Divers searching for nine Azerbaijani oil workers missing after the partial collapse of a Caspian Sea oil platform have found a cabin used by workers during resting shifts. …
continue readingRussian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has followed his declaration of intent to run in Russia’s next presidential election by saying one of his top priorities if elected would be to…
continue readingProminent Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny says he will finance his bid for the Russian presidency by collecting small donations from ordinary voters, in an interview with Timur Olyevsky of…
continue readingWhen I look at photos of Aleppo now, I am carried back to that time — one when there were no safe places and it was hard not to feel…
continue readingDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he is confident parliament will approve a compromise he secured from other European Union leaders on an EU-Ukraine pact. …
continue readingMembers of Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly held a memorial on the second anniversary of a deadly militant attack on a school in Peshawar. They lit candles and said prayers on December…
continue readingCan the populist antiestablishment tsunami that has engulfed the West also strike Russia? Listen to this week’s Power Vertical Podcast. …
continue readingThe groups aligned in the Bloc of Opposition Forces in Georgia’s breakaway Republic of Abkhazia failed yet again on December 15 in their latest bid to force de facto President…
continue readingThe leader of a shadowy Russian private mercenary corps has been spotted at a lavish Kremlin reception for holders of military honors, in the strongest indication yet of the key…
continue readingThe European Union (EU) condemned Russia’s controversial “foreign agent” law after a Moscow court upheld the Justice Ministry’s decision to designate a prominent human rights organization as a foreign agent.…
continue readingChina has expressed “serious concerns” about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to call into question the United States’ continued adherence to the “one China” policy. Since 1979, no United States president…
continue readingAn influential official who had been seen as the late President Islam Karimov’s possible successor has lost his job as finance minister as the Central Asian country’s new government takes…
continue readingSupporters of Macedonia’s ruling party held a rally at the state electoral commission, claiming the opposition was trying to steal their victory in this week’s election. They chanted patriotic slogans…
continue readingKyrgyzstan is preparing to issue updated bank notes, and one of the bills has some citizens seeing red. They think there’s something very odd about the portrait of a renowned…
continue readingAzerbaijani authorities say a Russian blogger who is wanted in Baku on separatism charges has been detained in Belarus. …
continue readingPhilippine environment officials have canceled a compliance certificate for a housing project by President-elect Donald Trump’s business associate, saying it would endanger a watershed that supplies drinking water to 12…
continue readingAs Kazakhstan celebrates the 25th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union, some citizens are marking different anniversaries that are getting no attention from the government. …
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continue readingPakistan says “it would be willing” to discuss with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration freedom for a jailed Pakistani doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden.…
continue readingJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended two days of talks without any significant breakthrough on the major issue that divides them, a territorial dispute that…
continue readingThe Philippines would not protest China’s moves to militarize its man-made islands in the South China Sea, Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said Friday, amid Manila’s efforts to improve ties with…
continue readingLast month, the leader of a hard-line Muslim group, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), was hospitalized after being beaten up by the Indonesian military at his own headquarters. Actually, nothing…
continue readingThe stormy resignation of the Philippine vice president from her country’s Cabinet will allow her to mount more opposition to the deadly, internationally controversial anti-drug campaign of President Rodrigo Duterte,…
continue readingU.S. President-elect Donald Trump delivered another installment in his “thank you” tour Thursday to states that helped him cinch the presidential election, and used the occasion to slam Barack Obama’s…
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