In what has been described as a scene from a mafia movie, a journalist in Brooklyn, New York, narrowly escaped being ...

Fifteen members of a Ukrainian militia group were convicted by a Russian military court on Friday of taking part in "a terrorist organisation" and sentenced to between 15 and 21 years in a maximum ...

A French racer who spent 50 days in detention in Russia says he is aiming to break a new record, after his hopes of achieving the fastest bicycle ride from Portugal to the Pacific Ocean were shattered ...

BRUSSELS, Oct 23 (Reuters) - EU countries on Thursday formally adopted a 19th package of sanctions against Russia for its war ...

The Frenchman’s misadventure has not put him off more adventurous rides, although he cautioned against attempting to outwit ...

Deep in Moscow’s Lefortovo District stands a place few outsiders have ever entered — Lefortovo Prison, a fortress of silence built during the Tsarist era and later used by the KGB. Founded in 1881, it ...

French police have detained four people suspected of plotting an attack on exiled Russian rights activist Vladimir Osechkin.

Two Russian mobsters have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison for agreeing to try to assassinate Iranian American ...

French ultra-distance rider Sofiane Sehili has recognised that he "wasn't so smart" after his attempt to cross the ...

Federal prosecutors wrote in court papers that Amirov and Omarov “sought to soak the Brooklyn streets with the victim’s blood ...