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Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks focusing on the situation in Syria, amid concerns that Moscow could soon provide Damascus with advanced missiles.Israeli officials have asked Russia to stop what they say is an imminent delivery of Russian S-300 air defense systems to Syria. Putin told Netanyahu at the start of their meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi Tuesday that they would have a chance to talk about Syria. Neither leader mentioned the missiles in brief opening remarks.Russia has continued to ship weapons to Syria despite the civil war there, but it so far has refrained from providing Damascus with the S-300s, a powerful weapon that has a range of up to 200 kilometers (125 miles)....
In April, at the end of another seemingly endless winter, most Russians are eager to get rid of the piles of snow that have clogged their cities and streets and yard...
Bulgarian police say bus with Israeli tourists has caught fire at airport in Black Sea city.
Residents of a town under siege by the Roman army about 2,000 years ago buried two hoards of treasure in the town's citadel — treasure recently excavated by archaeol...
President Vladimir Putin has attended a military exercise in the Black Sea intended to showcase Russia's resurgent military might.Putin ordered the conduct of the ma...
A House hearing on Hezbollah as a global terrorist threat coupled with Thursday's prison sentence of a Hezbollah member — the first in a European court — brings into...
Liz MacDonald, Jim Norton and Michael Moynihan discuss Greek soccer player getting a lifetime ban for Nazi salute
A U.N. agency says shark populations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea "have dropped dramatically" over the past two centuries because of overfishing.A study releas...
The Obama administration pulled back on plans to give an award to an Egyptian activist after anti-American and anti-Semitic messages were discovered on her Twitter a...
The State Department has canceled the award it planned to give an Egyptian activist whose Twitter account included virulently anti-American and anti-Semitic statemen...
Mats of algae and seaweed have shrouded the once thick coral in shallow reefs off Jamaica's north coast. Warm ocean waters have bleached out the coral, and in a casc...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's rock-music-loving president hosted Bono, the frontman of the Irish band U2 , at his resplendent residence near the Black Sea resort of Sochi o...
MOSCOW (AP) — The Olympic flag has been hoisted in Sochi, the Russian Black Sea resort that will host the nation's first Winter Games in 2014.The Olympic and Paralym...
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Japan's prime minister says his country has learned lessons from the Fukushima disaster and will offer the "highest level of safety" in building Turkey's second nucl...
Annisa's chef Anita Lo talks about "Iron Chef" and how she slices up Black Sea Bass Sashimi.
The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a surprise military exercise in the Black Sea.News agencies quoted his spokesman Dmitry Peskov as sayin...
With more than 30 marathons being held this weekend alone and big events on the horizon, officials around the world are boosting security efforts in the wake of the ...
During a meeting in a Black Sea resort city, Egypt's president and members of his government turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked for a sizable loan,...
The organizers of the World Athletics Championship in Moscow say they will beef up security in the wake of deadly explosions at the finish line of the Boston Maratho...