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13.10.2010, 16:23
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The 23-year-old head of a controversial Russian drug clinic has been sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for abducting addicts and forcing them into rehabilitation.
25.10.2010, 23:45
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Two Israeli soldiers are awaiting sentencing after being convicted of using a Palestinian child as a human shield during the Gaza war.
07.03.2009, 15:27
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Thirty years after the Islamic Revolution Iran may once more become an American ally. All the US need to do to achieve this is to invite Tehran to an international conference on Afghanistan in March.
28.12.2009, 08:34
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A year after Israel's devastating operation in Gaza, Palestinians are mourning its victims. The war claimed the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, according to human rights groups on both sides, and 13 Israelis.
05.10.2009, 14:44
Over the years, relations between India and Pakistan have been marred by military conflict and territorial disputes. Daily fighting still continues on the border, but it has become a popular tourist attraction.
05.02.2010, 04:32
A New York court has found Pakistan-born scientist Aafia Siddiqui guilty of trying to kill her American interrogators in Afghanistan in 2008.
05.02.2010, 17:37
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Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to the use of any types of weapons of mass destruction against it or any of its allies. President Medvedev has approved Russia’s new military doctrine.
20.07.2010, 10:40
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The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry has sent an official note of protest to the US State Department after American agents detained a Russian citizen in Liberia and secretly transported him to the United States.
14.08.2009, 09:45
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The US is negotiating a deal to build seven military bases in Colombia to fight the war on drugs. RT spoke to Eva Golinger, an attorney and author, who believes the decision is more than just to prevent drug trafficking.
16.06.2010, 16:24
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At a weekly media briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Andrey Nesterenko focused on adoption of UN Security Council resolution on Iran, the situation in Kyrgyzstan and other issues.
Published: 21 October, 2009, 14:10
Edited: 23 October, 2009, 10:50
President Obama's administration's still ruminating over whether or not to send more troops into Afghanistan. Investigative journalist Gerald Posner spoke to RT about al-Qaeda and the Taliban's latest weapon.
Why, then, is the American government essentially protecting the harvesting of heroin poppies in Afghanistan? Under the Taliban, those poppy fields were all eradicated, yet under the US occupation, they are multiplying almost TACTICALLY. Might it have something to do with US strategy? Might the profits from the drug trade be pocketed (or at the least coordinated ) by the US military and intelligence?