Moscow has filed a formal request with the Ukrainian authorities for the extradition of two suspects in the recent killing of 12 people in southern Russia. If the extradition request is granted all the alleged murderers will be face justice, an Investigative Committee representative said on Thursday.
Rescue workers have pulled out another victim of Sunday’s mudslide in northwestern Colombia, bringing the overall death toll to 27. Workers and neighbors are using earthmovers, picks and shovels to dig through the mud, after a sodden hillside collapsed on Sunday burying 50 homes in Bello town, near the Antioquia province’s capital Medellin.
19 countries have said they will not attend Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement that the envoys of Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Serbia, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Venezuela, the Philippines, Egypt, Sudan, Ukraine, Cuba and Morocco would miss the...