US soldier confesses to Afghan mass killings - reportUS 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.12:35 06.06.2013
New York Attorney General sues HSBC for violating foreclosure lawNew 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.12:41 05.06.2013
US introduces currency sanctions against IranThe United States has introduced additional sanctions against Iran designed to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the White House has announced on Tuesday.12:21 04.06.2013
US Justice Department reports substantial increase in Indian country prosecutionsCriminal 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.19:48 31.05.2013
Dima Yakovlev law to stay in place - ombudsmanThe 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 2013.15:52 31.05.2013
Swiss officials authorize enhanced cooperation between banks and US authoritiesSwiss 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.16:20 30.05.2013
US Congress delegation visits Russia to discuss Boston attack probeUS 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.11:47 30.05.2013
US company's defamation suit against Russian social network adjourned till JuneThe 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.11:29 29.05.2013
As media reels from AP probe, Russian-US crime ring suspects urge hunt for leaksAttorneys 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.13:09 28.05.2013
US lifts Belarusian arms exporter sanctionsThe US State Department has lifted sanctions against Belarusian arms exporter Beltechexport, which it imposed against the company almost two years ago.14:11 27.05.2013
Russia, US to boost law enforcement cooperationRussia 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.11:36 24.05.2013
Ex-Russian senator's New York apartment at center of lawsuit – reportThe 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.19:37 23.05.2013
Washington man arrested for sending ricin-laced letter to US federal judgeUS 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.13:33 23.05.2013
Russian wanted in the US for arms trafficking detained in LithuaniaLithuanian and US law enforcement officers have detained a suspected Russian arms dealer, Dmitry Ustinov, at Vilnius Airport.12:52 23.05.2013
US bars Ukrainian prosecutors from questioning former PM Lazarenko - officialUS authorities are preventing Ukrainian prosecutors from questioning former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko on murder charges, says Ukraine's First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin.12:23 23.05.2013
US Senate committee approves bill aimed at supporting Syrian oppositionThe 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.”19:09 22.05.2013
US court upholds CIA decision to withhold bin Laden attack, burial photosA 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.14:19 22.05.2013
US family waives custody of adopted Russian orphansA 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.11:49 22.05.2013
Prosecutors, Tsarnaev seek continuance in Boston Bombing caseFederal 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.12:45 21.05.2013
US company seeks default judgment against Dagestan companyUS-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.18:53 20.05.2013