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Maria Alyokhina
May 23, 2013
7:27 pm
A Russian court has rejected a parole request by hunger-striking Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, despite pleas for leniency from former Beatle Paul McCartney, Patti Smith and Peter Gabriel.
May 23, 2013
7:08 pm
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Turkish-Armenian blogger Sevan Nisanyan was sentenced on Wednesday to a year in jail for blasphemy over a blog supporting a controversial anti-Islam film.
May 23, 2013
6:27 pm
Shuan shuan panda
Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing revealed Thursday that he was once attacked by a panda when the animal jumped on him at a zoo.
May 23, 2013
5:51 pm
Caucasus attack 04 24 2013
Incident part of ongoing violence in Russia's restive North Caucasus.
Need to Know, Russia
May 23, 2013
4:26 pm
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Germany overtook Japan at first place in a survey carried out in 25 countries.
May 23, 2013
3:33 pm
woolwich attack
The high-profile attack on a British soldier stands in contrast to the little-noted knifing of a Muslim man in Birmingham.
May 23, 2013
3:21 pm
Paris eiffel tower couple kissing
French lawmakers back a controversial plan to offer more university courses in English.
May 23, 2013
3:13 pm
English Defense League protests
In the wake of the horrific Woolwich attack, members of the EDL have taken to the streets in protest. Who are they and what do they stand for?
May 23, 2013
2:56 pm
Woolwich attack 6 1
Mourners laid flowers Thursday near the site of a brutal knife attack the day before.
United Kingdom
May 23, 2013
1:38 pm
Woolwich 05 23 2012
David Cameron says the assault will only “make us stronger.”
PHOTO GALLERY
May 23, 2013
12:49 pm
greece child poverty
A new UN report says that the crisis has left one in three children in Greece living in poverty.