The Pakistani Army chief offered Islamabad's support for the Afghan peace process in a meeting with President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul on May 10 amid growing violence as the United States withdraws its troops.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has attended the main Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red Square. Russia showed off its military might in the annual event on May 9. In an address, Putin hailed the Red Army's defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 but did not mention any role of the Western Allies.
Kateryna Monzul is the first woman in Ukraine to officiate a soccer match in the top men's league. Monzul says her career path has been tough, but her skills have outweighed considerations of gender in the role.
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.
Travelers in Russia can book a trip on a route through the Urals traveled by some members of the last royal family before their execution in 1918. The tour is scenic and educational, but offers a window onto a dark chapter of Russia's past.
The ruling party of Prime Minister Imran Khan and his political allies will seek to wrest control of Pakistan's Senate from opposition parties on March 3 in indirect elections for 37 seats in the 104-member upper house of the country's parliament.
China has pledged to deliver 400,000 doses of Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine to Afghanistan, Afghan officials said on March 1, in a boost for an immunization campaign begun last week.
Thousands of people laid flowers on February 27 at the site where Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin six years ago. (Reuters)
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)
Following recent mass rallies that saw thousands of detentions, supporters of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny used light from cell phones, flashlights, and candles as a new form of protest.
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.
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.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny made a statement via video link during a Moscow region court hearing on January 28, but his appeal of his 30-day detention was rejected.
Russian police detained Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of jailed Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny, during a protest in Moscow on January 23 where -- as in dozens of other cities -- people demonstrated calling for his release from prison. (Reuters)
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on January 21 that China has agreed to provide half a million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine free of cost to Pakistan by January 31.
Iranian nurse Somayeh Hosseinzadeh had to work back-to-back shifts away from her family for the first few weeks of the coronavirus pandemic and says her department at Tehran's Shariati Hospital was like a "war scene," with elderly people and pregnant women dying around her.
Pakistan's military located the body of American mountaineer Alex Goldfarb on January 18 in the Karakoram Mountains in northern Pakistan, the second death of a foreign climber in the area in less than a week.
Afghan peace talks that resumed four days ago are effectively on hold, sources from both sides said on January 13, as negotiators wait for President-elect Joe Biden to signal whether he will stick to Donald Trump's aggressive schedule to pull out troops.
Negotiating teams representing the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents held a preparatory meeting on January 6 in the Qatari capital, Doha, with talks on a peacemaking agenda to begin on January 9, both sides said.
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