Assange to accept arrest if UN panel rules against him
By GREGORY KATZ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will accept arrest by British police if a U.N. working group investigating his claims decides that the three years he has…
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Joseph Fiennes to play Michael Jackson in TV drama
Joseph Fiennes will star as Michael Jackson in a one-off TV comedy set to broadcast later this year — a casting decision that has added fuel to a raging debate…
The Latest: Norway, Russia to talk on migrant deportations
The latest developments in Europe’s immigration crisis (all times local): 7:50 p.m. Norway says it will hold talks with Moscow on Monday to discuss the deportation of asylum-seekers to Russia…
UK judge: Putin probably approved plan to poison ex-spy
By JILL LAWLESS President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by Russia’s FSB security service to kill a former agent-turned-Kremlin critic who died after drinking tea laced with radioactive poison,…
North Korea says it tested H-bomb to widespread skepticism
By FOSTER KLUG South Korea (AP) — Soon after the ground shook around its nuclear testing facility, North Korea trumpeted its first hydrogen bomb test — a self-proclaimed “H-bomb of…
Prominent Putin foe may seek asylum in UK after new arrest
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and once Russia’s richest man, may seek asylum in Britain following the declaration in Moscow that he had been arrested…
British troops deploy to Afghan province amid Taliban battle
By LYNNE O’DONNELL When Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani took office, he ushered in a period of hope for the country’s traumatized and war-weary people that decades of violence would soon…
Rupert Murdoch’s UK papers won’t face phone hacking charges
By JILL LAWLESS More than four years after revelations of tabloid phone hacking shocked Britain, prosecutors said Friday that the criminal investigation is over, ruling out corporate prosecution of Rupert…