US charges 3 Malaysian telecom officials for multimillion-dollar fraud

Supreme Court spares intellectually disabled Alabama death row inmate, rejecting state appeal over IQ testing.

The Supreme Court spared the life of an intellectually disabled death row inmate on Thursday, rejecting Alabama's appeal that IQ tests prove his competence for execution.

Five Crimean Tatars sentenced to up to 20 years in Russia over alleged Hizb ut-Tahrir cell in Crimea's Dzhankoysky district. Court hands longest term of 20 years to Remzi Kurtnezir.

Five Crimean Tatars have been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison in a case concerning a Hizb ut-Tahrir cell in the Dzhankoysky district, the press service of the Southern Military District Court reported.

Russian fraud suspect Alexei Kikhaev, wheelchair-bound, may have caused 1B rubles in social benefit damages.

Fraud involving social benefits, allegedly involving a wheelchair-bound man named Alexei Kikhaev who fled to Thailand, may have caused damages up to 1 billion rubles.

Feds charge 15 in Minnesota with defrauding social service programs

Federal authorities have charged 15 individuals in Minnesota with defrauding government social service programs.