Two North Koreans who fled poor conditions at a Russian logging camp and later worked odd jobs sought asylum Tuesday at the South Korean consulate in an eastern Russian city, according to a human rights activist and news reports. The former lumberjacks climbed over the fence ...

London is turning into a top money-laundering centre as it becomes the favourite safe haven for fugitive Russian tycoons, a senior Russian prosecutor charged in an interview published Friday. "The greatest number of such fugitives are hiding out in Israel and Britain. It's no coincidence that the capital of the latter is often called Londongrad," Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander ...

A Canadian court was to hear a tape recording Tuesday of a former immigration judge who is alleged to have sought sex from a South Korean woman in exchange for granting her asylum, court officials said. Former Immigration and Refugee Board judge Steve Ellis, 50, has pleaded not guilty to charges of breach of trust and bribery in relation to ...