http://mnweekly.ru/ Moscow News eng Moscow News http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090130/55365430.html World Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:10 +0300 WASHINGTON (AP) - Among the pressing questions swirling at the dawn of the Obama administration: Will Michelle and Barack Obama's Friday date nights survive? >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090129/55365427.html World Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:57:53 +0300 WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - U.S. officials took possession Wednesday of an MP3 player that a New Zealand man found held 60 U.S. military files, including names and telephone numbers of American soldiers, the man said. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090129/55365424.html World Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:56:12 +0300 CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio firefighter says he's quitting a marching band after he was suspended from the group for nodding and waving to President Barack Obama during last week's inauguration parade. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090129/55365419.html World Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:19:15 +0300 LONDON (AP) - Britain's News of the World tabloid says Chelsy Davy announced the end of her relationship with Prince Harry by changing her status on Facebook to: "Relationship: Not in One." >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090129/55365413.html World Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:09:13 +0300 BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union promised billions of dollars in aid to the world's poorest nations on Wednesday to entice them to sign a new global climate change pact. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090129/55365299.html World Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:14:00 +0300 MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico City wants to turn one of the planet's biggest and messiest waste management systems into the greenest in Latin America, if not the developing world. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090122/55364672.html World Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:48:00 +0300 "War is too serious a matter to entrust to the generals," warned Georges Clemenceau, the French statesman. But that seems to be exactly what the beleaguered Israeli Prime Minister Elmud Olmert sanctioned when he opened the Gaza can of worms on December 21. >> http://mnweekly.ru/politics/20090122/55364598.html Politics Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:51:00 +0300 VIENNA, Austria (AP) - It was just a scribble in the snow. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090122/55364557.html World Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:46:19 +0300 ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi, one of the biggest per capita producers of greenhouse gases in the world, outlined a plan Monday to generate 7 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources in just over a decade. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090115/55364107.html World Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:23:32 +0300 MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) - Israel is provoking Islamic movements with its baseless, politically motivated military campaign in Gaza, the Palestinian ambassador to Russia said on Wednesday. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090115/55364101.html World Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:22:22 +0300 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Russian warship helped foil a pirate attack on a Dutch container ship in the dangerous Gulf of Aden, a maritime watchdog and the Russian navy said Wednesday. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090115/55364098.html World Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:21:01 +0300 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A top Afghan army general was killed Thursday in a helicopter crash in western Afghanistan, and two British troops died in a blast in the country's south, officials said. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090115/55364089.html World Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:18:00 +0300 ATLANTA - Thirty years after engineering the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, former President Jimmy Carter is still doggedly seeking peace in the Middle East. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20090115/55363963.html World Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:27:21 +0300 WASHINGTON (AP) - The US Senate has advanced legislation that would set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as wilderness. Majority Democrats assembled more than enough votes to overcome GOP stalling tactics in an early showdown for the new Congress. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20081225/55362837.html World Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:16:00 +0300 JERUSALEM - One of Israel's oldest West Bank settlements was largely built on private Palestinian land in violation of the government's own rules for sanctioned construction, and should be dismantled immediately, an Israeli human rights group said Monday. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20081225/55362834.html World Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:15:00 +0300 BAGA BEACH, India - Beach beds are lined up outside the snack bars dotting the sandy white coastline and dance music booms from bars and restaurants. The only thing missing from Goa's beaches are the throngs of merrymakers who normally flock here for the hedonistic year-end parties. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20081225/55362831.html World Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:13:48 +0300 Police: Man set up dental office in his kitchen >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20081225/55362828.html World Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:12:00 +0300 CHICAGO (AP) - Tom Waltz, his wife, Kristina, and their two daughters played a Christmas Eve game of Crazy Eights in a corner at O'Hare International Airport, trying to forget the past four days of flight delays and cancellations that spoiled their holiday plans. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20081225/55362775.html World Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:33:00 +0300 EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A statewide program to recycle old computer monitors and TV sets is set to begin in Oregon, but one agency in the electronics salvage business says encouraging reuse of the gear would be a better idea. >> http://mnweekly.ru/world/20081225/55362772.html World Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:32:33 +0300 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - City buses got stuck in snow, parts of major highways were closed, and traffic slowed to crawl as the Portland area - which rarely gets a significant snowstorm - struggled Monday to cope with one of its worst in years. >>