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Chinese customs officials detained a man with a large party of medicinal herbs
Chinese Customs border point Manzhouli in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on the border with the Russian citizen detained in China for smuggling from Russia more than 670 kilograms of medical plants worth more than 43 thousand dollars.
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Election of the President of Uzbekistan. Archival photoUzbekistan finished voting in the presidential elections
Topic: Presidential elections in Uzbekistan
The first preliminary results will announce the results of elections on 5 December. According to the latest information, voted 86.62% of voters or 17.69 million voters in the elections.
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Hawaii. Archival photoHawaii was a heavy snowfall
On one of the islands of the Hawaiian island of the archipelago fell a record amount of snow in some areas snow depth reached 90 centimeters.
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Residents at the polling station during the presidential elections in UzbekistanThe head of the Central Election Commission of Latvia sees no violations during the elections in Uzbekistan
Topic: Presidential elections in Uzbekistan
Arnis Tsimdars running in the elections as an observer.
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Residents at the polling station during the presidential elections in UzbekistanTurnout in the presidential elections in Uzbekistan exceeded 80%
Topic: Presidential elections in Uzbekistan
Votes for more than 16 million citizens.
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View on Malaga. Archival photoIt became aware of the first victims of the floods in Malaga
flood victims, according to local media, has become a 26-year-old resident of the municipality of Estepona.
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Police patrol the streets of Malaysia. Archival photoMalaysian authorities seized 30 kg of heroin
In Malaysia for drug trafficking carries the death penalty.
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Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Archival photoParticipants' automaidan "came to the house of the head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and demanded the resignation of
The plot: The situation in Ukraine. December 2016
Participants public organization Arsen Avakov considered guilty of the failure of the process of certification of law enforcement officers, including the National Police Reform and the Ministry of Interior as a whole.
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Iraqi Army soldiers. Archival photoIn Afghanistan, killed one of the leaders of the IG
The terrorist was killed after militants launched an attack on one of the posts of the security forces in the city Darzab area.
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Employees of Ukrainian police in Kiev. Archival photoMedia reported six killed in a firefight security forces near Kiev
The plot: The situation in Ukraine. December 2016
Six policemen died in the hospital after a shooting near Kiev, UNIAN reports.
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A memorial service in honor of Fidel Castro in Santiago de Cuba. Archival photoIn Santiago de Cuba, Fidel Castro was buried ashes
Plot: Died Fidel Castro
The ashes of the leader of the Cuban revolution were buried in the cemetery of Santa Ifigenia. Cuban television broadcasts does not lead to the burial ceremony.
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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. Archival photoPoroshenko demanded to punish those responsible for the deaths of police officers near Kiev
The plot: The situation in Ukraine. December 2016
In the Kiev region of five law enforcement officers were killed in a shootout between members of the State Security Service and a special unit of the National Police CORD.
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Finnish police. Archival photoVictims arrow Imatra in Finland on the border with Russia became the head of the city council and two journalists
On Saturday night at Vuoksenvahti restaurant in the city of Imatra, near the border with Russia, three women were shot.Murder suspect surrendered to the police.
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Northern Iraq. Archival photoIn Iraqi Kurdistan during the battle with the security forces blew up two suicide IG
The incident occurred in a village in the province of Sulaymaniyah. About the loss is not reported among the security forces.
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Russian Emergency Situations Ministry rescuers provide comprehensive assistance to the Georgian Military HighwayOn the Georgian Military Highway because of bad weather we have accumulated nearly 400 vehicles
The column was a lot of people who did not expect to find in a long way and have no stock of food and personal care products, said the MOE.
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View on Malaga. Archival photoIn the Spanish province of Malaga flooding occurred
Because of the heavy rains the water were some of the main streets of Malaga, the red danger level is entered in the other cities of the province: Antequera, Manilva, AXARQUÍA, Ronda.
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India. New Delhi. Business Quarter. Archival photoParticipants of the conference "Heart of Asia" supported the strategy to combat terrorism in the region
Conference member countries "Heart of Asia" agreed to instruct their experts in the field of security to meet in 2017, to identify the key measures to combat terrorism.
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Passport and the form in the hands of the voters during the presidential election in UzbekistanUzbekistan does not reveal any violations in the presidential elections
Topic: Presidential elections in Uzbekistan
According to the CEC, turnout in the presidential election in Uzbekistan has already exceeded 77%.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Archival photoPhilippine Vice President announced the resignation due to disagreement with Duterte
Leni Robredo said he could no longer perform the duties as she diverging opinions with the President on a number of issues, including illegal killings, the return of the death penalty, reducing the age of criminal responsibility and sexual harassment against women.
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DiploFoto. As the world looks through the eyes of Russian diplomats
The Russian Foreign Ministry holds monthly photo contest DiploPhoto, who publish its employees from around the world.Revision ria.ru offers to choose the best, in your opinion, the work of diplomats in November.
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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. Archival photoThe media reported about the plans of France Prime Minister to participate in the primaries of the Socialist Party
The media also reported that Manuel Valls announce this intention at the beginning of the coming week.
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Dubai, archive photoIn Dubai, five people were killed in an accident involving a truck and a bus
In the old part of Dubai's truck collided with a bus carrying 20 laborers from Southeast Asia.
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Santiago de Cuba by Fidel Castro on the eve of the funeralIn Santiago de Cuba began the burial ceremony of the ashes of Fidel Castro
Plot: Died Fidel Castro
The motorcade accompanied thousands of residents.
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LIVE: The funeral the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel CastroFuneral ceremony of Fidel Castro. Live Stream
In Santiago de Cuba held funeral leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, who died on November 25 at the age of 90 years. The country declared a national mourning - lowered national flags, canceled entertainment.
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Residents at the polling station during the presidential elections in UzbekistanElections in Uzbekistan: the voters came in advance, and the candidates - one by one
Topic: Presidential elections in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan holds presidential elections. After the death of Islam Karimov, residents elect a new head of state of the four candidates.
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A woman votes at a polling station during the presidential elections in UzbekistanThe Uzbek embassy in Moscow told about the election of the president of the republic
Topic: Presidential elections in Uzbekistan
The polling station at the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Moscow will be open until 20.00.
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Entrance to polling station, which held presidential elections in UzbekistanTurnout in the presidential elections in Uzbekistan exceeded 72%
Topic: Presidential elections in Uzbekistan
Votes already 14.7 million voters, the CEC informed the republic.
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The presidential candidate Norbert Hofer Austria with his wife in front of a polling station, December 4, 2016Candidates for president of Austria voted in elections
For high office again fighting the youngest presidential candidate, engineer and MP candidate from the nationalist Freedom Party Hofer and 72-year-old professor, a retired economist and former leader of the "green" Van der Bellen.
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Helicopter fleet Afghan Air Force Mi-17 helicopters. Archival photoIn Afghanistan, there is no alternative to Russian weapons, said the Russian Foreign Ministry
Afghans are accustomed to the Russian weapons in general and in particular the helicopters, they insist on Russian technology, said the Russian president's special representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabul.
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View of Kabul. Afghanistan. Archival photoThe Russian Foreign Ministry assured that the international community remembers the problems of Afghanistan
Events in Afghanistan do not allow him to forget about, the director of the Second Asian Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabul.
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Ukrainian army tanks in the Donetsk region. Archival photoThe DNR said that security forces pull together in the Donbass heavy equipment
The plot: The situation in the DNR and LNR. December 2016
DNI continues to fix Prospecting strengthening the position of the Ukrainian armed forces' contact-line near.
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Soldiers of the APU. Archival photoSecurity forces fired DNI more than 300 mines and shells per day
The plot: The situation in the DNR and LNR. December 2016
Security forces fired on Gorlovka, Donetsk, Yasinovataya, White Kamenka and villages in the south of the Donets Basin.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May. Archival photoPrime Ministers of Britain intends to fire in case of leakage of information
Theresa May also requested to strengthen security measures and improve security services response to incidents of information leakage.
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Deputy commander of the headquarters of the militia of the Donetsk People's Republic Eduard Eduard Basurin. Archival photoThe DNI denied media reports of an explosion at a munitions depot in Donetsk
The plot: The situation in the DNR and LNR. December 2016
Earlier media reported that the explosion of the warehouse of ammunition on the territory of chemical products factory. The DNI said that the ammunition depots are not placed on the territory of chemical plants.
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The situation in the LC. Archival photoThe tense situation continues in the line of contact, say in LC
The plot: The situation in the DNR and LNR. December 2016
Security officials see as the main military option to resolve the conflict and to focus this military technology and equip with a position on the line of contact, the official representative of the People's Militia LNR Andrew Marochko.
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View of the River Saigon and Ho Chi Minh City center, Vietnam. Archival photoAs a result of the floods in Vietnam killed 13 people
It is reported that three children aged from 4 to 13 years are missing in Quang Ngai Province.
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Ukrainian police officers. Archival photoNear Kiev security forces shot each other
The plot: The situation in Ukraine. December 2016
Employees of the Criminal Investigation Department, Special Forces CORD and the State Security Service staged a gunfight in the village near Kiev Knyazhychi.
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Election of the President of UzbekistanElection of the President of Uzbekistan held in a calm atmosphere
Topic: Presidential elections in Uzbekistan
All public places, markets, a busy highway patrol police patrols.
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Imatra hyphaeThe network has video shooting locations in the Finnish city on the border with Russia
On Saturday night, the unknown opened fire at one of the restaurants in Imatra. Killing three women.
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Finnish police car. Archival photoPolice arrested a suspect in the shooting in the Finnish city on the border with Russia
Detained a local resident suspected that on Sunday night opened fire on the visitors of the restaurant in the city of Imatra and killed three women.
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Saudi central bank hit by hackers' 'digital bomb', risking payments

