Russian Oil Tycoon Guilty of Embezzlement
Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev have been found guilty of embezzlement and money laundering Monday, BBC reports.
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Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev have been found guilty of embezzlement and money laundering Monday, BBC reports.
Hundreds of thousands Russians are left with no electricity and communications are stalled after a cold front with ice and snow flooded the country.
Serbia has filed a claim against UN interim administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) at the International Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia for hiding information about alleged organ harvesting and trafficking.
South Korea announced Sunday it will be holding new maritime military drills, though nowhere close to its border with North Korea.
Dutch police officers arrested on Christmas Eve 12 suspected terrorists for plotting a terrorist attack in the Netherlands.
After earlier this week, the US Senate ratified the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START 2) between the USA and Russia, the lower house of the Russian parliament has followed suit.
South Africa will attend the BRIC summit in 2011 Q1, thus becoming part of the grouping of four major newly advanced global economies – Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
God is faithful to his promises but often surprises us by how he fulfills them, Pope Benedict said in his first BBC radio broadcast.
Two thousand travellers have been left stranded at the main Paris airport, Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, as a relentless snow storm continues to pound France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
Macedonian police have arrested the owner of the private TV channel A1, Velija Ramkovski, on suspicion of having committed serious financial crimes, the Bulgarian National Radio, BNR, reports Friday.
The internet program for calling and instant messaging Skype is now back in operation and had almost entirely recovered from the worldwide outage.
Leading Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has claimed it is in possession of all 250,000 diplomatic cables collected by WikiLeaks and plans to publish them at its own discretion.
Foreign governments were aware of criminal organ harvesting carried out in Kosovo, stated Swiss Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly representative Dick Marty.
The EU and US are ready to freeze rapprochement with Belarus if no swift improvement is made in the human rights sphere, according to a joint statement by the two heads of diplomacy, Catherine Ashton and Hilary Clinton.
Bombs exploded in the embassies of Switzerland and Chile in Rome Thursday around noon, injuring at least two persons, reported world agencies.
Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc has expectedly survived a fourth no-confidence vote in 2010, while a man jumped from the balcony of the parliamentary chamber to protest Boc's economic policies.
A total of 69 alleged members of a Macedonian drug ring have been arrested in the Austrian capital Vienna.
North Korea’s Armed Forces Minister, Kim Yong-chun, has announced that his country is ready for a “holy war” with nuclear weapons against South Korea, the BBC reported.
The South Korean army has completed military exercises, billed as the largest land and air winter drills, about 50 km from the border with North Korea, CNN reported.
The Internet phone service Skype has apologized for causing an outage that hit millions of people around the globe, the BBC reported.
The Obama Administration has managed to get the ratification of the new US-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START 2) through the "lame-duck" Senate.
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