The US Treasury added Russia’s senior federal investigator Alexander Bastrykin and alleged assassins Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun to the Magnitsky Act sanctions list.

The Co-Chairs urge the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to strictly observe the agreements reached during summits in Vienna and St. Petersburg in 2016, including obligations to finalize in the shortest possible time an OSCE investigative mechanism.

Inflow of transfers has reduced by USD 138.4 or 10.4% compared with January-October of the previous year. If the decline temp was maintained in November-December, as of data for 2016, transfer inflow will comprise USD 1 billion 460 million.

“Any state, any country, had preconditions, on the basis of which it developed, and it’s conditioned by their difference on how productively one may reach success. Of course, this doesn’t exclude that we need to accept, that some positive sides, at least identically, can be adopted.”

Gabriel, whose Social Democrats (SPD) are junior partner to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in her ruling grand coalition, said strenuous efforts by countries like France and Italy to reduce their fiscal deficits came with political risks, Reuters reports.

French police today swooped on a gang of veteran armed robbers suspected of stealing millions of pounds worth of jewellery from Kim Kardashian in Paris, the Daily Mail reports.

“The Secretary General’s statement over the incident in Chinari was very clear, and the Secretary General is one of the most important institutions of the CSTO and he expresses the organization’s whole opinion during the sessions,” the Defense Minister said.

Rafsanjani, a pragmatist ayatollah considered the country’s second most powerful political figure for much of the Islamic Republic’s history, died in hospital in north Tehran on Sunday, according to local news agencies.

Possibly the most famous physicist since Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking turns 75. Bound to a wheelchair by an incurable motor neurone disease, he is regarded by many as the greatest genius of our day.

A Russian trace in December’s cyber-attack against the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was discovered by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Following the attack, OSCE representatives admitted that it is possible for hackers to have gained access to the organization’s secret documents.