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Clinton urges wider pressure on North Korea
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expressing deep concern about North Korean plans to carry out a long-range rocket launch this month.
Russia's Abramovich buys Norilsk stake to end feud
Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich will buy a stake in miner Norilsk Nickel to end a long-running feud between two fellow oligarchs. Rusal, the aluminum ...
UN pulling staff from Syria, violence near capital
Fighting between rebels and government forces raged near the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, forcing an inbound commercial jet to turn back while ...
Obama hails Nunn, Lugar efforts to secure nukes
Hailing two decades of efforts to help the former Soviet Union secure nuclear weapons stockpiles, President Barack Obama said Monday that the world ...
Russia, Turkey downplay Syria differences
The leaders of Russia and Turkey on Monday downplayed differences over the Syrian civil war, saying they shared the common goal of trying to end the ...
Clinton pushes US bid for Czech nuclear project
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lobbied the Czech government Monday to approve an American bid for a $10 billion expansion of a nuclear ...
Napoleon's coded Kremlin letter sold for $243,500
A secret code letter sent by French emperor Napoleon boasting that his multinational forces would blow up Moscow's Kremlin has sold at auction Sunday ...
Iran says nuclear fuel removed because of debris
Iran's nuclear chief says fuel was removed from the country's sole nuclear reactor in October because debris had been left behind during its ...
Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale
The single line of Napoleon's secret code told Paris of his desperate, last order against the Russians: "At three o'clock in the morning, on the 22nd ...
Russian whistleblower's death in UK unexplained
British officials are investigating the unexplained death of a Russian businessman, a key witness against Russian officials who allegedly stole $230 ...
Court bans video of Pussy Riot's performance
The video of punk band Pussy Riot's performance in Russia's main cathedral is extremist and must be removed from the web, a Moscow court ruled ...
Russian children find lion cub, take it to school
Most primary school classes get a goldfish to keep, a hamster or a turtle if they're lucky — but children from one village in southern Russia got to ...
Red Square bomb plotter gets 15 years in jail
A man whose plot to cause carnage on Moscow's iconic Red Square was thwarted by a spam phone message that prematurely detonated a bomb was sentenced ...
Arafat grave dug up for probe of poison suspicion
Eight years after Yasser Arafat's mysterious death, his political heirs opened his grave Tuesday and let forensics experts take samples from his ...
Murder trial in Russia inflames ethnic tensions
A world martial arts champion from Russia's southern Caucasus region was convicted Tuesday of involuntary manslaughter, but set free after a trial ...
Russia's Cossacks start patrolling Moscow streets
Renowned for their sword-fighting prowess and notorious for their anti-Semitism in czarist Russia, the Cossacks are taking on new foes: beggars, ...
US twin astronaut, Russian to spend year in orbit
A former space shuttle commander whose twin brother is married to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will attempt the longest spaceflight ever by an ...
Convicted Russian spy Danilov released on parole
A Russian physicist convicted of spying for China has been released on parole and is continuing to protest his innocence. Valentin Danilov was ...
Pussy Riot member moved to solitary cell
One of the jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot has been moved into a solitary cell following tensions with other inmates, Russian prison ...
Georgia's new premier raises pressure on president
Georgia's new prime minister said Thursday he would move quickly to expand the Cabinet's powers, a change that would take away even more influence ...
Lawsuit against Madonna dismissed in Russia
A Russian court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that sought millions of dollars in damages from Madonna for allegedly traumatizing minors by speaking ...
Dozens of groups boycott Russia's new NGOs law
Dozens of non-governmental organizations operating in Russia are refusing to comply with a new law restricting their activities as part of the ...
2 more Polish plane victims buried in wrong graves
Forensic testing has proven that two more victims of the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others were ...
Russian farmer takes on corrupt officials
When Eduard Mochalov tried to have the people who stole his cattle and pig farm brought to justice, he spent eight months in jail on charges he says ...
Russian woman keeps hold of dead husband's body
Russian authorities say a woman with five children kept her husband's body in their apartment for almost three years after his death. Prosecutors in ...