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Pussy Riot punk Alyokhina freed from Russian prison: lawyer
One of the jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, was freed from prison on Monday after receiving amnesty.
23 December 2013
US charges three more people in Silk Road website case
US authorities said Friday three more people were charged in connection with the operation of Silk Road, the online black market bazaar for drugs, hacker tools and other illicit goods.
22 December 2013
Scandal-hit Turkey PM presses police purge
Turkish prosecutors have begun charging some of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's closest allies in a huge graft scandal he has responded to with a spectacular purge of the police.
21 December 2013
Kazakh teen released on bail is electronically tagged in London
The Kazakh teenager, arrested on charges of sexual harassment, was released on bailed but has to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet.
20 December 2013
'Breaking Bad' namesake meth dealer gets 12 years' jail
A US judge has sentenced meth dealer Walter White to 12 years in prison, in a case of life mirroring art a few months after the end of cult TV show "Breaking Bad," local media reported.
19 December 2013
US Supreme Court to hear Kirill Denyakin murder case
Kirill's mother has shared her further plans to turn around the case of Kirill Denyakin, who was unarmed by shot dead with 11 bullets by a U.S. policeman.
17 December 2013
Rakhat Aliyev eyeing Cypriot citizenship
Rakhat Aliyev intends to obtain the citizenship of Cyprus: German lawyer Lothar de Maiziere.
17 December 2013
Bride kidnapping is medieval: Governor of South Kazakhstan oblast
Askar Myrzakhmetov, Akim (Governor) of South Kazakhstan oblast, has called bride kidnapping a medieval act.
16 December 2013
New US school shooting on eve of Newtown anniversary
A schoolboy gunman wounded two fellow students Friday, one critically, before killing himself in the latest such US shooting on the the eve of the first anniversary of the Newtown massacre.
14 December 2013
Kazakhstan Financial Police spends $162,000 to reward 100 for info about corruption
The Financial Police of Kazakhstan has paid over $160 thousand in rewards for reporting corruption crimes to 100 Kazakhstan nationals.
13 December 2013
French court urged to extradite Kazakhstan tycoon Ablyazov
Prosecutors on Thursday urged a French court to grant requests from Russia and Ukraine for the extradition of exiled Kazakh oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov wanted on embezzlement charges.
13 December 2013
Ethiopia's colossal human airlift from Saudi Arabia
When Ethiopia started repatriating its citizens living illegally in Saudi Arabia last month, 30,000 people were expected to return.
13 December 2013
Vietnam shipping executives on trial for embezzlement
Former top executives at Vietnam's scandal-hit national shipping company Vinalines went on trial Thursday for embezzlement and defying state regulations.
12 December 2013
US actress pleads guilty to Obama, Bloomberg ricin plot
A 36-year-old actress from Texas on Tuesday pleaded guilty to mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control activist, federal prosecutors said.
11 December 2013
Nairobi mall attackers may have escaped: NYC police
The four attackers responsible for killing at least 67 people at a Kenyan shopping mall may have escaped due to lax security.
11 December 2013
Star wine dealer goes on trial for fraud in NYC
Star Indonesian-born wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan went on trial in New York Monday, accused of blending ordinary wines into fake vintages in his California kitchen to sell to wealthy collectors.
10 December 2013
North Korea says leader's uncle sacked for 'criminal' acts
North Korea has said leader Kim Jong-Un's uncle was removed from office for committing "criminal" acts and for leading a "counter-revolutionary faction", state news agency KCNA reported Monday.
09 December 2013
FBI Director invited to Kazakhstan
Prosecutor General of Kazakhstan Akshat Daulbayev invited Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Comey to Kazakhstan.
05 December 2013
French court starts Ablyazov's extradition hearing
Aix-en-Provence court of France is hearing the extradition case of the former head of Kazakhstan's BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov.
05 December 2013
One year on, Newtown voices revive pain of massacre
One year after a gunman burst into a US school and slaughtered 20 small children and six adults, the voices of their trapped and terrified protectors returned Wednesday to haunt survivors.
05 December 2013
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