Russia's National Wealth Fund shrank to $148.4 billion as of January 1, down $38.1 billion in a month, as the government took out cash to plug its budget deficit, data showed on January 18.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has made a conditional offer to his Indian counterpart for talks on all outstanding issues, including disputed Kashmir.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on January 17 she backed listing Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization to respond to the "trampling" of "fundamental human rights" in the country.
Sweden and Finland must extradite up to 130 "terrorists" to Turkey before its parliament will approve their bids to join NATO, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on January 16.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on January 16 for the establishment of a special international tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Firefighters continued to clear the rubble and extricate survivors in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on January 15, a day after a Russian missile strike hit a nine-story apartment building. The death toll from the attack rose to at least 25 during the day, with dozens more wounded or missing.
In a new massive missile attack against Ukraine on January 14, Russia destroyed a nine-story apartment block in the central city of Dnipro, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens. Others were also trapped under the rubble.
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly says Iran must not follow through with its threat of executing British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari.
A gas pipeline connecting Lithuania and Latvia was hit by an explosion on January 13, but there was no immediate evidence of an attack, Lithuania's gas transmission operator Amber Grid said.
A dozen people were taken to the hospital and several homes were evacuated due to an ammonia leak in the Serbian industrial town of Pancevo, authorities said.
A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin on January 13 suggested confiscating the property and assets of Russians who discredit the country's armed forces and oppose the war in Ukraine.
Russia sees no dangers from Beijing's relaxation of measures to fight COVID-19 and will not impose extra restrictions on people arriving from China, TASS cited a senior official as saying on January 12.
Russia's Vagner Group said members of its forces found the body of one of two British volunteer aid workers who had been reported missing in eastern Ukraine.
Estonia has told Russia to reduce the number of diplomats at its embassy in Tallinn by February, the Baltic country's Foreign Ministry said on January 11.
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova and her Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Lubinets, met in the Turkish capital on January 11 for talks expected to focus on humanitarian assistance.
Russia's space agency said it would launch a Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft on February 20 to bring home two cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International Space Station after their original capsule sprang a coolant leak last month.
Canada will buy a U.S.-made National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) for Ukraine, a statement from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office said.
A U.S. federal appeals court appeared open to siding with convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his latest bid to reverse his death sentence.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on January 10 that a price cap on Russian oil imposed by Western countries appeared to be achieving its goals of keeping Russian oil on the market while limiting Russia's revenues.
The Russian Energy Ministry said on January 10 that it has been working on additional measures to limit discounts to international benchmarks on Russian oil prices, after the West imposed price caps.
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