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British police say at least 21 people, including officers, have been treated after exposure to the nerve agent used to attack former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter near a U.K. shopping center.
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before U.S. President Donald Trump took office was an effort by his campaign to establish a back channel with the Kremlin, The Washington Post has reported.
Pakistan, Iran, and nations in the Middle East are among the countries that are least likely to have job opportunities for women, resulting in high rates of female unemployment there, the United Nations has found.
European power operators say a dispute between Serbia and Kosovo is sapping a small amount of energy from the continent's electricity grid and causing electronic clocks to run several minutes late across Europe.
An Iranian woman who removed her Islamic head scarf on a Tehran street has been sentenced to two years in prison, local media report.
An Uzbek court agreed to look into allegations of torture by journalist Bobomurod Abdullaev, as his trial got under way in Tashkent on March 7.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin praised U.S. President Donald Trump as a “balanced” man he can negotiate with, but he also assailed the West for “illegitimate and unfair” Ukraine-related sanctions imposed on Moscow.
Human Rights Watch and the Lahore-based Justice Project Pakistan say the criminal justice system of Saudi Arabia is violating the right to due process and fair trials for Pakistani defendants.
A Minsk-based human rights group says Belarusian authorities more than four months ago executed a man who had been convicted of killing his own children.
A BBC journalist says she was sexually harassed by senior Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky.
British police say a nerve agent was used to try to kill former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the southwestern city of Salisbury.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has discussed ways to counter the Russian “threat” with his counterparts from the Baltic states, the State Department says.
A court in Chechnya has prolonged pretrial detention for Oyub Titiyev, the jailed director of the prominent Russian human rights group Memorial's office in Russia's North Caucasus region.
The cockpit voice recorder from a Russian airliner that crashed outside Moscow in February captured the desperate last words of the pilots as they tried to reverse the aircraft's downward course shortly after takeoff, a news report says.
A Russian transport plane has crashed near the Hmeimim air base in Syria, killing all 32 people aboard, the Defense Ministry says.
Azerbaijani authorities say the fire at a drug rehabilitation center in Baku that killed 25 people on March 2 was caused by a suicide attempt and that a suspect was detained.
The younger daughter of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov says she is leaving her post as president of Uzbekistan’s Gymnastics Federation, weeks after she resigned from the post of ambassador to UNESCO.
More than 50 artworks from the Louvre museum in Paris arrived at the National Museum of Iran on March 5 in the first major show by a Western museum in Iran's history.
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