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It is unusual to sum up the results of the...

It is unusual to sum up the results of the year in January but some people have calculated that this year China will overtake Japan, becoming the world"s second biggest economy after the United States. Arthur Kroeber, managing director of the Beijing-based company Dragonomics, has just made a statement to this effect. This forecast was already made in the fall but this time Kroeber is backing it up with statistics.


MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Defense Ministry is preparing a response to a U.S. revision of its missile shield plans in Central Europe, the Russian defense minister said on Thursday.


Four militants were killed in a special...

Four militants were killed in a special police operation in the mountainous south of Chechnya, in Russia"s North Caucasus, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said on Thursday.

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UN secretary general has set off for a tour...

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon together with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and the Quartet"s special representative Tony Blair met for the Middle East Quartet of international mediators in Moscow on Friday.

Farhan Haq said Ban is expected to meet over the weekend with the president and prime minister of Israel, the Palestinian premier as well as to visit Gaza to evaluate the humanitarian situation in the region.

The Quartet condemned recent plans by Israeli to build 1,600 housing units for Jewish families in the disputed area of East Jerusalem and demanded that all settlement activity be frozen.

"The Quartet urges the government of Israel to freeze all settlement activity, including natural growth, dismantle outposts erected since March 2001 and to refrain from demolitions and evictions in East Jerusalem," Ban said.

Chief Palestinian presidential advisor Sahib Oreikat

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