Russian President Vladimir Putin made the announcement at a meeting with Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Interior Ministry Troops Commander Viktor Zolotov, Federal Drug Control Service Director Viktor Ivanov and Federal Migration Service First Deputy Director Yekaterina Yegorova. He announces the creation of the National Guard on the basis of the Interior Ministry Troops.

Azerbaijan and the Armenian-backed breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday announced an immediate cease-fire after four days of intense fighting that had prompted fears of all-out war.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published on Sunday some 11.5 million documents revealing "the offshore links of some of the planet’s most prominent people".

Combined detachment of the International Mine Action Centre of the Russian Armed Forces started clearing roads to historical part and suburbs of Palmyra from mines the Russian Federation Defence Ministry reports.

Three boats carrying the first migrants being deported from Greece have arrived in Turkey on Monday as part of an EU plan aimed at easing mass migration to Europe.

Turkish national Alparslan Celik, who earlier confessed to killed the pilot parachuting from the Russian Su-24 aircraft downed over Syria, was detained in Turkey on suspicion of fraud, local media reported Friday.

A huge gas explosion has rocked the centre of Paris, destroying part of a residential building and sending smoke rising over the French capital.

The media have reported that the United States intends to evacuate the families of US military and civilian personnel from Turkey due to the high level of the terrorist threat. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova was asked to comment this information on April 1.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Security Council on improving Russia’s migration policy in the interests of protecting national security on March 31.

Huge bridge collapsed on Thursday onto pedestrians without warning in the Indian city of Kolkata. At least 21 people have been killed and some 150 are feared trapped after a flyover collapsed onto moving traffic, authorities said.

Poland’s state Institute for National Remembrance (INR) has urged regional authorities to dismantle 500 Soviet monuments in the country's territory.

A group of 18 people suspected of having links with the Islamic State terrorist organization have been detained in Moscow, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Wednesday, citing an unidentified source in law enforcement.