World powers struggled on Wednesday to show a united front over Iran’s nuclear drive, fearing Tehran will exploit any split to forge ahead with uranium enrichment. ”I would have thought that this is the time for the world to send a clear and united message to the Iranian regime,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in London as diplomats gathered in Moscow.
Russia on Wednesday attacked Iran’s claim to have enriched uranium on its own, calling the announcement ”a step in the wrong direction” and demanding that the Islamic republic immediately suspend all uranium enrichment work, news agencies reported. ”We believe this is a step in the wrong direction,” foreign ministry spokesperson Mikhail Kamynin said.
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/ 23 February 2006
At least 38 people were killed and 29 injured on Thursday when the snow-laden roof of an indoor market in Moscow collapsed, said Artyom Bibilurov, a spokesperson for the emergency situations ministry. Hours after the roof collapsed, fire appeared to have broken out in the ruins.
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/ 10 February 2006
Finance chiefs from the world’s leading industrial nations kick off two days of discussions in Moscow on Friday focused squarely on mounting Western concern over the Kremlin’s swelling clout in world oil and gas markets. Taking its first turn at the helm of the Group of Eight, Russia has set a diverse agenda for the meeting.
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/ 18 January 2006
Twenty-four people froze to death in western Russia and Moscow switched to a ”strict” energy conservation regime on Wednesday as overnight temperatures plunged below minus 30 degrees Celsius in the capital and to substantially colder levels elsewhere in the country.
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/ 31 January 2005
Russia pledged its ”active” support on Monday for visiting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas amid growing signs of a revival in the long-dormant Middle East peace process. Abbas said Moscow will play a decisive role in restarting the Israeli-Palestinian talks.
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/ 8 September 2004
Russia warned on Wednesday it could launch pre-emptive strikes on terror bases anywhere in the world and put a bounty on two top Chechen rebels after the broadcast of a chilling video of the school hostage siege. ”We will take steps to liquidate terror bases in any region” in the world, Russian Chief of Staff General Yury Baluyevsky said.