Uruguay were comfortable 3-0 winners over 10-man Russia in Samara on Monday to finish top of Group A at the World Cup.
Scores from Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani sandwiched Denis Cheryshev's own goal in a match of previously unbeaten sides already (...)
Thirteen inmates were hurt in mass disturbances at a penitentiary in Russia's Samara region, spokesman for the regional Penitentiary Service department Artur Malivanchuk told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
At 19:30, on Tuesday, a number of inmates at (...)
Police raiding a suspected Al-Qaeda hide-out found a secret prison and the bodies of seven Iraqis bearing gunshot wounds and torture marks, Iraqi police said on Saturday.
Police said they believed the six men and one woman, only two of whom have so (...)
Gunmen shot dead nine
members of an Iraqi family after storming their house in the
village of Awja, north of Baghdad, on Thursday, police said, according to Reuters
"They attacked the house at 4 a.m. and opened fire," said a
policeman who was (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on
Thursday greeted German Chancellor and European Union President
Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso
as they arrived for informal talks ahead of the EU-Russia summit in
Samara, (...)
Three suicide bombers tried to attack
an American military base in this city on Monday, killing
two Iraqis and injuring 23 people, including three U.S.
soldiers, police and military officials said.
Two suicide bombers detonated their car bombs (...)
U.S. troops fired on a car that sped
toward them in central Iraq on Sunday morning, wounding two
people, the military said.
Iraqi Police and several witnesses, however, reported that
four people were killed and that the vehicle was hit by
tank (...)
Insurgents set off at least two car
bombs and attacked a police station Saturday in the central
Iraqi town of Samarra, killing at least 19 people and
injuring 23 people, according to police and health
officials.
Police officer Qahtan Mohammed (...)
Insurgents detonated four car bombs and attacked police stations in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday, killing at least 37 people and wounding 62, police and health officials said.
The fourth blast occurred at 12:30 (0930 GMT) when a suicide (...)
U.S. planes bombed targets just north of Iraq's restive city of Samarra on Monday, killing one person and wounding four, police and hospital officials said.
The air strike came after insurgents mounted a string of suicide bombings and attacks on (...)
Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked Samarra on Friday after U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a
major assault to retake control of the insurgent stronghold
north of the capital. Hospital officials said more than 80
people were killed and 100 (...)
