The cleric of a Shi'ite mosque in the mostly Sunni flashpoint Iranian city of Zahedan has been shot dead, the state news agency IRNA reported on November 3.
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 214 captured soldiers in the latest prisoner swap, the two sides said.
The UN nuclear watchdog says it has found no sign of undeclared nuclear activity at three sites in Ukraine that it inspected at Kyiv's request in response to Russian allegations it was working on a "dirty bomb."
Hungary's parliament will decide on when to schedule a debate on the ratification of Finland and Sweden's applications to join NATO, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a press conference on November 3.
The United States will try to remove Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) over the government's denial of women's rights and its brutal crackdown on protests, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on November 2.
The Swiss-based operator of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline says it found craters on the seabed more than 200 meters apart in its initial data gathering at the location of damage to the Baltic Sea pipeline.
RFE/RL asked people in Moscow how they thought the war in Ukraine -- which Russian President Vladimir Putin maintains is a "special military operation" -- is going.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has announced plans to speak soon with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell about stalled efforts to revive a 2015 nuclear deal.
The U.S. Treasury Department last month repelled cyberattacks by a pro-Russian hacker group, preventing a disruption, a U.S. Treasury official said on November 1.
Three ships left Ukrainian ports by midday on November 1 under the Black Sea grain export deal, the United Nations-led coordination center said, the second day of sailings after Russia suspended participation in the initiative.
Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin on November 1 urged Hungary and Turkey to swiftly approve the Swedish and Finnish applications for membership in the NATO defense alliance.
Olha Shevchenko was seven months pregnant when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24. After her home in the village of Prudyanka was shelled that same morning, she fled to nearby Kharkiv and took refuge in a shelter beneath the factory where her husband works.
At least 13 people were killed and more than 80 injured, including children, as a result of missile strikes in Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzya on October 9.
An early morning blast and ensuing fire hit a section of the dual road-and-rail Crimea Bridge over the Kerch Strait and a span of the road bridge collapsed into the sea on October 8.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed what the Kremlin calls "accession treaties" with four Moscow-imposed heads of four Ukrainian regions to make them part of the Russian Federation. The move was globally condemned as illegal.
More than 1,300 people have been detained in Russia after rare anti-war protests were held around the country in the wake of President Vladimir Putin's announcement of a partial military mobilization.
In his first address to the nation about Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, President Vladimir Putin announced on September 21 that he had signed a decree ordering a partial mobilization.
Ukrainian security services say "people were tortured" by Russian troops at a local police station in the recently liberated city of Kupyansk.
Hotel-occupancy rates in in Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, have plummeted this year according to statistics provided by Russian tour operators. Some Russian tourists do continue to travel there but many have been deterred amid explosions and other attacks on the peninsula.
Ukrainian emergency services held a nuclear disaster drill in the country's Zaporizhzhya region on August 17 after repeated shelling at the site of Europe's largest nuclear power plant. Russian forces captured the Zaporizhzhya site in early March.
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