Kazakhstan on April 11 said it had begun international arbitration court proceedings against energy majors including ExxonMobil and Shell over $16.5 billion in costs deducted from the revenues from two oil fields.
South Korea on April 11 said a "significant portion" of leaked U.S. intelligence documents indicating concerns in Seoul about arms supplies to Ukraine are fake.
Iran's parliament has adopted proposals to toughen penalties for perpetrators of violence against women, and the changes could be voted into law within months, state media reported on April 10.
Rescuers pulled a 46-year-old woman from the rubble early on April 9 after Russian missiles struck the city of Zaporizhzhya. The woman's 11-year-old daughter and 50-year-old husband were killed in the attack.
A Ukrainian minister will visit India from April 9 in the first face-to-face talks between the two countries since Russia's invasion of its European neighbor last year.
Top diplomats from Middle East rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia met in Beijing on April 6, pledging to work together to bring "security and stability" to their turbulent region following a surprise China-brokered deal.
Russian border patrol officers detained the pilot of a Ukrainian light aircraft that crashed in the southern Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, Russian state media said on April 5.
Russia's second-largest bank VTB, one of the first banks to be excluded from the SWIFT global payments system over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, reported a loss of 612.6 billion rubles ($7.7 billion) for 2022 on April 5.
A fire ripped through the camp of a Chinese company managing the construction of a remote hydropower dam in northwestern Pakistan on April 4, officials said.
The Czech and Slovak prime ministers on April 3 urged the European Union to exert "targeted pressure" on the Kremlin by sticking to sanctions imposed after Russia had invaded Ukraine last year.
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will travel to Russia's Kaliningrad region on April 5 for talks on the Moscow-held Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant plant in southern Ukraine.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused some $2.6 billion worth of damage to the country's heritage and cultural sites, the UN said on April 3.
Poland says it has already transferred some of its promised MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, after fellow NATO member Slovakia announced it had shipped an initial batch of its own. "
Bulgaria holds the fifth parliamentary elections in two years on April 2. News agencies filmed early voters in the capital, Sofia. The political camps are deeply divided over topics such as arms supplies to Ukraine and euro adoption.
Russia will not send fencers to an Olympic qualifier event in Poland this month because of "unacceptable" conditions, the head of Russia's Fencing federation was quoted by Russian media as saying on April 2.
Three British men have been detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan, U.K. nonprofit group the Presidium Network said on April 1.
Europe's security has come under threat amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Britain's King Charles told German MPs on March 30, adding however that "we can draw courage from our unity."
Tehran has condemned U.S. air strikes on Iran-linked forces in Syria that reportedly killed 19 people, which Washington said it carried out following a deadly drone attack on U.S. forces.
EU plans to seize Russian assets following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine are unprecedented and tricky, the chief of the EU task force said on March 24.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on March 23 that he would seek an explanation from Hungary as to why its parliament is delaying ratification of Sweden's NATO bid but not Finland's.
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