According to the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation has ordered to send specialists of the International Mine Action Centre to Syria for humanitarian mine clearance in the city Palmyra, which had been liberated from ISIS terrorists by the Syrian Army.

The Sputnik new agency was served notice on the closure of its Internet resource in Latvia’s national domain zone on March 29.

Reuters informs Russian government has decided to provide 150 billion roubles ($2.2 billion) to recapitalise VEB, the state development bank, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told the bank's supervisory board meeting on Tuesday.

The Cypriot Foreign Ministry informs flight MS181 from Burj al-Arab in Egypt’s Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked on Tuesday morning by an Egyptian nationalist Seig Eldin Mustafa. The hijacker being arrested, all the passengers on the plane have been released.

Fidel Castro has broken his silence over President Obama's Cuba visit in a damning letter published in state-run newspaper Granma, BBC informs.

According to Reuters, Pakistan has decided to launch a paramilitary crackdown on Islamist militants in Punjab, the country's richest and most populous province, after an Easter Day bombing killed 70 people in the provincial capital Lahore, officials said Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Syria Bashar Assad on March 27.

The US Defence Secretary Ashton B. Carter has announced on Friday that The United States has killed a number of leading Islamic State (IS) militants in the past week, including a top Islamic State commander in Syria as part of a spate of military actions targeting the terrorist group’s leadership and explosives caches.

Explosions and gunfire rang out Friday afternoon in Brussels. One person was wounded and detained in a major police operation in the northern Brussels borough of Schaerbeek, Belgian public broadcaster RTBF quoted the local mayor as saying.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been convicted of genocide and war crimes in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, and sentenced to 40 years in jail, BBC informs.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Moscow on Thursday

Russian President Vladimir Putin received in the Kremlin US Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr Kerry arrived for a meeting with the Russian President after his talks with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on March 24.