Russian media question official version of death of Yuri Ivanov, that he died going for a swim. A mysterious accident in which one of Russia’s most powerful spies was found dead on a Turkish beach has provoked speculation that the deputy head of the country’s foreign military intelligence service had been murdered. The badly decomposed body of Yuri Ivanov... 

In this Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, a Rwandan Hutu rebel gropes a local woman as he passes her on a crowded mountain path near the village of Kimua in eastern Congo. Medical agency: Gunmen fire on plane with international aid workers landing in east Congo. Gunmen in eastern Congo fired Wednesday on a private plane carrying international aid workers who escaped into the forest... 

You certainly won’t see this make any headlines in the state-run media. According to the FBI there are more hate crimes against Caucasians than against Muslims in the United States. McClatchy reported: Hate crimes directed against Muslims remain relatively rare, notwithstanding the notoriety gained by incidents such as recent vandalism at the Madera Islamic Center. Jews,... 

Former President of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana who lives in exile, Saturday (28/08/2010), was sentenced to hard labor for life for their part in the incident known as the murder of February 7, 2009. “Ravalomanana has sentence without his presence to forced labor for life for murder and additional murders,” said Hanitra Razafimanantsoa, lawyer president... 

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state’s controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations’ human rights commissioner. The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,... 

Federal officials announced Friday they had arrested 370 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally or convicted of other crimes as part of a three-day roundup in the Midwest. Arrests were made in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota and Nebraska, officials said. Those arrested were legal immigrants with convictions that made... 

“We’re under siege,” said rancher Ed Ashurst as he pointed to where he had tracked the killer of his friend and neighbor to the U.S.-Mexico border. “Five years ago, we didn’t even bother to lock our doors. Now my wife and I carry firearms everywhere we go.” John Ladd is a fifth-generation cattle rancher in southern Cochise County,... 

Residents stand behind a picture of Edelmiro Cavazos, the mayor of Santiago, Mexico, who was abducted and slain by a drug cartel The murder scarred a part of Mexico that was supposed to be reasonably safe from violence and crime. Santiago is a picturesque town of waterfalls, colonial churches and holiday homes for the rich. Its mayor, Edelmiro Cavazos, was a blue-eyed... 

Click on the image to enlarge it Six years after his brother was beheaded by Iraqi insurgents, Riyad is still haunted by the memory of identifying the disfigured body and watching the mutilation on a video distributed by the killers. Yet Riyad now has fresh worries to contend with: the threat of deportation from Sweden, which recently rejected his application for asylum.... 

A beggar on the streets of Venice. The Italian remarks come hot on the heels of Roma expulsions in France Italy has said it intends to expel citizens from other EU states if they are not able to support themselves, in a move apparently inspired by France’s current crackdown on Roma. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday... 

Governor Jan Brewer signing the SB 1070 anti-illegal immigration law during a press conference in Phoenix Arizona. Twenty-two states are now in the process of drafting or seeking to pass legislation similar to Arizona’s law against illegal immigration. This is occurring despite the fact that the Obama administration has filed a lawsuit against the Arizona law and a... 

French authorities have said the majority are returning on a voluntary basis But as the 124 people landed in Timisoara, in their native Romania, many said they planned to head straight back to France. “Of course I’m thinking about returning to France. Life is better than in Romania,” said 26-year-old Ionut Balasz as he arrived in Romania. Aurel Cioaba... 

Dariusz Ratajczak American writer JP Bellinger dose not rule out the the involvement of Israeli spy agency, Mossad, in the tragic death of a Polish historian, who was researching on the Holocaust. Dariusz Ratajczak, a former professor at the University of Opole, was found dead in a car parked near a shopping center in Opole on June 11, 2010. Forensic reports indicated... 

Utah State Representative Stephen Sandstrom has introduced an immigration bill which in some ways may be tougher than Arizona’s embroiled S.B. 1070, yet omits the “onerous” and “punitive” aspects of the bill. Rep. Sandstrom said he might be willing to bend on some minor points of the bill to improve its chance of passage, but will not compromise on allowing... 

A grim Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) report prepared for Prime Minister Putin states that a British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also known as MI6) ‘hit team’ was behind the assassination Matthew Simmons [photo top right] who was one of the United States top oil experts and the most outspoken critic of the US and BP’s handling of the Gulf of...