Chechnya
KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai said that U.S.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Insurgents killed eight Afghan police in an attack in the country's increasingly volatile north Thursday, while it emerged that a police driver who shot dead two Spanish police trainers and a translator reportedly had family links to the Taliban.
VIENNA - An Austrian investigation into the street slaying of a former bodyguard for the Chechen president has revealed a connection between a man detained in the slaying and a close adviser to the Chechen leader, an official said Monday.
MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday ordered officials in the North Caucasus to ensure what he called the "normal work" of human rights groups operating in the volatile region.
ST.PETERSBURG, Russia - Russia's Constitutional Court effectively outlawed the death penalty Thursday, saying a moratorium on capital punishment should remain in force until the nation fully bans executions.
