Estera Bajer was smuggled out of a Nazi concentration camp in Belgrade in a bag, moments after her birth. She wants to see a proper memorial built at the site of the Sajmiste camp in the Serbian capital where her mother and an estimated 7,000 other Jews were held before they died.
They don't speak Russian. Some of them can't really sing. But a group of men from a small town have won over Australian audiences with their spirited renditions of traditional Russian songs.
The trial of Armenia's former President Robert Kocharian resumed in Yerevan on September 12. He faces up to 15 years in prison for the deadly 2008 crackdown on demonstrators during his final days in office.
A Paris housing project named after the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, is to be demolished. Officially opened in 1963 in the presence of Gagarin himself, the "Cite Gagarine" was built by the local French communist government.
At this month's Basketball World Cup in China, 24-year-old Serbian standout Nikola Jokic is being billed as one of the stars of the tournament. He's already one of the highest-paid players in the United States as an NBA all-star. Back home in Serbia, the big man is an inspiration in his small town.
A Russian postwoman rides a "monster truck" through swamps and forests to deliver mail and goods to her isolated Siberian village.
Cricket, soccer, and mountain biking are all popular in Afghanistan, but another sport is getting a grip on local athletes. In Kabul, a growing number of men, and a few women, are playing a new European import: rugby.
White-clad followers of a Bulgarian theologian welcomed their "spiritual new year" with an annual dance performed in concentric circles high in the mountains. Believers say the ritual helps them connect to nature and one another.
Yakutia in northeastern Siberia is home to huge diamond deposits where the precious stones are mined in massive pits which have been dug deep into the permafrost. The Mir mine in Mirny is 525 meters deep and one of the biggest man-made holes in the world.
Iran is set to allow women to attend men's soccer matches, lifting a decades-long ban following pressure from FIFA. But women will still not be given completely free access to stadiums, with Iranian officials saying there would be separate entrances and seating areas.
At a farm near St. Petersburg, 18 residents with intellectual disabilities share their daily work, meals, and leisure time. It's part of a program that provides educational and employment support to people with special needs, and it offers a different model of care from Russian institutions.
At a festival in rural Serbia, retired construction worker Zoran Lazarevic has been crowned the mustache king with white whiskers measuring 140 centimeters.
Pakistan is fighting a rising tide of plastic waste, including an estimated 55 billion plastic bags each year. The capital, Islamabad, is implementing a ban on single-use bags. But other Pakistani districts have had little success in enforcing similar measures.
Beekeepers in Russia's central Tula region are reporting mass deaths in their bee colonies. They're blaming the overuse of an insecticide no longer used within the European Union. Tula is just one of 30 Russian regions that have seen mass bee deaths this summer.
Explosions at an arms depot sent balls of fire into the sky near the Siberian city of Achinsk on August 5, forcing thousands to evacuate. One person was reported missing and at least six wounded. The blasts had died down by the following day, but officials warned that it was not safe to return.
Moscow's Romen Theater opened in 1931 as a showcase for Romany performers and a symbol of the Soviet Union's "friendship of the peoples." While Russia's 200,000 Roma continue to face poverty and isolation, the emphasis here remains on song and dance.
A roadside bomb explosion hit a bus in the western Afghan province of Farah on July 31, killing at least 35 civilians and wounding dozens of others, officials say.
Ukrainian authorities have seized a Russian tanker that Moscow allegedly used to block Ukrainian vessels in the Kerch Strait last November. Russia has been holding 24 Ukrainian sailors since the November 25, 2018, incident.
As Iran's economy continues to suffer the impact of U.S. sanctions, many ordinary workers are struggling to get by. A growing number of Iranians have gone abroad in search of work, heading to neighboring Iraq's Kurdish region for temporary jobs that provide some relief from poverty.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, joined other voters in Kyiv to cast ballots in Ukraine's snap parliamentary election. The July 21 vote came after Zelenskiy dissolved parliament early in a bid to get legislative mandate in order to push through reforms.
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