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Deadly train crash in Russia kills at least nine
A collision Tuesday between a cargo train and a passenger train near Moscow killed at least nine people and left up to ...Swiss bank pleads guilty to US tax evasion, fined $2.6bn
Swiss bank Credit Suisse pleaded guilty Monday to the charge that it facilitated wealthy Americans who sought to commit tax evasion, becoming ...British imam Abu Hamza al-Masri convicted of U.S. terrorism charges
A New York jury convicted British hate preacher Abu Hamza on 11 kidnapping and terrorism charges Monday, opening the way for a ...Mladic defense opens at UN war tribunal
Ratko Mladic\'s defence case opens at the Yugoslav war crimes court on Monday, with the Bosnian Serb ex-army chief accused of masterminding ...Thousands flee deadly floods in Serbia and Bosnia
Tens of thousands of people fled their homes Monday in Bosnia and Serbia, as rising floodwaters surged into villages and towns, killing ...French journalist killed in the Central African Republic
The French president\'s office said Tuesday the body of Camille Lepage was found by French peacekeepers in a vehicle they stopped that ...Ukraine hosts national unity talks to end crisis
Ukraine launches Western-sponsored roundtable "national unity" talks on Wednesday but without pro-Moscow rebels who are waging an armed insurgency in the east ...Oscar-winning Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul dies at 36
Swedish film director Malik Bendjelloul, who directed the 2012 Oscar winning documentary Searching For Sugar Man, has died aged just 36. According ...Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist ambush
An ambush by pro-Russian separatists has killed seven Ukrainian soldiers, the heaviest loss of life for government forces in a single clash ...Italy: Lazio offers €800 reward for home births
The president of Rome\'s Lazio region has signed a decree to pay €800 to mothers who choose to give birth at home, ...