US soldier confesses to Afghan mass killings - report
US soldier Robert Bales charged with massacring 16 people, nine of them children, in southern Afghanistan last year pleaded guilty in an attempt to avoid a death penalty.
New York Attorney General sues HSBC for violating foreclosure law
New York Attorney General's Office is suing HSBC Holdings Plc for allegedly breaking the New York foreclosure law. The company has reportedly failed to meet requirements for giving homeowners the opportunity to negotiate loan modifications.
US introduces currency sanctions against Iran
The United States has introduced additional sanctions against Iran designed to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the White House has announced on Tuesday.
US Justice Department reports substantial increase in Indian country prosecutions
Criminal prosecutions have increased significantly in America’s Indian country since 2009, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed Thursday as it announced the release of a report entitled “Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions” to Congress.
Dima Yakovlev law to stay in place - ombudsman
The Dima Yakovlev law will be neither reviewed nor canceled, Children's Rights Commissioner Pavel Astakhov told journalists on Friday. The Dima Yakovlev law prohibiting US nationals from adopting Russian children was signed by President Vladimir Putin in late 2012 and came into force in January 2013.
Swiss officials authorize enhanced cooperation between banks and US authorities
Swiss government officials approved a bill Wednesday that would allow banks to resolve their disputes with US authorities by authorizing cooperation between the banks and authorities in certain capacities, according to a statement released by the Swiss Federal Council.
US Congress delegation visits Russia to discuss Boston attack probe
US lawmakers plan to discuss the progress of the probe into the bomb attack on Boston Marathon with their Russian colleagues, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the California Republican leading the delegation.
US company's defamation suit against Russian social network adjourned till June
The Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region on Tuesday announced a recess until June 5 in the defamation proceedings between US company Talk Fusion and popular Russian social networking company VKontakte, RIA Novosti reports from the courtroom.
As media reels from AP probe, Russian-US crime ring suspects urge hunt for leaks
Attorneys for Illya and Vadim Trincher – two men accused by US authorities of having played leading roles in interconnected Russian-American organized criminal enterprises – claimed last week that some of the evidence that US investigators gathered against them by means of electronic surveillance was leaked to reporters for the New York Times, according to court documents obtained by RAPSI.
US lifts Belarusian arms exporter sanctions
The US State Department has lifted sanctions against Belarusian arms exporter Beltechexport, which it imposed against the company almost two years ago.
Russia, US to boost law enforcement cooperation
Russia and the United States may set up joint working groups to counter emerging crime threats, Russia’s Interior Minister said at the end of a working visit to the United States.
Ex-Russian senator's New York apartment at center of lawsuit – report
The landlord of a resident of New York City’s famed Time Warner Center has filed a complaint with the Supreme Court for the State of New York seeking an order for renovations to be halted in a condominium reportedly belonging to Russian billionaire and former senator Vitaly Malkin.
Washington man arrested for sending ricin-laced letter to US federal judge
US authorities Wednesday arrested a man charged with mailing letters containing the deadly poison ricin to a US federal judge in Spokane, Washington, as well as a local postal official.
Russian wanted in the US for arms trafficking detained in Lithuania
Lithuanian and US law enforcement officers have detained a suspected Russian arms dealer, Dmitry Ustinov, at Vilnius Airport.
US bars Ukrainian prosecutors from questioning former PM Lazarenko - official
US authorities are preventing Ukrainian prosecutors from questioning former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko on murder charges, says Ukraine's First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin.
US Senate committee approves bill aimed at supporting Syrian opposition
The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations approved by a vote of 15 to three Tuesday the Syria Transition Support Act, a bill that would authorize the US government to provide lethal assistance and training to Syrian rebel forces, impose sanctions for the sale of weapons and petroleum to President Bashar al Assad’s regime, deliver humanitarian resources, and plan for a “Post-Assad Syria.”
US court upholds CIA decision to withhold bin Laden attack, burial photos
A federal appeals court in Washington DC Tuesday affirmed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) acted properly in refusing to disclose 52 post-mortem images of al Qaeda Osama bin Laden as the images were properly classified as Top Secret.
US family waives custody of adopted Russian orphans
A US court has granted the request of a US family seeking to terminate their custody of three adopted Russian orphans, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services spokeswoman Shari Pulliam, told RIA Novosti.
Prosecutors, Tsarnaev seek continuance in Boston Bombing case
Federal prosecutors and suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev jointly filed Monday for a continuance of the upcoming probable cause hearing until July 2 at the earliest.
US company seeks default judgment against Dagestan company
US-based glass engineering firm Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. (Teichmann) filed an affidavit for the entry of a default judgment against Dagestani glass company Caspian Flat Glass OJSC (Caspian) last week based on the failure of the latter to timely respond to a complaint and summons served last month amidst effort to compel arbitration in Zurich.