Russian President Vladimir Putin described U.S. President Joe Biden as more "predictable" than former President Donald Trump, but said the Kremlin is prepared to work with whoever wins the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Pakistan's two main political parties that joined forces to oust Imran Khan as prime minister in 2022 said they would form a new coalition to rule the country, after an election last week failed to produce a decisive winner.
A 17-year-old Ukrainian basketball player was fatally stabbed after an altercation at a bus stop in Germany, police said on February 12, in a case that has sparked outrage in Kyiv.
Police fired tear gas to disperse supporters of jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on February 11 after his party urged protests outside election offices where they said rigging had taken place in last week's national vote.
Ukraine's president has named Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskiy as the country's top military commander. He replaces General Valeriy Zaluzhniy after months of speculation that he was at odds with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy over battlefield strategy.
The EU on February 7 said that it had launched action against Hungary after Budapest passed laws it says are intended to "protect Hungary's sovereignty" and curb foreign influence.
The United States is disappointed that Hungary's ruling party blocked an opportunity for a vote on Sweden's NATO bid, State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters on February 5.
Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Hakan Fidan on February 4 confirmed an imminent visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin, without announcing an exact date.
Dozens of relatives of mobilized Russian men laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow on February 3. Police briefly detained more than 20 Russian and foreign journalists who were covering the unauthorized event.
The EU said on January 31 that it plans to extend tariff-free entry for Ukrainian farm products for a year from June, but with "safeguards" to stop cheaper imports flooding the market at the expense of Europe's own farmers.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on January 29 warned that Ukraine's gains over two years of fighting invading Russian troops were all in doubt without new U.S. funding, as NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg visited to lobby Congress.
The trial of a Swedish EU diplomat wrapped up in Tehran on January 28, with Iranian prosecutors seeking the maximum penalty for the man accused of spying for Iran's arch-foe, Israel.
Pakistani police detained at least two dozen supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan on January 28 as they tried to rally in Karachi ahead of elections next month.
The European Union and United States on January 25 slammed Belarus for a series of political raids this week as rights groups said more than 150 people were detained or interrogated by the Belarusian security service in a single day.
Six countries of the former Yugoslavia have agreed to renovate a barracks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp run by the Nazis that housed nearly 20,000 Yugoslavs during World War II, the UN's cultural agency said on January 25.
A Huthi delegation made a rare visit to Moscow on January 25 to discuss "the need to increase efforts to pressure" the United States and Israel to end the war in Gaza, a spokesman for the Yemeni rebels said.
Russia has flatly rejected allegations that it has deported Ukrainian children since its invasion but said that more than 700,000 have moved into its territory.
Apple paid a 1.2 billion-ruble ($13.6 million) fine to the Russian government over Moscow's claims that the U.S. tech giant abused its dominant position in the mobile app market, the country's competition watchdog said.
Moscow will be asked to explain at the United Nations on January 22 what has happened to thousands of Ukrainian children believed to have been forcibly sent to Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The U.S. military on January 19 carried out another round of strikes against Yemen's Iranian-backed Huthi rebels, targeting missile launchers that were preparing for attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, the White House said.
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