World, Syria 04 Sep 2015

Chinese ships headed home after Bering Sea sighting: U.S. Navy

WASHINGTON - Five Chinese Navy ships sighted in the Bering Sea off Alaska during a visit to the region by U.S. President Barack Obama have begun their "return transit," the U.S. Navy's top uniformed officer told Reuters on Thursday.

World, 04 Sep 2015

Putin urges investment in Russia's vast Far East

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - President Vladimir Putin urged domestic and foreign investors on Friday to help develop Russia's vast Far East region, promising high returns and reassuring Asia-Pacific economies about their strategic importance.

World, 04 Sep 2015

On Arctic tip of Europe, Syrian migrants reach Norway by bike

OSLO - Some Syrian refugees have found a cheaper, safer, though much more roundabout way of reaching Europe than crossing the Mediterranean -- heading to the Arctic Circle and entering Norway from Russia, sometimes even by bicycle.

World, Migrant Crisis, Syria, Norway 03 Sep 2015

U.S. sanctions Russia's state-owned arms exporter Rosoboronexport

WASHINGTON - The United States has imposed sanctions on Russian and Chinese companies, including Russian state-owned arms exporter Rosoboronexport, for violating a U.S. law restricting weapons trade with Iran, North Korea and Syria.

World, United Nations 03 Sep 2015

Ford opens $275 million engine plant in Russia

MOSCOW - U.S. carmaker Ford's Russian venture, Ford Sollers, opened a $275 million engine plant on Thursday, which will help make its Russian-produced vehicles less dependent on imported components and currency fluctuations.

03 Sep 2015

Putin's China visit fails to snag major project financing

BEIJING/MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China produced a clutch of new deals on Thursday, but failed to secure funding for vital infrastructure projects, underscoring the limits to a relationship Moscow casts as a counterweight to the West.

World, China, 03 Sep 2015

Nordic, Baltic states call on Russia to release Estonian policeman

COPENHAGEN - Nordic and Baltic foreign ministers, meeting in Copenhagen on Thursday, called on Russia to immediately release an Estonian policeman who they say was "abducted" from his country and jailed for 15 years in a case that violated international law.

World, 03 Sep 2015

Russia delays start of U.N. probe of Syria gas attacks: envoys

UNITED NATIONS - Russia is delaying the launch of an international investigation aimed at assigning blame for chemical weapon attacks in Syria, U.N. Security Council diplomats said on Wednesday, though Moscow's U.N. envoy said the holdup was for technical reasons.

World, United Nations, Syria 02 Sep 2015

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Migrants stream into Austria, swept west by overwhelmed Hungary

HEGYESHALOM, Hungary - Hundreds of exhausted migrants streamed into Austria on Saturday, reaching the border on buses provided by an overwhelmed Hungarian government that gave up trying to hold back crowds that had set out on foot for western Europe.

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