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According to the critics, a new bill backed by the Russian parliament would greatly extend the powers of the country's spy service FSB, transforming it into a KGB-style organization.

It has been reported that the bill was passed Monday by the upper house of the Russian Duma. First proposed after the terrorist attacks on the Moscow subway system in March, it would enable officers from the FSB, the successor of the KGB and the country's main spy service, to take preventive action against people suspected of planning crimes or extremist activity.

Nevada (US), July 21  : Hollywood diva Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls) reportedly adopting meditation and yoga in her life was "step in the right direction" for her, acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has pointed out.

In a statement in Nevada (USA) today, Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, argued that finding inner peace through spirituality would be very helpful to Lohan. He suggested her to determinedly seek Self through mediation and have self-control.

Talking about those who have "conquered themselves", Lord Krishna revealed in ancient Hindu scripture Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord)-They live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame; Rajan Zed said.

A former aide to Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi said that the supreme leader of Iran must answer for his stance on the Iranian prison system.

Radio Zamaneh, a Persian news service in the Netherlands, reported that Issa Sakarkhiz, who campaigned for Karroubi in 2009, said he was considering pressing charges against Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for "remaining silent in the face of detainee torture."

The minister of higher education has said that women in Syria are barred from wearing the niqab full-face veil while attending university.

Syrian media has revealed that the decree follows a pronouncement by his counterpart, the minister of education, that disallowed fully veiled schoolteachers in lower and infant schools. Last month, around 1,200 schoolteachers wearing the face veil were dismissed from their jobs.

The Minister of Higher Education Ghiath Barakat said that the ban in universities was done to promote moderation within society.

According to the victim, a Virginia man's car was broken into in Iowa, and thieves took his late wife's cremated remains among other items pertaining to her death.

The Des Moines (Iowa) Register reported on Tuesday that Charles Duttweiler, 73, said he doesn't care about the other items stolen, including a new computer and thousands of dollars' worth of other items. He said he really only wants back his wife's cremains, her photographs, her death certificate and a laminated copy of her obituary.