Lawyer Dagir Hasavov The Yabloko party has addressed prosecutors after a Chechen lawyer said in a televised interview that Russian authorities should legalize Sharia courts – or face violence and bloodshed. Yabloko chairman Sergey Mitrokhin has said that his party suspected the lawyer, Dagir Khasavov (sometimes also spelled as Khasabov) of extremism after the native... 

Former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Jailed Ukrainian former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has gone on a hunger strike, protesting her treatment in prison and demanding an end to political repression. Ukraine’s jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been on a hunger strike for the past five days, protesting her treatment by prison guards and... 

North Korean poster North Korea said it will reduce South Korea’s government to ashes in a matter of minutes, should a military escalation of the decades-old conflict occur. ­The statement by the North’s military, carried by the state media, did not elaborate as to how exactly such an attack would be carried out. It mentions “special actions” that would “reduce... 

Former national security advisor to the US President Barack Obama, retired Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones. A former national security adviser to the US President Barack Obama says Washington has no reason to apologize to Israel for its handling of the Iranian nuclear energy program. “The Israelis have been given very very strong assurances about their security by... 

A bizarre report prepared by the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation that is circulating in the Kremlin today on the joint US-Russia military drills taking place next month in the State of Colorado says that the plans received from the Americans call for Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) during this strange exercise to “take and hold” the Central Intelligence... 

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has handed his government’s resignation to Queen Beatrix after talks on reducing the country’s budget to meet European guidelines failed. The government information service announced on Monday that the Queen accepted Rutte’s resignation and asked him to tend to urgent matters of the state until... 

Egypt has canceled its natural gas supply deal with Israel, insisting the move has nothing to do with politics. Israel downplayed the decision, which could further deteriorate bilateral ties that have decayed markedly since the Egyptian revolution. Egypt’s Natural Gas Holding Company announced the termination of the contract on Sunday, citing violations of contractual... 

More than 1,000 South Sudanese soldiers have been killed in the disputed oil-rich Heglig, following a fresh bombing raid by Sudanese warplanes. Reports say the number of dead bodies is so high and it is difficult to give an accurate estimation. Kamal Marouf, the Sudanese armed forces commander put the number of deaths at 1200. “The numbers of killed from SPLM are... 

Marine Le Pen, National Front Party Candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, salutes supporters in Paris after early results in the first round vote of the 2012 French presidential election, April 22, 2012 With the surprise breakthrough by the far-right in the first round of the French presidential poll, political pundits now say their supporters are in a... 

Marine Le Pen, who heads France's National Front party, has highlighted the country's right to defend its national identity France’s politics would appear to be in deceptively rude health. As Sunday’s first stage of the country’s two-round presidential election approaches, the vital indicators return vivid signs of life. Mass meetings in Paris and elsewhere... 

China will send 16 naval ships and two submarines to its first joint naval exercise with Russia, slated to start this weekend in the Yellow Sea, the Ministry of National Defense said on Tuesday. The drill, which Russian authorities said will involve warships cruising near Japanese waters, has rattled the nerves of media from Japan and South Korea. Japanese media speculated... 

Moscow has the largest Muslim population in Europe, with four mosques in the city serving more than two million people. The country has become a multi-confessional state in which Muslims and Christians have had to learn to live together. But according to experts, every day the problems connected with international and religious issues come up. On April 10, murder of... 

A North Korean soldier stands guard in front of an Unha-3 rocket at Tangachai-ri space center on April 8, 2012 Seoul claims North Korea is assembling another heavy ballistic missile similar to the ill-fated one launched on April 13. ­Seoul’s assumptions are based on American space reconnaissance data. They say both rockets were delivered at the site simultaneously... 

“What if aliens were to make contact—do we have an E.T. contingency plan? Sort of. The U.S. government is not particularly interested in alien planning.” -Slate, If Mars Attacks, Do we have an alien-contact contingency plan?, July 16, 2010 A bizarre scenario played out in Australia Easter morning: while children hunted for Easter eggs and the faithful attended... 

A YFP Gas tanker Argentina has ordered the seizure of YFP Gas, another company controlled by the Spanish firm Repsol, as part of plans to take control of the country’s natural resources and increase production. “There’s a division (of Repsol) called YPF Gas and that’s what will be expropriated,” Argentine Senator Marcelo Fuentes said on Wednesday. The...