Narineh Abrahamian: Obama can play an important role in pressing Turkey to deal honestly with its dark past by speaking truthfully about this crime.

Russia’s recently adopted fiscal rules link the country’s spending plans to long-term average oil prices, rather than projected oil prices.

President Mursi's opponents have been demanding the formation of a new govt. to oversee parliamentary elections expected to begin this year.

US media reports said one of the suspects had been in Russia in 2012 and had visited both Dagestan and neighboring Chechnya.

Gen. Fang Fenghui said Beijing firmly opposes the North's nuclear weapons program and wants to work with others on negotiations to end it.

Mussallam al-Barrak had warned the Emir in a speech that he would not be allowed to "take Kuwait into the abyss of autocracy".

Opinion polls have suggested that around 55-60% of French people support gay marriage but only about 50% approve of gay adoption.

The attack comes some six months after a Moscow lawyer shot dead six people in the Russian capital.