A suicide car bomber targeted a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on May 24, killing two soldiers, a policeman, and a civilian, the military said. It was the second militant attack to hit Pakistan in as many days.
Pressure from the West is strengthening Russia's ties with China, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on May 24.
Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel won the International Booker Prize on May 23 for Time Shelter, a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia.
Two U.S. senators on May 23 said they hope that European Union-backed negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia can achieve results this year in resolving the dispute between the two countries and normalizing their relations.
Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said on May 23 that key Taliban officials told him in meetings that they are close to finalizing guidelines that will allow Afghan women to resume working for nongovernmental organizations.
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan pressed his legal battle on May 23 before a court in the capital, Islamabad, which granted him protection from arrest until early next month in several cases where he faces terrorism charges for inciting violence.
A top Russian official who faces sanctions in the West over Moscow’s war on Ukraine visited Saudi Arabia on May 23 and held talks with his counterpart in the kingdom, state media reported.
Austria's government on May 22 asked Hungary for explanations as it stepped up security along the countries’ shared border following Budapest’s decision to grant early release to convicted people smugglers.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola addressed a mass rally organized by Moldova's government in the capital, Chisinau, on May 21 to show support for the post-Soviet country's EU integration.
Thousands of students, teachers, and supporters demonstrated in Hungary’s capital on May 19 for improved pay and working conditions for educators, the latest expression of frustration with the right-wing government’s education policy by a growing student movement.
The Mideast-based commanders of the U.S., British, and French navies transited the Strait of Hormuz on May 19 aboard an American warship, a sign of their unified approach to keep the crucial waterway open after Iran seized two oil tankers.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will visit Beijing next week for talks, China's Foreign Ministry said on May 19, marking the latest exchange in a relationship in which Russia is becoming increasingly reliant on China for economic and diplomatic support.
Pakistani police continued their siege around the home of Imran Khan in Lahore as a 24-hour deadline given to the former ex-premier to hand over suspects allegedly sheltered inside was about to expire on May 18.
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi expressed concern on May 13 about Russian and Chinese military cooperation in Asia and said the security situation in Europe could not be separated from that in the Indo-Pacific region since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
UEFA has ordered Serbia to host a 2024 European Championship qualifier in an empty stadium because of discriminatory chants by fans at a game against neighboring Montenegro.
Some Afghan women employed by the United Nations have been detained, harassed, and had restrictions placed on their movements since being banned by the Taliban from working for the world body, the UN said on May 9.
Russians returned to international judo competition on May 7 for the first time in nearly a year at the world championships as Ukraine boycotted the key Olympic qualifier.
Satellite images analyzed on May 7 by the Associated Press show two oil tankers recently seized by Iran off the coast of one of its key port cities on the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
The Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in protest on May 5 after a former Russian official suggested it would be acceptable to assassinate Poland's ambassador to Russia.
Iran on May 3 seized a second oil tanker in a week in Gulf waters, and the U.S. State Department called for its release, in the latest escalation in a series of seizures or attacks on commercial vessels in Gulf waters.
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