Russian lawmakers on February 16 supported the country's withdrawal from 21 conventions of the Council of Europe, in accordance with Moscow's decision last March to leave the Strasbourg-based human rights watchdog.
Rescuers from Tajikistan have pulled a 3-year-old boy alive from under the rubble in the Turkish town of Kahramanmaras.
An explosion in a residential building in Russia's western Tula region has killed at least five people.
Ukrainian farmers wearing flak jackets have begun the 2022 harvest as parts of the world await grain from the “breadbasket” of Europe.
A Moscow trade show pitching glitzy funeral options takes on grim significance as hundreds of Russians die each day from COVID-19.
