Family of detained Briton asks Russia for release
LONDON (AP) — Relatives of a British freelance journalist jailed in Russia with a group of Greenpeace protesters have demonstrated outside Russia’s London embassy to call for the group’s release.…
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Japan, Russia to keep talking territorial issue
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, shakes hands with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida prior to their meeting in Tokyo, Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. Japan and Russia…
Snowden seeks world’s help against US charges
By GEIR MOULSON and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Opposition Greens lawmaker Hans-Christian Stroebele, shows a letter to the media, he claims he received from Edward Snowden, prior to a press conference in…
Syria peace envoy: No talks without opposition
By ALBERT AJI UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi speaks in a press conference in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. Brahimi urged during his days-long visit to Damascus…
EXIT POLLS IN GEORGIA SHOW BIG WIN FOR PM’S CHOICE
By LYNN BERRY and MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI Georgian Dream ruling coalition’s presidential candidate Georgy Margvelashvili, left, kisses his daughter Anna, outside a polling station during presidential election in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday,…
EX-TYCOON KHODORKOVSKY MARKS 10 YEARS IN PRISON
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV FILE – In this file photo taken on Thursday Dec. 30, 2010, former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev talk behind a glass…
RUSSIANS HUNT FOR HUSBAND OF SUICIDE BOMBER
By VITNIJA SALDAVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV In this image made from video, experts and officials examine a wreckage of a bus in Volgograd, Russia Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. A female…
SUICIDE BOMBER STRIKES RUSSIAN BUS, KILLING 6
By LYNN BERRY A damaged bus is examined by experts in Volgograd, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. The blast was caused by “an unspecified explosive device,” the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said…