Two experts are using laser technology to help restore the once-familiar echo of church bells across Siberia.
Thousands of Hungarians have taken to the streets for several nights in a row, accusing the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban of attacking the judiciary and passing what's being called a "slave law."
Salome Zurabishvili was sworn in as the president of Georgia on December 16 after she won a runoff last month. The French-born candidate supported by the ruling Georgian Dream party becomes the first woman to hold the office in the Caucasian country.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addressing several thousand people outside the ancient St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv announced on December 15 in Kyiv that a historic church council has agreed on the creation of an independent Orthodox church for Ukraine.
After two Russian warplanes landed in Venezuela, the United States accused the two countries of "squelching liberty." The Kremlin called the comments "completely inappropriate."
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow will follow suit if Washington pulls out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).
An investigation by Reuters has revealed a massive expansion of internment camps for hundreds of thousands of Muslims in China's Xinjiang province.
A Soyuz MS-11 rocket has successfully launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (NASA via Reuters)
Russia has deployed an additional S-400 surface-to-air missile unit to Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The extra unit, deployed on November 29, reinforces three units already based there.
Nearly 160,000 new cases of HIV were diagnosed in Europe last year -- and two-thirds of those cases were in Russia. Researchers say the stigma surrounding the disease makes it harder to share prevention and treatment information with the public.
Pakistani security forces raced to seal off the Chinese consulate in Karachi after a suicide attack on the building on November 23. The bombers failed to gain access to the building. Initial reports said three suicide bombers and at least two policemen were killed in a gunbattle.
A planned transgender-rights rally in Kyiv was disbanded after far-right counterdemonstrators assaulted several of the event's participants on November 18.
Some 200,000 people marched through the streets of Warsaw to mark 100 years since the restoration of Poland's independence on November 11.
French President Emmanuel Macron led tributes to the millions of soldiers who died during World War I, in a ceremony attended by dozens of world leaders.
A massive fire engulfed a supermarket of Russia's Lenta food retailer in central St. Petersburg on November 10. The roof collapsed, but there were no casualties, Russian news agencies reported.
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was sentenced to death for blasphemy, is free but under police protection after the Pakistani Supreme Court overturned her conviction. Hard-line Islamist groups continue to call for her execution.
Despite heavy rain, voters showed up in large numbers at a polling station in Arlington, Virginia on November 6.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, laid flowers at a monument commemorating Russia's National Unity Day on November 4.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signed an agreement on November 3 in Istanbul, outlining cooperation between Kyiv and the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that she will not seek reelection as head of her CDU party in December, and will not seek reelection as Chancellor in 2021.
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