A sensationalist Russian news website on Monday published a photograph that it claims is the first to show U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden since he emerged from a Moscow airport in August.

In the blurry image published by Life News, a casually dressed man sporting a goatee with sunglasses perched on his head is pictured pushing a supermarket trolley full of groceries across a road.

Russia and the U.S. have agreed to push for holding Syria peace talks in mid-November, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday after talks with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry.

"We advocate holding the international conference (on Syria) in mid-November," Lavrov told journalists after holding talks with Kerry in Bali, Indonesia.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that Syrian leader Bashar Assad could take "credit" for quickly starting the process of destroying his regime's chemical weapons arsenal and thanked Russia for its help.

"The process has begun in record time and we are appreciative for the Russian cooperation and obviously for the Syrian compliance," he told reporters alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after talks in Indonesia.

Norway has been asked to help destroy Syria's chemical arsenal as part of U.N. efforts to rid the country of its weapons of mass destruction, a report said Saturday.

Both U.S. and Russian officials have approached Norway with oral requests for help in dismantling the weapons, Norwegian public broadcaster NRK said on its website.

Russians in Siberia were thrown into momentary panic on Friday when the emergencies ministry mistakenly issued a press release reporting 55 people had died from inhaling toxic chlorine gas.

Emergency services on Friday were holding scheduled drills across the vast country involving various disaster scenarios such as deadly explosions and fires.

Greenpeace supporters planned to hold vigils and marches across 47 countries Saturday in support of 30 activists arrested and jailed by Russia for staging an open-sea protest against Arctic oil drilling.

The global environmental lobby group's icebreaker Arctic Sunrise was impounded by Russian authorities last month after it approached the world's first oil rig in the pristine Barents Sea.

An assault on the Russian embassy in Tripoli that sparked the evacuation of its staff highlights a continued inability to protect diplomats that threatens Libya with renewed isolation, analysts say.

Wednesday evening's attack on the Russian compound triggered an exchange of fire in which two of the assailants were killed.

An unidentified man blew himself up on the Ukrainian border with Russia early Friday, seriously wounding several guards who spotted he was carrying a false passport, Ukraine's border service said.

Border guards stopped a minibus with Moldovan numberplates as it crossed into Ukraine from Russia through the Bachevsk border, an advisor to the head of Ukrainian border guards, Sergiy Astakhov, told Agence France Presse.

Two assailants were killed when protesters attacked Russia's embassy in Tripoli, a Libyan minister said Thursday, while denying Moscow's claims that it had evacuated the embassy on his request.

"Two Libyans were killed in the attack" late Wednesday, said Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz, adding that he had urged embassy staff not to spend the night in the compound for fear of a second attack.

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Russia to pay 1.2 million euros ($1.6 million) to the families of 18 people killed when it bombed a Chechen village in 2000.

The court ruled in favor of 13 residents of Aslanbek-Sheripovo, a village in the southern Russian republic which has fought two brutal separatist wars with Russia since 1994.