He was accused of beating and robbing a 92-year-old war veteran and his family went on a prime-time TV show to beg forgiveness. But now that the case has stalled, an Uzbek migrant in Russia is speaking out about his arrest and the TV station's treatment of his family.
At the height of the Cold War, pianist Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., better known as Van Cliburn, connected with the Soviet Union in a way no other American could.
The lawyer for the parents of Max Shatto, the Russian adoptee whose death last month in the United States provoked outrage in Moscow, says bruises found on the child's body were "self-inflicted." Michael J. Brown said an emotional disturbance was behind the child's actions.
Years after three young men were tortured to death after being detained for participating in mass protests that followed Iran's 2009 presidential election, the man held responsible has finally gone on trial. Outside observers of the closed-door trial, however, hold out little hope for justice.
China wants to turn Pakistan's port of Gwadar, located in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan, into a regional trade hub and possible naval facility. Islamabad sees the potential to improve the local economy and mood of the province's inhabitants. Many Baluchis, however, see an effort to sink their separatist aims.
Each time a domestic terror suspect is arrested, the U.S. public is told that another horrific plot has been averted. But journalist Trevor Aaronson has come to a different conclusion -- that most of the men arrested could never have done what they were accused of if the FBI hadn’t given them the tools to do so.
Tehran says it is installing faster, more efficient centrifuges for uranium enrichment, so clearly sanctions don't work. That is, unless Iran is bluffing.
Afghanistan's president has ordered all U.S. Special Forces out of the strategic province of Wardak just west of Kabul -- raising questions about the impact Afghan security forces will have in the country after most foreign troops withdraw by the end of 2014.
In Azerbaijan, the life of former leader Heydar Aliyev is inspiring a new field of study. It’s called AliyevScience.
What to do about the 11 million illegal immigrants who live in the United States? That's the question at the heart of the current debate in Washington on immigration reform, and many are backing a path to “earned citizenship.”
Max Shatto, a 3-year-old Russian adoptee, died in the small town of Gardendale, Texas, last month under uncertain circumstances, touching off an international scandal. While much remains a mystery, local officials now say a medical ruling on the boy's death is imminent. That comes as details about the day the child died, as well as accounts of his adoptive mother, begin trickling in.
The government of Bulgaria has resigned. In the wake of the problems in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, is Bulgaria the next EU problem child?
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