Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has arrived for an official visit to Iran. The EU member country's diplomacy chief was received by President Hassan Rohani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran on March 7.
A new play in Moscow is bringing stories of the Soviet gulag to audiences with the help of real objects discovered at prison camps. The creators say letters, inscriptions, and household items help present a picture of the time as well as the suffering of the prisoners.
Rival neighbors Pakistan and India have pledged to stop firing weapons across the border in disputed Kashmir, promising to adhere to a 2003 accord that has been largely ignored, officials from both sides said on February 25.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny was fined on charges of defamation on February 20 after an earlier sentence on embezzlement charges was upheld. He now faces more than 2 1/2 years in prison. Navalny was arrested in January after receiving treatment for a near-deadly poisoning.
A Moscow court has upheld opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's prison sentence relating to his embezzlement conviction he has called politically motivated, but reduced the sentence by about 50 days considering time served. (AP, Reuters)
Three mountaineers who went missing earlier this month while attempting to scale the world’s second-highest mountain, K2, should now be considered dead, Pakistani officials said on February 18.
Hungary's last remaining independent news radio station has been knocked off the air in Budapest. The country's media authorities refused to extend Klubradio's FM license, saying it "repeatedly infringed" on the compulsory registration law by twice submitting documents late.
Voters in Kosovo headed to the polls on February 14 to elect a new parliament. Among early voters in the capital, Pristina, were incumbent Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti and two of his predecessors, Ramush Haradinaj and Albin Kurti.
Jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny appeared in a Moscow court ahead of a February 2 hearing on whether to convert a years-old suspended sentence to real prison time in a case widely considered to be politically motivated.
Protesters rallied across Russia on January 31 in support of jailed opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny. As people marched through the streets chanting "Freedom for Navalny!" in Yekaterinburg, demonstrators were blocked and detained in Novosibirsk.
An angry mob ransacked a local radio station in northern Afghanistan last week after a mosque imam incited the attackers, claiming loud music played by the station had interfered with his prayer service, an international journalists group said on January 19.
An influential Afghan Shi'ite leader is visiting Pakistan, where members of the minority sect are still reeling from the brutal killing of 11 Shi'ite coal miners, nine of whom were Afghan immigrants, earlier this month.
Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Pakistan on January 11 launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio amid tight security, hoping to eradicate the crippling children’s disease this year.
A roadside bomb tore through a vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul on December 22, killing at least five people, three of them doctors, police said.
A deadly car bomb hit the Afghan capital, Kabul, on December 20. The blast went off as lawmaker Khan Mohammad Wardak's convoy was passing by. The parliament deputy is wounded but in good condition, according to Interior Minister Masud Andarabi.
Optimism among Afghans regarding the country's peace process has decreased significantly in the past few months amid a spike in violence, according to a survey released on December 11.
The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution over Russian objections on December 10 commending progress in peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban while urging stepped-up efforts to tackle terrorist attacks in the country.
An Kosovar Albanian shopkeeper has come to the rescue of a 92-year-old ethnic Serb woman who lives alone in an abandoned village in Kosovo. Fadil Rama brings food and prepares meals for Blagica Dicic, whom he has known since childhood.
The Pakistan cricket team has been denied the right to train while in managed isolation in New Zealand after eight members of the touring squad tested positive for COVID-19.
China’s senior diplomat in Australia said Prime Minister Scott Morrison overreacted to a social media post about alleged war crimes by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, adding that his actions drew more attention to the report.
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