Russian media reported that Prosecutor’s Office of the Krasnoyarsk Province in Siberia has conducted an examination and did not discover any violations of the law of the Russian Federation in placing the verse from the Koran “There is no god but Allah” on the wall of the Krasnoyarsk mosque.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian prosecutors said on Monday they had charged a gang led by two teenagers of murdering 20 people in a series of racist killings over eight months.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Five Iraqi appeals court judges escaped assassination attempts on Monday when bombs exploded outside their homes in eastern Baghdad, an apparent attempt to intimidate the court, police and a judicial official said.