Gunfire and the sounds of explosions were heard in the northern Ukrainian city of Slavutych after residents protested against Russian occupation. The city's mayor, Yuriy Fomychev, was filmed addressing crowds saying the Russians had agreed to vacate the city center.
A 27-year-old Ukrainian mother was wounded while protecting her baby during a Russian missile attack. The woman -- named Olha -- was injured as she was breastfeeding her child in Kyiv's Podil district on March 18.
As Russian forces continue to pound the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, an estimated 300,000 trapped residents are struggling to survive.
China and Pakistan share concern about "spillover effects of unilateral sanctions" on Russia over its war against Ukraine and called for a cease-fire and diplomatic resolution of the crisis, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on March 22.
India says it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan and has ordered a high-level probe to investigate the matter.
Two Afghan brothers suspected of killing their sister for adopting a Western lifestyle went on trial in Berlin on March 2 in a case that highlights violence against women and cultural tensions among some recent migrants to Germany.
The executive board of the World Bank on March 1 approved a plan to use more than $1 billion from a frozen Afghanistan trust fund to finance urgently needed education, agriculture, health, and family programs, the bank announced.
The Taliban's announcement that it would restrict Afghans from leaving the country under certain circumstances has drawn concern from the United States and the United Kingdom this week amid fears it could hamper ongoing evacuation efforts.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on February 28 a cut in petrol and electricity prices despite a steep rise in the global oil market, pledging to freeze the new rates until the next budget in June.
Protesting fishermen blockaded the port in Karachi, assembling their trawlers across the main channel to halt all traffic in and out of Pakistan's busiest port, officials said on February 23.
Residents of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, spoke out against Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to recognize areas controlled by separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk as independent.
The United Nations children's agency will pay Afghan teachers a monthly stipend for at least two months, the organization said, as salaries remain unpaid for months amid an economic crisis in Afghanistan.
In televised remarks from the White House in Washington on February 15 U.S. President Joe Biden said Russian Defense Ministry’s statements that some military units are leaving their positions near the border with Ukraine have still not been verified on the ground.
The march on February 12 came amid increasing warnings by the West that a Russian invasion could be imminent.
Concern is rising among many Hungarians living near the Ukrainian border as fears over a Russian attack on Ukraine have grown. RFE/RL spoke to people in the Hungarian villages of Zahony and Gemzse and asked them how hostilities might affect the border region.
The U.S. troops reinforcing NATO allies in Eastern Europe amid a Russian military buildup on Ukraine's border arrived on February 10 at a military base in Romania.
Ahead of parliamentary elections in Hungary, a group of volunteers are printing and distributing their own newsletter aimed at countering what they say is a government stranglehold on media in rural areas.
Thousands of residents of Ukraine's second-biggest city marched through the city center on February 5 carrying national flags to demonstrate patriotic spirit amid tensions with Russia.
The first Ukrainian troops have been given training with NLAW (new-generation light anti-tank weapons) delivered by Britain to boost Kyiv's defenses as Russia continues to mass forces on the border.
Several thousand protesters against a proposed rise in energy prices scuffled with police blocking the entrance to Kosovo's government building on January 29.
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