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'This would be at least the second central bank to suffer a major digital attack in the past year. In February, hackers stole $81m by manipulating the international payment system at the central bank in Bangladesh' Stock photo: Reuters1
'This would be at least the second central bank to suffer a major digital attack in the past year. In February, hackers stole $81m by manipulating the international payment system at the central bank in Bangladesh' Stock photo: Reuters
State-sponsored hackers who unleashed a digital bomb in key parts of Saudi Arabia's computer networks over the last two weeks damaged systems at the country's central bank, known as the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, according to two people briefed on an ongoing investigation of the breach.
The attacks, which afflicted at least six government entities, used a computer-killing malware known as Shamoon that is linked to Iran, they said. Hitting the targets had the potential to inflict damage across several critical sectors, including finance and transportation.
The investigation is still in its early stages and the determination of responsibility could change, the two people said. The number of entities where damage occurred is likely to grow as the probe continues, a third said.
Iranian officials didn't respond to repeated requests for comment on the attack. Calls placed to the Saudi Interior Ministry about the targeting of the country's central bank weren't returned.
This would be at least the second central bank to suffer a major digital attack in the past year. In February, hackers stole $81m by manipulating the international payment system at the central bank in Bangladesh.
The central bank manages foreign-exchange reserves, supervises commercial banks, and runs the country's electronic-payments system.
It's unclear what part of its information systems were damaged in the attack. There haven't been reports of outages in the electronic-payments system or other parts of the banking sector.
The malware, which overwrites the master boot record of a computer, rendering it inoperable, has already destroyed thousands of computers across multiple government agencies, two people familiar with the probe said.
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Italy voter turnout above 20 percent at midday

