A spectator has died after a crash involving a British driver at the VLN Endurance Championship in Germany. Jann Mardenborough crashed his Nissan GTR Nismo in the first race of the season at the Nurburgring Nordschleife. The 23-year-old driver from Cardiff was taken to hospital for checks while several...
Uzbekistan has been voting in a presidential election all but certain to be won by long-term incumbent Islam Karimov. He faces three other candidates for the position but all come from parties supporting his presidency. Opposition activists are in jail or live abroad; independent challengers were not...
France will elect thousands of local councillors on Sunday as it holds the second round of departmental elections. These elections are seen as a test case ahead of 2017's presidential election. Former president Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP lead after last week's first round. Marine Le Pen's...
BOSTON — A suspect in a traffic stop opened fire on police on Friday evening and seriously wounded an officer before being killed by other officers at the scene, CBS Boston reported. An apparent bystander also was shot. The wounded officer, identified as 34-year-old John Moynihan, was shot just below his...
TUNIS, Tunisia — A leading suspect in a deadly museum attack on foreign tourists has been killed in anti-terrorist operations, Tunisia's prime minister said on Sunday. State news agency TAP cites Prime Minister Habib Essid as saying that Khaled Chaieb, also known as Abou Sakhr Lokman, was killed...
The head of NATO is dismissing the latest allegations by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who accused the West of trying to undermine his rule and destabilize his country. “It’s just another example of the type of propaganda that Russia is doing in many different frameworks,” NATO Secretary...
A U.S. astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut are headed for a year in outer space, the longest stay ever at the International Space Station. The two men and a second cosmonaut were aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that blasted off Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russia's space launch facility....
According to Deputy Speaker and former NSDC Secretary of Ukraine, Putin can be stopped either by sanctions or military means, but not by negotiations. Russia might start active hostilities against Ukraine in the Donbas in the coming weeks. "Large number of troops has been pulled by Russia to the border...
Russian Embassy in Canada calls it "five minutes of hate" Chris Alexander's statement about Putin. Canada's Minister of Immigration says Putin is a "terrorist." According to the Huffington Post, the Minister has made the following statement during his speech for the Congress of...
"Rosoboronexport" CEO's adviser: Russia has lost half of its defense industry sector Alexander Bryndykov, the head of the advisory group to "Rosoboronexport" CEO, announced that although Russia is currently ranked as the second among countries exporting weapons and military equipment, it has...
Eurozone countries have found no legal basis for the allocation of funds for Greece from bank recapitalization fund. Brussels has rejected a Greek request to provide 1.2 billion euro. Eurozone countries found no legal basis for the allocation of funds for Athens from bank recapitalization fund. At the same...
The number of asylum seekers from Ukraine has grown more than tenfold – from 1,400 to 15,700 people. The number of forced refugees who requested asylum in developed countries increased by 45% in 2014 comparatively to the previous year. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,...