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Chinese Doctor Admits To Stealing Babies In Child Trafficking Case
A Chinese doctor, Zhang Shuxia, admitted to stealing babies from families she was close to and then selling them into human trafficking, state media said. She is expected to face harsh punishment under Chinese law.
Six of the …
Chinese Helicopter Rescued All 52 Passengers From Stranded Ship In Antarctica
Stuck since Christmas Eve, researchers and crew members of the icebound Russian research ship seemed to be in high spirits throughout their ordeal. Some broke down in tears, though, once they were safely away from the ice.
Helicopter Rescue Planned For Ship Stranded in Antarctic
A Russian ship with 74 researchers and crew members has been stranded in Antarctica for nearly a week. Numerous rescue missions have failed. They will have to be rescued by air.
Second Deadly Blast Hits Southern Russian City
Explosion in Volgograd claims at least 14 lives and comes a day after 17 people were killed in a suicide bombing at the city’s central station
Russian Passenger Ship Trapped in Antarctic Ice
Nearest rescue vessel is two days away
WWII Hero Codebreaker Gets Belated Pardon
British code-breaker Alan Turing has been called a genius, a war hero and one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. But he was gay, and in 1952 was convicted of homosexuality.
Freed Member of Pussy Riot Calls for Boycott of Russia’s Winter Olympics
The singer railed against Russia’s prison system, calling it a “totalitarian machine”
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Soviet Inventor of the AK-47, Dies at 94
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Soviet general who designed the ubiquitous automatic weapon that now bears his name, died on Dec. 23 at the age of 94. Iterations of the gun he invented now exist in the tens of millions, making it the …
Freed Pussy Riot Members Call Putin’s Amnesty A ‘PR stunt’
In Latest North Korea Trip, Dennis Rodman Went Horseback Riding But Did Not Meet Kim Jong-un
North Korea Threatens South Korea… By Fax
Warns of strike ‘without notice’