A spinning dance troupe is breaking new ground in Afghanistan, as women and men perform a spiritual Sama together. The woman who founded the group says she will not be intimidated by the Taliban's strict interpretation of Islam.
A fire at a house for migrant workers in Siberia's Tomsk region has killed at least 11 people, most of them laborers from Uzbekistan. The blaze broke out in the early hours of January 21 at the one-story wooden structure. Local authorities said a criminal case has been opened. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
There are renewed hopes that diplomacy will replace threats of retaliation after days of tensions between Iran and the United States, but getting to a lasting agreement between the major powers and Iran looks like a tough task.
Iran launched a series of ballistic missiles at U.S. military bases in Iraq. U.S. President Donald Trump said the attacks caused little damage, while Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei boasted about them and said the United States needed to get out of the region.
A Ukrainian commercial airliner with 176 people on board crashed on January 8 soon after taking off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport. An Iranian official spokesman cited technical issues as the suspected cause of the crash in which all on board were killed. Rescuers have been sent to an area of farmland near the airport where the belonging to where the Ukraine International Airlines (UAI) Boeing 737-800 crashed.
The killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. drone strike has leaders, diplomats, and analysts around the world on edge, wondering where this might lead.
Russian airport terminals are buzzing this week with travelers trying to get home for the Orthodox Christmas holiday. One Moscow airport is providing a fuzzy, four-legged way to help cope with the stress.
Candidates cast their ballots in the January 5 presidential runoff in Croatia's capital, Zagreb. Incumbent President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic is facing former Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, who won in the first round.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have attended government-organized funeral rallies for Qasem Soleimani, who had led the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' influential Quds Force.
Thousands of people attended a funeral procession in Baghdad on January 4 for those killed one day earlier in a U.S. air strike, including top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi joined the procession, as did many Iraqis carrying the flags of Iranian-backed militias.
Pro-Iran paramilitary groups protesting against U.S. air strikes in Iraq pushed their supporters to withdraw from the perimeter of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Thousands of protesters surrounded the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on December 31 in a protest over recent U.S. air strikes that killed at least 25 members of an Iran-backed militant group, Kataib Hizbullah, in Iran and Syria. Embassy staff and the U.S. ambassador were evacuated as protesters broke down a door and burned American flags. Video shot elsewhere in Baghdad shows thousands of protesters marching to join the crowds at the embassy.
An animal cruelty ban which comes into effect in Russia in January 2020 prohibits petting zoos and animal cafes that exhibit exotic animals. Animal rights activists believe immediate change is unlikely.
Car enthusiast Aleksandr Trubnikov has been seen driving around Moscow in a Tesla Cybertruck, the electric vehicle unveiled to much fanfare in November. But fans of Trubnikov's YouTube channel know that the futuristic car body actually conceals the guts of a junked-out Russian Lada.
Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in a ceremony on December 23 officially opening railway travel on a new bridge between mainland Russia and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula.
A new 2.5-meter statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been unveiled in a ski resort 30 kilometers south of the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. The statue was commissioned by businessman Akbar Roziev after he secured a loan from a Russian development fund.
Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed the impeachment of Donald Trump and urged an extension of arms control measures during a wide-ranging annual news conference on December 19.
The lying-in-state ceremony and the funeral service for former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who led the Russian capital for almost two decades and oversaw its post-Soviet transformation, was held on December 12 in Moscow.
Thousands joined a December 8 rally in Kyiv to demand a tough stance on Russia ahead of peace talks in Paris that seek an end to the five-year war between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
A Ukrainian filmmaker has used nonrecyclable toothbrushes, plastic bags, and other trash to build the set for a new cartoon in which a plastic Barbie doll faces an apocalyptic future. Visitors can also explore a human-sized version of the set built with yet more trash.
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