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Police in Tehran have reportedly prevented a planned gathering in front of Afghanistan's embassy in memory of a young Afghan girl who was raped and murdered earlier this month in Varamin, near the capital.
The Russian Justice Ministry has suspended the Crimean Tatars' highest ruling body due to what it called "extremist activities," a fresh escalation in Moscow's crackdown against a group that has broadly opposed Russia's forcible annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
A Ukrainian court has sentenced two Russian citizens to 14 years in prison each on charges of fighting alongside Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, opening the door for a potential prisoner exchange with Moscow.
he price of oil tumbled on April 18 after a meeting of oil producers failed to agree a cap on output to shore up prices.
The United Nations has reported 600 civilian deaths in Afghanistan's war in the first quarter of this year -- down 13 percent from the first three months of 2015.
The U.S. military says there has been another close encounter between a Russian warplane and a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane over international waters of the Baltic Sea – the second such incident within a week.
High-stakes talks between oil-producing countries in Qatar aimed at trying to boost global oil prices by capping production have ended without agreement.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has asked Russia’s foreign minister for help in getting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop violating the cease-fire there.
Rescue efforts were under way in southwestern Japan on April 16 after two powerful earthquakes hit the area, killing at least 39 people.
Thousands protested peacefully in the Macedonian capital for a fourth night as parliament called for snap parliamentary elections in a bid to end a deepening political crisis linked to a wiretapping scandal.
A Russian judge who agreed to accept a lawsuit filed against Russian President Vladimir Putin has abruptly resigned.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has sought to deflect implicit criticism from Russia's president after Vladimir Putin suggested some regional leaders in Russia were "hunt[ing] for enemies of the nation among opposition figures."
Russia has denounced the U.S. State Department's latest human rights report, which harshly criticizes the Kremlin's expansionism in Ukraine and record on civil liberties.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says he will visit an American aircraft carrier in the disputed South China Sea on April 15, a move almost certain to further anger China, which denounced U.S.-Philippine military cooperation in the region.
The United States and South Korea say North Korea appears to have failed in an attempt to launch a missile on April 15, likely to mark the birthday of its founding president.
Japanese officials say least nine people were killed after a powerful earthquake struck the south of the country on April 14, sparking fires and injuring hundreds of others as rescue workers searched through the night for people possibly trapped in rubble.
Antigovernment protests continued for the third consecutive night in Macedonia's capital on April 14 following President Gjorge Ivanov's decision this week to halt prosecutions of officials linked to a wiretapping scandal.
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