NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is confident the alliance will find a solution soon on the delivery of battle tanks to Ukraine, he said after meeting Germany's defense minister on January 24.
The World Health Organization has called for "immediate and concerted action" to protect children from contaminated medicines after a spate of child deaths linked to cough syrups last year.
Finland's foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, says that a timeout of a few weeks is needed in the talks between Finland, Sweden, and Turkey regarding the two Nordic nations' plans to join the NATO military alliance.
Sweden should not expect Turkey's support for its NATO membership after a protest near the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm over the weekend including the burning of a copy of the Koran, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on January 23 and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said.
NATO and EU members Estonia and Latvia have told their Russian ambassadors to leave after Moscow said it was downgrading diplomatic relations with Estonia, accusing it of "total Russophobia."
A former top FBI official has been charged with violating U.S. sanctions on Russia by receiving concealed payments from oligarch Oleg Deripaska, prosecutors say.
A former commander of Russia's Wagner mercenary group who recently fled to Norway has been apprehended by police, an official said in Oslo on January 23.
EU ministers on January 23 agreed on a new package of sanctions against Iran, the Swedish EU presidency said.
The European Union cannot list Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity until an EU court has determined that it is one, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on January 23.
Ukraine held an emotional memorial ceremony in Kyiv on January 21 to honor the late Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskiy and the 13 other victims killed when a helicopter crashed into a kindergarten and the surrounding residential area of Brovary, close to the capital, on January 18.
Iran's currency fell to a record low against the U.S. dollar amid the country's increasing isolation and possible new European Union sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Senior U.S. officials are advising Ukraine to hold off on launching a major offensive against Russian forces until the latest supply of U.S. weaponry is in place and training has been provided.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeated his offer to mediate between Russia and Ukraine in a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on January 20.
Two businessmen were charged on January 20 in indictments unsealed in a U.S. court with allegedly facilitating a sanctions evasion and money-laundering scheme in relation to a $90 million yacht of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
Russia will start exporting crude oil to Pakistan after March, which Islamabad will pay for in currencies of "friendly countries," Russia's energy minister said on January 20, a move that could bring relief to the energy-starved South Asian country.
Kazakh lawmaker Azamat Abildaev has caused political controversy with pro-Kremlin comments in an interview with RFE/RL. Kazakhstan has repeatedly defended Ukraine's territorial integrity in the face of the Russian invasion.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says he worries that the world is becoming complacent about the considerable dangers posed by the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
Iran warned on January 19 that the European Union would "shoot itself in the foot" if it designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity, a day after the European Parliament called on the EU and its member states to do so.
Canada's foreign minister said on January 18 that Ottawa had summoned Russia's ambassador to Canada over Russian attacks against civilians in Ukraine, including an attack in Dnipro that killed at least 45 people.
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