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(1 of 7) A ballot is being cast at a polling station in Pontassieve, Italy, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016. Italians are voting in a referendum on constitutional reforms that is being closely watched abroad to see if Italy is the next country to reject the political status quo. Premier Matteo Renzi has said he would resign if the reforms are rejected in Sunday’s vote, and opposition politicians have vowed to press for a new government if voters reject the proposed constitutional changes.

The turnout is on par with the European elections in May 2014, when 20.48 percent of eligible voters had cast ballots by noon.
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Premier Matteo Renzi has cast his ballot in a referendum on constitutional reforms that will be decisive for his political future.
Renzi voted at a balloting station in Pontassieve, a Tuscan town about 14 kilometers (nine miles) east of Florence, the city where he was mayor before becoming premier 2 ½ years ago. He was accompanied by his wife, Agnese Landini, who also voted.
After marking the ballot in a booth, Renzi posed for photographers and dropped the form into the ballot box.
Renzi has said he will resign if the referendum fails, although how that plays out politically is likely to depend on the turnout and the margin of the decision.
Renzi is expected to return to Rome later this afternoon to watch the outcome of the vote.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has cast his ballot in the referendum on constitutional reforms that is being closely watched abroad to see if Italy is the next country to reject the political status quo.
The former three-time premier has said he would vote "No." He shook hands with election officials and posed for photographers after voting in the capital, Rome.
Berlusconi's Forza Italia party is largely in disarray, with a tax fraud conviction keeping the 80-year-old center-right leader out of public office.
Premier Matteo Renzi says he will resign if the reforms are rejected, and opposition politicians have vowed to press for a new government if voters reject the proposed constitutional changes.
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Italians are voting in a referendum on constitutional reforms that is being closely watched abroad to see if Italy is the next country to reject the political status quo.
Premier Matteo Renzi says he will resign if the reforms are rejected in Sunday's vote, and opposition politicians have vowed to press for a new government if voters reject the proposed constitutional changes.
The risk of political instability has triggered market reaction before the vote, with bank stocks sinking and the borrowing costs on sovereign debt rising.
The referendum aims to streamline Italy's cumbersome lawmaking process by reducing the powers of the Senate while also removing some key decision-making powers from regions.
Polls are open Sunday for 16 hours starting at 7 a.m. (0600 GMT).
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Local politician, 2 reporters killed in Finland shooting




(1 of 3) Police guard the area where three women were killed in a shooting incident outside of a restaurant in Imatra, Finland after midnight, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016. A gunman killed a local town councilor and two journalists, all women, in an apparent random shooting in a nightlife district in a small town in southeastern Finland, police said Sunday. A male suspect has been detained. (Hannu Rissanen/Lehtikuva via AP)

