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In a move that extends Russia's crackdown on dissent, the Justice Ministry on November 8 added several high-profile ...

A Tajik opposition activist who was deported from Germany was arrested immediately upon his arrival in Dushanbe. Dilmurod ...

The U.S. Justice Department on November 8 unsealed criminal charges that detail a plot backed by Iran to kill President-elect ...

The prosecution has requested a six-year prison sentence for 68-year-old Russian pediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova on charges ...

Moscow summoned a Canadian diplomat on November 8 to rebut Western allegations that Russia's secret services had orchestrated ...

The last known time Oleh Tatarov flew to Moscow was on April 22, 2019, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ...

An Almaty regional court in Kazakhstan upheld the 7-year prison sentence handed to journalist Duman Mukhammedkarim for ...

Bulgaria’s interior minister has accused the theater director behind Hollywood A-lister John Malkovich’s production of a 19th ...

The Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported that the bodies of 563 servicemen have ...

Dozens more dead seals have been found on the Kazakh shores of the Caspian Sea, adding to the hundreds already discovered to ...

A university student in Tehran was detained and sent to a psychiatric ward after stripping down to her underwear in public. In a demonstration of support, activist Rokhsareh Mohammad Khani took ...