Mail-Order Brides Fight Predators and Rapists
NEW YORK -- It took Natasha a day trip to Moscow to find the American husband she had dreamed of. It took the next six years to get out of the nightmare that followed.
Over 1,100 interior troops killed in Chechen operation
MOSCOW, November 10 - A total of 1,183 interior troops have been killed since the anti-terrorist operation began in Chechnya, the first deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Interior Ministry’s Interior Troops reported at a meeting with military widows.
Uzbek National Security Service attacked journalist
TASHKENT, November 10 - The Uzbek National Security Service has described as provocative opposition journalist Alexei Volosevich`s claims that special services were involved in an attack on him.
Russian mayor commits suicide in prison hospital
MOSCOW, November 10 - The mayor of the city of Podolsk in the Moscow region, accused of organizing a double contract murder, on Wednesday committed suicide in the Matrosskaya Tishina investigation prison in Moscow, the acting head of the federal penitentiaries service told.
67 people died in explosions at Amman`s hotels
At least 67 people died and about 300 were injured as a result of 3 explosions occurred in Amman on Wednesday evening.
Amount of victims in Amman reached 52
At least 52 people have been killed and more than 120 were injured in explosions at international hotels in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
Ex-husband stole dental plate from his wife
Citizen of Chenoksary took a revenge on his wife for applying on divorce in an original way - he took her dental plate leaving the house. Discovering loss, woman reported at his husband to police.
Explosions rock Jordanian hotels
At least 23 people have been killed and many others injured in explosions at international hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman, security officials say.
Group of children missing in Krasnoyarsk
In Leningrad district of Krasnoyarsk schoolgirls of 1229, 1993 and 1995 years of birth are missing. Girls left house on November 5, last Saturday. Nobody saw them from that moment.
State of emergency declared in Paris
France`s government has issued a decree declaring a state of emergency in Paris and more than 30 other towns following a 13th night of rioting.
Find out how much your neighbour earns!
Illegal Database of Muscovites’ Incomes on Sale in Russian Capital. A database providing information about the annual income for 2004 of every Muscovite can be found in numerous computer shops across the Russian capital, the Vedomosti business daily reported.
Non-combat army deaths in Russia total 857 since January
MOSCOW, November 9 - Russia has seen 857 of its military servicemen killed in accidents or crimes since January 2005, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said at a meeting of top military commanders Wednesday.
Ukrainian Economic Court blocked by protesters
KIEV, November 9 -- Some 200 members of the Ukrainian Party of Defenders of Fatherland blocked the building of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine on Wednesday, demanding an immediate resignation of its chairman Dmitry Prityka.
Student used Internet chat rooms to arrange meeting for sex
An Arizona State University student was arrested Tuesday on charges of trying to arrange sex with a minor he met on the Internet, Tucson police said
Driver kills parents of one and a half year old twins
Moscow, Tuesday - a driver of the car "Gazel" ran into parents, walking with year and a half aged twins.
Russian reporter`s car pelted in Lyons
MOSCOW/PARIS, November 9 - Rioters in the eastern French city of Lyons threw rocks at a Russian TV reporter`s car in the early hours Wednesday.
Dutch Botnet Trio Reportedly Connected To Russian Mob
The three Dutch men arrested a month ago on charges of creating and using a botnet of some 1.5 million machines have connections to Russian organized crime, media reports from the Netherlands said Tuesday.
Court binds Ukraine to pay 100,000 euros to Gongadze widow
KIEV, November 9 -- The widow of Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze has won the case in the European Court of Human Rights, say a court press release distributed in Kiev
Youth kills one in school shooting: police
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee - A 14-year-old high school freshman shot and killed an assistant principal and wounded two colleagues on Tuesday when they confronted the boy about reports he had a gun, police said
Two boys drown in Urals ice tragedy
YEKATERINBURG, November 9 - Two young boys have drowned after falling through ice in a Urals village, a local official said Wednesday.
Earthquake measuring 4,3 points rocks Kamchatka
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, November 9 - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 points on the Richter scale rocked the Avachinsk Bay near the eastern coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, there have been no casualties or destruction, Russian Emergency Situations Ministry`s main department for the Kamchatka region told on Wednesday.
Russians die due to methanol poisoning
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, November 9 - A total of 33 people have died in Magadan as a result of methanol poisoning.
Iraq: Latest Killing Of Hussein Trial Lawyer Heightens Concerns
Two lawyers representing co-defendants of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein were shot on 8 November in Baghdad. Adil al-Zubaydi was killed instantly while Thamir Hamud Hadi al-Khuza`i was wounded; both men are listed on the Iraq Special Tribunal website as lawyers for former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan
Train with spent nuke fuel from Bulgaria comes to Russia
KRASNOYARSK, November 9 - A special train with 48 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel from the Kozlodui nuclear power plant in Bulgaria has arrived at the mining and chemical integrated plant in the city of Zheleznogorsk, Russia`s Krasnoyarsk territory. The plant`s sources told Itar-Tass on Wednesday specialists have begun to unload the nuclear fuel.
Three children, two adults dead in Tver region blaze
MOSCOW, November 9 - Three children and two adults have been killed in a fire that gutted a wooden house in the central Russian region of Tver, local police said Tuesday.