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MOSCOW – Russian investigators say they are considering whether to charge former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky with ordering the 1998 killing of a Siberian mayor. At the time when Nefteyugansk Mayor Vladimir Petukhov was shot dead, he was in conflict with Khodorkovsky’s oil company, Yukos, over alleged tax arrears. Khodorkovsky …

DES MOINES, Iowa – A man who created a nonprofit organization credited with helping more than 150 million people out of poverty is this year’s recipient of the World Food Prize. Fazle Hasan Abed (FAHZ’-lee hah-SAHN’ AH’-bed) is the founder of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, now known as BRAC. …

LONDON – A bizarre plan to relocate the entire population of Hong Kong to Northern Ireland was considered an option in the uncertain years before Britain handed back the former British colony to Chinese rule, formerly classified government files showed. Britain’s National Archives on Friday released a 1983 government file …