The chairwoman of Imatra Town Council and two female reporters were gunned down in a pedestrian area outside a restaurant in the town just before a police patrol car arrived to the scene around midnight Saturday, police spokeswoman Heli Jamsen-Turkki said. Police said two of the victims were in their early 50s and one was in her mid-30s.
Police detained a 23-year-old local man who didn't resist arrest. He fired four or five shots, hitting his victims in the head and torso with a hunting rifle, authorities said. Saku Tielinen, who is leading the investigation, said the suspect had a criminal record, including for violent incidents and theft but declined to identify him or give more details.
"There is no indication of a political motive. It seems the gunman and victims didn't know each other," Tielinen said. "All indications are that he chose his victims randomly." Investigators will question him later Sunday. The suspect arrived outside the restaurant in his car and shot the three women as they stepped out of the restaurant. He then waited in the car until police arrived and accompanied officers silently and peacefully, police said.
Imatra, which has 28,000 inhabitants, is about 230 kilometers (140 miles) east of the capital, Helsinki. "We decided to open a crisis center after the shooting occurred right in the middle of the town near restaurants and nightclubs," said Saara Raudasoja, a spokeswoman for the South Karelia Social and Health Care District. "There were people there when it happened. In such a small place, it's quite a huge incident and many people were shocked."
In Finland, a country of 5.4 million people with strong hunting traditions, there are 650,000 officially recognized gun owners although homicides with guns are unusual. But after two fatal school shootings early this decade, gun laws have been tightened.
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Uzbekistan votes in first election since Karimov's death



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Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Shavkat Mirziyoyev
(1 of 4) Uzbek acting President Shavkat Mirziyoyev leaves a voting booth to cast his ballot during presidential election in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016. Mirziyoyev, who spent 13 years as Karimov's prime minister, is expected to easily win a five-year term. Karimov led Uzbekistan since before the Soviet collapse, first as its communist boss and then as president.

Karimov led Uzbekistan since before the Soviet collapse, first as its communist boss and then as president. During his long tenure, he ruthlessly crushed all opposition and was denounced by international human rights groups for abuses that included killings and torture.
The odds-on favorite in Sunday's election is acting President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who spent 13 years as Karimov's prime minister. Uzbekistan's Election Commission said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that the turnout in the presidential vote was nearly 70 percent by 3 p.m. (1000 GMT, 5 a.m. EST), five hours before the polls were to close.
Karimov never cultivated a succession and his death in September death raised concerns that the predominantly Sunni Muslim nation of 32 million might see fierce infighting over its leadership. Mirziyoyev, however, shifted into the acting president's job quickly and without any visible tensions, highlighting apparent consensus between regional clans.
The 59-year old Mirziyoyev faces three nominal rivals. Two of them challenged Karimov in past elections, each receiving about 3 percent of the vote. However, neither candidate has campaigned as a vocal critic of Mirziyoyev, while the fourth contender has been just as pliant.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which deployed an observer team to monitor the election, has described the campaign as "strictly regulated" and "moderately visible." "There is no perceptible exchange of views among the candidates with regard to their programs," the OSCE said in an interim report. "All candidates refrain from criticizing the government or each other, and claim to target distinct segments of the electorate."
Uzbekistan, Central Asia's most populous nation, is rich in natural resources and borders Afghanistan, making it of strategic interest to Russia, the U.S. and China. Shortly after Karimov died, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Uzbekistan and met with Mirziyoyev, a trip that reflected Moscow's desire to strengthen its influence in the country.
The U.S. installed a military base in the country for action in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks. Washington was forced to abandon the facility in 2005 as relations between the Uzbekistan and the U.S. soured following a government crackdown on rioters in the Ferghana Valley city of Andijan that is believed to have left hundreds dead.
Almost all Western media long have been barred from reporting inside Uzbekistan, and the country's independent journalists and activists have faced sustained harassment.
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Nigeria's refugee camps record 512 new HIV cases



LAGOS, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- At least 512 new cases of HIV infections have been recorded in internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Nigeria's restive Borno State, an official said Sunday.
The cases were recorded after voluntary screening in some IDPs' camps in the northeast state, Barkindo Saidu, the Executive Secretary of Borno Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS (BOSACA), told a news conference in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state.
Saidu pointed out that two out of the 512 persons were children.
"We are currently conducting voluntary screening on HIV/AIDS in IDPs' camps across the state to determine the status of the people, especially those rescued from the Boko Haram terrorists," he added.
He said the state had witnessed rising cases of the disease largely due to the Boko Haram terrorism.
According to him, 2.4 percent of the population of the state are living with HIV/AIDS, which translates to 108,000 people, going by the record of the National Population Commission.
"But only a tiny portion of these people can access treatment because most anti retro-viral centers have closed," Saidu said.
The health official told reporters that only 32 out of the 90 antiretroviral centers were still operational in the state. The rest have been closed down due to Boko Haram activities.
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