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A Russian military court is set to announce its verdict against a Ukrainian filmmaker who faces a lengthy prison term on terror charges in a trial decried by the West.

• 25 августа 2015, 17:28

An unknown man assaulted a currency exchange office in Astana on August 17. Police made an arrest the same day.

• 24 августа 2015, 20:34

Reeva Steenkamp's devastated parents remain adamant Oscar Pistorius deliberately killed their daughter, telling Australian television their life has been ruined.

• 24 августа 2015, 15:29

A Can$760 million (US$578 million) class action lawsuit has been launched against the owner of affair-seeking website Ashley Madison.

• 22 августа 2015, 12:30

Brazilian prosecutors lodged corruption charges against the speaker of the lower house -- a key figure in the country's current political crisis -- and also against a former president.

• 21 августа 2015, 15:46

Thailand's police chief insisted his officers were making "a lot of progress" in the hunt for the Bangkok shrine bomber despite the lack of arrests and mystery over the attackers' motives.

• 21 августа 2015, 15:26

Transgender Olympic champion Caitlyn Jenner could face misdemeanor manslaughter charges over a deadly car crash in February when Los Angeles police reveal the results of an investigation into the accident next week.

• 21 августа 2015, 14:16

The United States called on Russia to release an Estonian intelligence officer who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying and weapons possession, calling the charges "baseless."

• 20 августа 2015, 10:57

Russian police said they had detained an "international criminal gang" that produced contraband cheese worth some $30 million using banned Western ingredients.

• 19 августа 2015, 10:19

Hip-hop star Drake condemned rising violence in Toronto after two people died in a shooting linked to his festival, breaking more than a week of silence.

• 15 августа 2015, 13:40

The Ikea branch in central Sweden where two shoppers were fatally stabbed -- reportedly with knives taken from the shelves -- will temporarily stop knife sales.

• 12 августа 2015, 11:54

Kazakhstan is considering pros and cons of introducing chemical castration for convicted pedophiles.

• 11 августа 2015, 20:29

The leader of a group searching for 43 missing students in Mexico has been killed near the resort town of Acapulco.

• 11 августа 2015, 14:15

Pakistani police arrested five more people over a major child sex abuse scandal after a lawyer for the victims accused them of protecting culprits.

• 11 августа 2015, 11:56

A day of peaceful remembrance marking the anniversary of a black teen's killing by police in the US city of Ferguson came to a violent end Sunday as gunfire left at least one protester injured.

• 10 августа 2015, 13:27

A Pakistani province announced a judicial inquiry into a massive child abuse and extortion scandal allegedly involving hundreds of victims amid mounting calls for justice.

• 10 августа 2015, 11:13

Multiple bombings rocked Kabul, killing at least 35 people and wounding hundreds more in the first major attacks in the Afghan capital.

• 08 августа 2015, 13:51

A former prime minister was drawn into the complex web of historic child sex abuse allegations in Britain, when the police watchdog announced an investigation involving 1970s leader Edward Heath.

• 04 августа 2015, 13:15

A New York judge scheduled a retrial next year in the 1979 kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old boy that continues to haunt millions of American parents.

• 04 августа 2015, 12:29

The US jury deciding the fate of James Holmes, who gunned down 12 people at a "Batman" movie premiere, refused to take the death penalty off the table.

• 04 августа 2015, 11:50