KHODORKOVSKY: I WON’T GET INVOLVED IN POLITICS
By FRANK JORDANS Mikhail Khodorkovsky, right, listens to Checkpoint Charlie Museum curator, Alexandra Hildebrandt, left, as he arrives for a press conference at the museum in Berlin, Sunday Dec. 22,…
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RUSSIAN OLIGARCH MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY A FREE MAN
FILE In this Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 file photo Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, looks from behind glass at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday…
FRANCE PUSHING EU TO FUND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS
By SYLVIE CORBET Former FARCA (Central African Republic Forces) soldiers linked to Anti-Balaka Christian militiamen who have set up camp in a school in the Boeing neighborhood of the Central…
Merkel leads EU calls for Ukraine to reform
By RAF CASERT German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers her speech at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the relationship between Germany…
Soldier: Minneapolis man ordered Nazi-led attack
By DAVID RISING and RANDY HERSCHAFT This 1982 photo provided by the University of Minnesota shows Nadia and Michael Karkoc. The Associated Press has uncovered testimony that says Michael Karkoc,…
Court shelves case against German bishop
FILE – In this Sept. 24, 2013 file picture Limburg Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, right, attends a mass during the meeting of German bishops in Fulda, Germany, A German court…
Eurozone recovery grinds to a near halt
By PAN PYLAS Lisbon municipal street cleaner Carlos Rodrigues pulls a hose as he works at Comercio square in downtown Lisbon, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Rodrigues, who earns the minimum…
Claims on German art trove face legal hurdles
By FRANK JORDANS Photo provided by the Augsburg, southern Germany, prosecution Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 shows the painting by French artist Henry Matisse ‘Sitzende Frau’ (‘Sitting Woman’) that was among…