France Freezes Russian Bank Accounts In Magnitsky-Inspired Fraud Case
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French authorities have frozen millions of euros in bank accounts after launching an investigation into an alleged Russian fraud scheme uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky, a Moscow lawyer who died in a Russian jail.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has warned there is still a risk of heavy fighting in Ukraine and urged Moscow to halt its support for separatists.
Former Hungarian Service deputy director recounts perilous escape from Hungary during the 1956 uprising and his work for Radio Free Europe.
Protesters flew the Armenian flag, chanted slogans, and helped clean the streets on June 25 after they spent another night on the capital's central Bagramian Avenue. The demonstrations have swelled into the thousands in recent days in protest against a planned hike in electricity prices.
Ukrainian police and a National Guard unit practiced defending territory from a potential attack in the city of Dobropillya, near rebel-held territory in Donbas. Members of the Azov Regiment, formerly a volunteer militia, took part in the drills.
A Russian court has arrested a dual Russian-Lithuanian national on treason charges.
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President Vladimir Putin has vowed to continue a sweeping military modernization effort, saying a "powerful army equipped with modern weapons is the guarantor of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia."
Vytautas Landsbergis, the first independent leader of Lithuania after the fall of the Soviet Union, describes RFE/RL as a vital source of independent news and information for listeners in the Eastern Block, saying the renewal of propaganda in Russian language media makes RFE/RL’s mission as important now as ever. (Produced by Anna Sous and Andrew Wills).
Children are terrified by noises. Finding food is a challenge. There’s rarely power. Many people in Yemen and beyond dream of an end to the fighting.
Homeland Security officials announced plans to end the long-term detention of mothers with children caught crossing the border illegally by allowing most to be released on bond.
In rescuing his trade legislation, the president worked with Republicans but may have worsened relations with fellow Democrats.
As they waited at the border to cross into Turkey on Thursday, relatives of a woman who died after being wounded in Kobani, northern Syria, mourned over her body.
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ISIS Attacks Two Border Towns in Northern Syriaby BEN HUBBARD and MAHER SAMAAN
As they waited at the border to cross into Turkey on Thursday, relatives of a woman who died after being wounded in Kobani, in northern Syria, mourned over her body.
Militants launch attacks in 2 places close to Turkish border, including 1 where U.S. air power helped turn them back almost a year ago
Consumers in all states are eligible for Obamacare tax credits, Supreme Court rules, even in states that rely on the federal exchange
Wall Street reacts to high court ruling, which one analyst says should discourage future attempts at rescinding the law
ISIS is reportedly digging trenches and calling on reinforcements to prepare for a possible assault by Kurdish forces on their stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria, activists and a Kurdish official told CNN on Wednesday.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth appeared to be unimpressed by a portrait painted of her as a child. Art critic Estelle Lovatt joins CNN Today to explain what the artist might've been going for.
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Rwanda's President Paul Kagame launches a scathing verbal attack on the UK government after the arrest of its intelligence chief in London.
Rwanda's intelligence chief Karenzi Karake is released on bail of £1m ($1.6m) in London after his arrest on Saturday.
The Latest: Obama says health law is 'here to stay'by By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the Supreme Court's decision on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. (All times Eastern)...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States' intelligence chief said on Thursday that China was the top suspect in a hack of a U.S. agency that compromised the personnel records of millions of Americans, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
How Egyptian media has become a mouthpiece for the military state by Nour Youssef in Cairo
With imprisonment of journalists at an all-time high, Nour Youssef speaks to leading journalists about their inability to criticise the government
When Tahrir Square was flooded with Egyptians calling for former president Hosni Mubarak’s downfall, journalists were divided: jump ship, or defend the president?
Some, like Ibrahim Eissa, joined the calls of the protesters, co-founding the daily newspaper El-Tahrir (The Liberation). Others, like then-state TV presenter Khairy Ramadan, turned on demonstrators, suggesting they were funded by foreign conspirators.
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The Queen was not impressed with a painting presented to her by Germany – but she can take heart that it wasn’t a tub of goose fat or a Komodo dragon
We already know that Her Majesty has incredible fashion game (often featuring in best dressed lists) and that she is handy with a Leica. Now it turns out Elizabeth is also the Queen of throwing shade.
Upon visiting the German president, Joachim Gauck, Elizabeth II was presented with a Nicole Leidenfrost painting. The work, which resembled a George Stubbs piece – if Stubbs had been a Central Saint Martins student off his tits on Quaaludes – features a young Liz on horseback.
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