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The United States has has imposed sanctions on a Russian bank over its dealings with Venezuela's state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), the U.S. Treasury Department said.
Azerbaijan has launched large-scale military maneuvers ahead of an expected first meeting between President Ilham Aliyev and new Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The Kremlin human rights council has urged Russia's upper house of parliament to reject bills that would outlaw online "fake news" and material deemed insulting to the Russian state or society.
Women attending daily workouts at a women-only park in the northern city of Maymana in Afghanistan's Faryab Province must wear burqas. But in this traditional community, they still face criticism from local men for exercising in public at all.
Grim videos posted online by the independent newspaper Novaya gazeta appear to provide fresh evidence of inmates being tortured and abused by guards at a prison in the city of Yaroslavl that has been at the center of concerns about violence against convicts in Russia.
The late Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar lived near a U.S. base in southern Afghanistan for years, a new book claims.
Amnesty International has reiterated its call on Russian authorities to release Chechen human rights activist Oyub Titiyev, calling his trial on “fabricated” drug-possession charges “an affront to justice.”
Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to seven years in prison, local media report.
The crash of an Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane that killed all 157 people on board has raised fresh questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8.
A fake-job scam in Tajikistan "guaranteed" Tajiks they would get automotive jobs and housing in the Czech Republic following an upfront "recruitment payment" of $1,320.
Kirill Serebrennikov’s version of Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco opera successfully premiered in the German city of Hamburg -- despite the fact the production's famed Russian director is under house arrest in Moscow.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has arrived in Baghdad for his first official visit to Iraq, state television reported, as Iraq is under pressure from the United States to limit ties with its neighbor.
The United States remained far and above the rest of the world as the globe’s leading arms exporter, with Russia a distant second, a leading research group says.
RFE/RL's Media-Relations Manager Muhammad Tahir moderated a discussion on Gadoev’s case -- and on previous situations where the accounts of the Tajik authorities are in question.
International mediators have urged the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to refrain from statements “suggesting significant changes to the situation on the ground” regarding the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has called for what he called "decisive" action by Pakistan in the wake of a deadly suicide attack in a border area.
Moldova’s Constitutional Court has confirmed the outcome of the country’s February 24 parliamentary election, rejecting an appeal by some opposition parties to invalidate the results in several constituencies.
Bosnia-Herzegovina says it will bring back two nationals who fought for the Islamic State (IS) militant group and who are being held in a Kurdish-run camp in Syria.
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