Moscow theater hostage crisis

Russia's prosecuting authority has indicted Zaur Dadayev, the person who it believes killed opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in February.

Separately, charges will be pressed against four other people believed to be his accomplices, TASS news agency reports.

Dadayev in March owned up to having committed Nemtsov's murder, but then retracted his confessions.

Armed men may have taken hostages in the town of Roubaix in northern France, near the border with Belgium, local media reported on Tuesday.

Witnesses have said gunshots were being fired in the incident that took place at a residence at around 7 p.m. local time (18:00 GMT).

Former Russian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov died at the age of 85 on Friday.

Primakov served as prime minister between 1998 and 1999 in the last months of the second presidential term of Boris Yeltsin.

Prior to that, Primakov headed the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) between 1991 and 1996 and served as foreign minister between 1996 and 1998.

Greek Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis has said that the political part of an agreement between Moscow and Athens over an extension to the so-called "Turkish Stream" pipeline is now ready to sign.

Russia offered visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi military and other aid on May 21 to help push back the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who have made further sweeping gains in both Iraq and Syria this week. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said he ?doesn?t want to act like Russian President Vladimir Putin? in the economy, referring to a story that the latter once told him. 

Russia celebrates the 70th anniversary since the victory over Nazi Germany, with a huge celebration in the Red Square. President Putin thanked France, Britain and the US for their help in defeating the Nazi threat.

Many foreign officials are present, including Chinese, Indian, Egyption and Cuban leaders as well as the UN’s secretary general Bank Ki-moon.

The European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Elmar Brok said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is aware that “he cannot help Greece financially.”

The MEP said that Russia “cannot restore the Greek standard of living and Greeks would not like the Russians’ standard of living,” speaking with state TV ARD and Bild newspaper.

The investigation of the murder of opposition Russian politician Boris Nemtsov has contract killing as its main version, TASS reported on Monday.

The news agency quoted an investigator as saying to the Moscow Basmanny District Court in that the search for the organizers and the person who had placed a contract on Nemtsov's life was in progress.

The number of those charged with the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in end-February now amounts to three, sources say.

Hamzat Bahayev, who was among the five detained in March in relation to the murder, has also been indicted, Interfax reports citing a person "familiar with the situation".