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MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/: Legal entities recognized as foreign agents will have to report to Russia’s Justice Ministry if they are bankrolled from abroad, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications Leonid Levin told reporters on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/: The Army Military and Technical Forum and the International Army Games will be held simultaneously in August 2020, Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting of the forum’s organizing committee on Wednesday.

"We will hold the sixth Army International Military and Technical Forum in August next year," he said, adding that the event would take place "simultaneously with the International Army Games."

MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/: The first two UR-100N UTTKh intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) outfitted with the Avangard nuclear boost-glide vehicle will go on experimental combat duty in coming weeks. Work is underway to prepare and place the missiles into silos, a source in the defense industry told TASS on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has exposed a drug trafficking group that ran one of the largest online drug trafficking stores, the FSB said in a statement.

"Russia’s Federal Security Service has carried out a multi-stage special operation, exposing an organized criminal group involved in major drug trafficking schemes based on Internet technologies," the statement reads.

13 November 2019; AFP: "Extremely educational" is how Greta Thunberg sums up her North American sojourn as she prepares to cross the Atlantic once more, this time bound back for Europe.

The 16-year-old Swede, who became world famous for founding the "school strikes for the climate," will set sail Wednesday morning, weather permitting, after 11 hectic weeks of criss-crossing the US and Canada, making headlines at every turn.

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has a 10-point lead over the opposition Labour Party, according to an opinion poll published by market research company Kantar on Wednesday, ahead of next month’s election.

Support for the Conservatives stood at 37% compared with Labour’s 27%. The pro-European Union Liberal Democrats were on 17% and the Brexit Party was on 9%.

Kantar surveyed 1,165 people online between Nov. 7 and Nov. 11, before the Brexit Party announced it would not stand in seats held by Conservative members of parliament.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday accused Washington of hunting its citizens across the world and said it had made a formal diplomatic protest after Israel extradited a Russian man to the United States where he faces a slew of serious cyber crime charges.

The U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement on Tuesday that Alexei Burkov, 29, had arrived in the United States and made his first court appearance thanks to cooperation with Israel where he was arrested in 2015.

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Wednesday they were searching for Venezuela’s former military intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal, days after local media including EFE news agency reported a Spanish court had agreed to extradite him to the United States.

Carvajal, an ally of Venezuela’s late Socialist leader Hugo Chavez, is wanted by U.S. authorities on allegations of drug trafficking. He has denied the accusations.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s air force said on Wednesday it had decided not to take two Airbus (AIR.PA) A400M planes that were due to be delivered, citing recurring technical problems with the military transporters.

The air force said while the A400M formed the backbone of its air transport, there were technical issues - such as with the propellers.

MADRID, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Acting Prime Minister and Spanish Socialist Workers' Party leader (PSOE) Pedro Sanchez, and Pablo Iglesias, leader of the left-wing Unidas-Podemos party, on Tuesday signed a "pre-agreement" for the two parties to form a coalition government in Spain.

The preliminary agreement, which is based on the "loyalty" of both parties to "form a stable government for four years", was signed in the Spanish Congress building in Madrid just two days after Sunday's general election.