MOSCOW: Top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was detained by police Tuesday after he violated his house arrest to join a protest in Moscow over a guilty verdict against him and his brother in a controversial fraud case. Dozens of other people were also detained as hundreds gathered in central Moscow after the charismatic 38-year-old opposition leader called on Russians...
Read MoreWhile family members mourned the loss Wednesday of AirAsia Flight 8501, the investigation into the doomed flight that likely led to the loss of all 162 aboard deepened. Debris from the flight, which was reported missing on Sunday during a trip from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore, turned up in the Java Sea about six miles from the plane’s last known point of...
Read More(CNN) — Ten people have now been confirmed dead after a ferry caught fire in the Adriatic Sea on Sunday, the Italian coast guard said on Twitter on Monday. It reported that 427 people have been rescued. The Italian coast guard earlier said that all remaining passengers had been evacuated from the vessel, with the boat’s commander finally leaving the ship...
Read More(CNN) — Ships, planes and helicopters have scoured waters off Indonesia’s coast in search of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, but so far they haven’t spotted any sign of the missing commercial jet. Now the search area teams are combing is set to be expanded. Four additional areas will be searched on Tuesday, in addition to the seven zones teams patrolled on...
Read MoreNorth Korea denounced U.S. President Barack Obama with a crude personal attack as it blamed the United States for intermittent Internet outages that have isolated Pyongyang during the past week, and recurred again on Saturday. A statement issued with apparent top-level North Korean approval contended Obama was responsible for Sony Pictures’ decision to release...
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