Russia has vetoed a draft of a UN Security Council resolution calling for an international tribunal on the crash of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight over eastern Ukraine last July and classifying the plane’s downing as a threat to peace and security.

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Russia has vetoed a draft of a UN Security Council resolution calling for an international tribunal on the crash of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight over eastern Ukraine last July and classifying the plane’s downing as a threat to peace and security.

Russian UN envoy Vitaly Churkin

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It has been more than a year since Islamic State hit the headlines, by invading large areas of Syria and Iraq. One third of Iraq has been captured by the jihadists. IS now controls two provincial capitals, as well as the city of Fallujah.

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Chechen regional police have detained three female con artists who talked fighters of the terrorist group Islamic State into sending them money for traveling to Syria.

RT's Madina Kochenova reports

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Russia is expected veto a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for an international tribunal to be formed to probe the downing of a Malaysian airliner last year. President Putin said he regretted that a compromise deal could not be worked out.

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Ghosts of Russian submarines continue to haunt Sweden, as salvage hunters say they have discovered one such sunken vessel not far from the country’s coast. The military are looking into the images, but experts say the sub may actually be a century old.

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European countries should be less beholden to military blocks and the US when considering issues concerning their own national interests, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the Swiss RTS TV channel. Putin also talked FIFA scandal & also mentioned that the US has been “pursuing an imperial policy for a long time.” In addition, he cited the opinion of some American political analysts who “believe that this imperial angle hurts the US.”

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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the surviving son of Libya’s slain leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been sentenced to death in the country along with several other members of the former government.

Sarah Bafadhel from the Libya Information Centre, assisting in the ICC case against Mr. Gaddafi.

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Russia will vote against a UN Security Council draft resolution to establish an international tribunal to investigate the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine in July 2014, Envoy to UN Vitaly Churkin said.

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Large-scale military drills have been launched in Israel with the aim of testing the IDF’s readiness to go into emergency mode. Hundreds of thousands of reserve soldiers are involved in testing the system.

Senior correspondent and columnist for Haaretz, Amir Oren, joins RT

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