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Atlanta CNN — A US-Russian dual national working for Radio Free Europe has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, the US-funded news organization reported Wednesday. Alsu Kurmasheva is . . .
CSPAN/FILE Gal Luft speaks at a U.S. Energy Security Council conference on energy policy and security on October 15, 2013. CNN — US prosecutors unsealed an indictment Monday charging the co-director of a think tank with illicit arms trafficking, violating US sanctions laws, and other charges, five months after he was arrested in Cyprus and […]
Federal law enforcement agents in the U.S. have arrested a Los Angeles County man wanted by Mexican authorities in connection with the slayings of at least three Tijuana sex workers, according to officials in both countries. Bryant Rivera, a 30-year-old Downey resident, is charged in Baja California with at least one count of femicide and […]
Immigrant rights leader Gaby Pacheco is officially a United States citizen and she is celebrating in a big way with an American dream citizenship party. The official oath ceremony was on June 21st, but Pacheco told NBC6 that after a 30-year journey to become a U.S. citizen, she wanted to share the momentous occasion with […]
Boris and Karina Rotenberg. Getty Images In 2014, the U.S. sanctioned Boris Rotenberg, an oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It took another eight years before his wife Karina—a U.S. citizen—was targeted with sanctions in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In April 2015, attorneys working for the wife of a Russian […]
Palestinian rights advocates call for US sanctions on Israeli unit involved in the killing of 80-year-old Omar Assad. The United States will address the death of elderly American citizen Omar Assad, who was killed by Israeli forces last year, “directly” with Israel after the country’s military announced that it will not pursue criminal charges in […]
Comment on this storyComment An American expatriate living in Russia has been arrested there on drug charges, according to the U.S. State Department. Michael Travis Leake was arrested and is detained in Moscow, a State Department spokesperson said in an email, adding that embassy officials attended his arraignment on Saturday. “When a . . .
Silhouettes of detained people are seen in a police truck near the Moscow City Court during the trial of a Russian opposition leader in Moscow on February 2, 2021. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images Silhouettes of detained people are seen in a police truck near the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Esmita Spudes Bidari was a young girl in Nepal, she dreamed of being in the military, but that wasn’t a real option in her country. Last week, she raised her right hand and took the oath to join the U.S. Army Reserves, thanks in part to a recruiter in Dallas who […]
From Lovi Noch/Facebook American citizen Michael Travis Leake as seen in a still shared on Facebook, verified by CNN. CNN — A US citizen has been detained in Russia, according to a Telegram statement from Moscow’s courts of general jurisdiction. The man was detained on Saturday where “the . . .