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Former military leader General Pervez Musharraf's return to Pakistan after years of self-exile has exposed him to a number of criminal cases related to his nine-year rule. RFE/RL looks at the events, accusations, and courts involved.
A court in the Russian region of Mordovia has denied a request for parole from Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of two jailed members of the feminist performance-art group Pussy Riot.
It's been a week since police suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev following a gunbattle that led to the death of his older brother and fellow suspect, Tamerlan. Evidence suggests the ethnic Chechen immigrants may have been independent radicals motivated by resentment of the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
U.S. President Barack Obama has promised a "vigorous investigation" into reports that Syrian forces have used chemical weapons.
Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry says a fire that engulfed a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Moscow has killed 38 people, two of them medical workers.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the surviving suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, told Boston investigators from his hospital bed that he and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who died after a shoot-out with police, had discussed going to New York to detonate their remaining explosives.
The parents of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are continuing to maintain their sons' innocence.
U.S. officials have met with the parents of suspected Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch jointly issued their reports to call attention to the "ongoing assault" on rights in Russia.
U.S. officials in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan have met for a second day with the mother of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Police in the southern Russian city of Belgorod say they have caught the prime suspect in the killing of six people on April 22.
The widow of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamarlan Tsarnaev says news of her late husband’s suspected involvement in the April 15 terror attack that killed three people and injured 270 came as "an absolute shock."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Moscow is studying proposed changes to the U.S. missile defense program, but still wants guarantees that the system would not be used against Russia.
Hackers have broken into the Twitter account of the Associated Press (AP) news agency, posting a false report about explosions at the White House injuring President Barack Obama.
NATO foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels for talks focusing on Afghanistan and a proposed missile-defense system.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says a planned multibillion-dollar arms deal will help Israel maintain its qualitative military superiority in the region.
The European Union has recommended that membership talks should be opened with Serbia and has given the green light for Kosovo to start talks on an association agreement with the bloc.
In a statement, the Justice Department said Tsarnaev has also has been charged with one count of malicious destruction of property by means of deadly explosives.
Serbia's government will debate an EU-brokered deal on normalizing relations with its former breakaway region of Kosovo.
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