MOSCOW (BNO NEWS) — A former police officer was charged on Thursday with organizing the murder of Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.

Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, who faces life in prison if…

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — Ruth Madoff, the wife of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, has revealed in an interview to be aired this week that she and her husband attempted to commit suicide in December 2008.

Ruth told CBS News in her first interview tha…

CAIRO (BNO NEWS) — Five Egyptian police officers were referred to the criminal court on Wednesday for their alleged part in the torturing and killing of a young Salafist who was arrested for his alleged involvement in a bomb attack, the Al-Ahram state…

BELGRADE, SERBIA (BNO NEWS) — Two stolen Pablo Picasso paintings worth millions of dollars were recovered in Serbia on Wednesday, officials said. Meanwhile, another Picasso painting was stolen in Colombia.

The stolen paintings, ‘Head of horse’ and ‘G…

ZVISHAVANE, ZIMBABWE (BNO NEWS) — A Zimbabwean court heard a bizarre excuse on Monday when a man accused of bestiality claimed he had hired a prostitute who transformed into a donkey overnight, local media reported on Wednesday.

Sunday Moyo, 28, was …

GALKAYO, SOMALIA (BNO NEWS) — Three aid workers working with a Danish humanitarian organization were kidnapped in northern Somalia on Tuesday afternoon, the group said. Two of them were foreigners.

The incident happened at around 3 p.m. local time in…

JERUSALEM (BNO NEWS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet on Tuesday unanimously approved a prisoner exchange deal with Egypt to release a suspected Israeli spy in exchange for 25 Egyptian prisoners, the government said.

Und…

JAYAPURA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — The government of Indonesia on Tuesday deployed hundreds of troops to Papua where tensions remain high amid protesting Freeport workers and renewed manifestations by separatist groups.

Indonesian Criminal Investigatio…

BALI, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — A 14-year-old Australian boy who was previously arrested for drug possession on the Indonesian island of Bali has been moved from a police detention cell to an immigration detention center, the Antara news agency reported …

ALGIERS (BNO NEWS) — Three international aid workers, two from Spain and one from Italy, were kidnapped by gunmen overnight from a refugee camp in Algeria, government officials confirmed on Sunday.

The kidnappings took place in Rabouni, which serves …