Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting of the Russian State Council at the Grand Kremlin Palace. Alexander ...

A federal jury has convicted four members of the notoriously violent MS-13 gang — including two national leaders — for a series of gruesome murders and racketeering crimes that terrorized communities ...

The whereabouts of former RFE/RL journalist Nika Novak appear to have been re-established after her lawyer warned last week that she disappeared from a Siberian correctional colony where she was held.

For centuries, the world’s harshest governments didn’t send people to prisons — they sent them to penal colonies designed to break the body and erase the soul. From Devil’s Island’s disease-ridden ...

Dreyfus—the central figure in an anti-Semitic scandal that sharply divided France in the 1890s—received a promotion to the rank he would have held if not for his imprisonment. Last week, the ...

It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of the Dreyfus Affair, which remains one of the most flagrant and consequential antisemitic incidents of the modern era. The disgraceful event has been ...

France Tuesday promoted Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, to the rank of brigadier general as an act of reparation in a notorious case of antisemitism that ...

SAN ANTONIO - Authorities around Texas are inspecting livestock for the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite that has the potential to devastate the cattle industry. Inspectors with the Texas ...

Looming ominously off the coast of French Guiana in South America, a mere 8.5 miles or 13.76 kilometers away, stands Devil’s Island, or Île Du Diable, as it's known in French. The island's memorable ...