MOSCOW, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin urged all countries Wednesday to abandon outdated geopolitical games and create a global security system to curb the rising threat of terrorism.
""We need to create a modern, nonaligned collective security system. Russia is open to discuss this important issue and has repeatedly declared its readiness for dialogue,"" Putin said in an address to the State Duma, Russia's lower parliament house, on Russia's Day of Remembrance and Grief, marking Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.
Today all countries should abandon ""old and worn-out ideological differences and geopolitical games,"" and unite in the fight against international terrorism, Putin said.
Warning that the risk of propagation of terrorism is rising, Putin lamented that Russia did not see any positive response from its partners on the suggestion of a joint anti-terror fight.
""The major lesson (of World War II) is well-known: It could have been prevented, and there could have been a timely and firm suppression of the rampaging Nazis and their accomplices,"" Putin said.
On the contrary, NATO is intensifying its aggressive rhetoric and actions already near our borders, which forces Russia to pay special attention to enhancing its defense capability, the Russian president said.
Relations between Russia and the West have reached their lowest level since the Cold War in the wake of the Crimea crisis in early 2014. On June 14, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced the deployment of four multinational battalions to Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
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PARIS, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Celebrating Huawei Innovation Days here Tuesday, the Chinese giant of information and communications technology (ICT) inaugurated its mathematics research center in France.
Directed by Merouane Debbah, a professor and mathematics researcher, the center aims to find an answer to global technological challenges, such as challenging the limit of Moore's law and extending the human imagination on what the Internet can bring, the company said.
Xu Wenwei, director of Huawei strategic marketing, said choosing Paris to host its second global research center was due to France's rich academic experience in mathematics.
""We plan to continue our investment program over the long term and to develop other partnerships,"" he said.
To Thierry Mandon, French junior minister in charge of high education and research, the inauguration of the Huawei mathematics center is proof of the excellence of the French mathematics school and the quality of research in France which is recognized worldwide today.
The Paris Huawei center is the second one to be set up globally after a center in Russia. Enditem
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Museum of London officials are now in talks with Thames Water about having a slice of the fatberg as a future exhibit.
A spokesman at the museum said: "This rock-solid mass highlights some of the pressures modern life can impose on London's historical infrastructures. Issues like this are discussed and explored in the museum's City Now City Future season which deals with contemporary issues that cities around the world face."
Museum director Sharon Ament said: "The discovery of this fatberg highlights one of the many issues London has to deal with as it grows and evolves. Our year-long season, City Now City Future Authentic Harold Landry Jersey , explores what the future holds for people living in urban environments.
"It is important for the Museum of London to display genuine curiosities from past and present London. If we are able to acquire the fatberg for our collection I hope it would raise questions about how we live today and also inspire our visitors to consider solutions to the problems of growing metropolises."
The spokesman said the museum is hoping to confirm the acquisition very soon of what is one of the largest fatbergs ever discovered in Britain, and has opened a dialogue with Thames Water.
A team of eight operatives have already started to remove the fatberg using high-power water hoses to break up the mass. The pieces are being sucked up into tankers and taken to a recycling site in London.
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WASHINGTON Authentic Marcus Mariota Jersey , Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Treasury Department announced Thursday it has imposed sanctions on 11 entities and individuals for supporting Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for cyber-attacks against the United States.
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