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MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/: The Kremlin finds intolerable Polish President Andrzej Duda's latest rhetoric towards Russia, in particular his claim Russia was an "abnormal country". Moscow wishes to have friendly relations with all neighbors, including Poland, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Thursday.

MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi on Friday, May 28, and discuss relevant issues related to the further development of bilateral ties and the two countries’ joint projects, the Kremlin press service reported on Thursday.

MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/: Those individuals who have been inoculated with both components of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus infection are not contagious, Vladimir Gushchin, head of the laboratory of mechanisms of population variability of pathogenic microorganisms of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology that developed the jab, said.

(TASS) --- The Justice of the Peace of Court in Moscow’s Tagansky District again fined Google 3.5 mln rubles ($47,700) for the repeated failure of the search engine operator to perform its duties, the Court’s press service told TASS.

"By a ruling of the Justice of the Peace of Court No. 422 in Moscow’s Tagansky District, Google has been found guilty of the administrative offence under Part 2.1, Article 13.40 of the Russian Administrative Code. It [Google] has been levied with an administrative fine amounting to 3.5 mln rubles," the court said.

SOCHI, May 27. /TASS/: The modern Russian Army must be compact, but display efficiency, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes. To achieve that goal, Russia must develop its military transport aviation, he says. 

"I reiterate that, for our country, with its huge territory, the largest territory in the world, this [development of the military transport aviation] has special importance, so that our army can stay compact, as we always say, but efficient. This is also important for successful landing operations," the head of said during a meeting on defense.

GENEVA, May 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) – A draft resolution on health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, was approved yesterday at the ongoing virtual World Health Assembly (WHA).

The resolution, with a significant majority of countries voting to support, was submitted by more than 20 countries and regions, such as, Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, according to the decision made last year in WHA, the highest decision-making body of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

27 May 2021; MEMO: Tension between Morocco and Spain has lowered slightly as the fate of about 700 migrant minors who entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta remains unclear. The authorities in Rabat and Madrid are not sure what to do next.

(Reuters) --- U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Thursday that Israel's deadly strikes on Gaza may constitute war crimes, and that the Hamas Islamist group had also violated international humanitarian law by firing rockets into Israel.

Bachelet said her office had verified the deaths of 270 Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including 68 children, during violence this month. Most were killed in Hamas-controlled Gaza, where Israel fought militants for 11 days, ending in a ceasefire.

(Reuters) --- A senior Russian security official said on Thursday that Moscow had used its navy and air force to expel a British warship, HMS Dragon, from what he described as Russian territorial waters near Russian-annexed Crimea last October.

Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, drawing sanctions and condemnation from the West. Kyiv wants the territory back.

(Reuters) --- French President Emmanuel Macron said he recognised his country’s role in Rwanda’s genocide and hoped for forgiveness at a memorial in Kigali on Thursday, seeking to reset relations after years of Rwandan accusations that France was complicit in the 1994 atrocities.

"Only those who went through that night can perhaps forgive, and in doing so give the gift of forgiveness," Macron said at the Gisozi genocide memorial in Kigali, where more than 250,000 victims are buried.