A group of U.S. senators said on February 15 that they would try again to pass legislation that would require the State Department to designate the Russian mercenary company Wagner Group as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
The head of the European Union's executive body has said the bloc will for the first time propose sanctions targeting Iranian entities involved in Russia's war on Ukraine.
The Russian ruble struck its weakest mark since late April on February 14, hurt by lower foreign currency revenue inflows from hydrocarbon exports and a continued recovery in imports as companies build new supply chains.
Russia's gymnastics and wrestling federations said on February 14 that they had been invited to take part in this year's Asian Games, a move that could potentially pave the way for their athletes to qualify for next year's Paris Olympics.
Argentinian officials have blamed organized "mafias" for promoting birth tourism to the South American country by Russian mothers-to-be amid a boom in numbers traveling there since the invasion of Ukraine looking to get their children citizenship.
Eight Afghan journalists who worked for the BBC and other British media organizations partially won a legal challenge on February 13 against the British government's refusal to relocate them from Afghanistan.
The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov discussed "priorities," including air defense and artillery, ahead of upcoming meetings of Kyiv's allies in Brussels, both sides said late on February 11.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on February 11 issued a decree sacking a senior security figure and said separately that his drive to clean up the government would continue.
The release of Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah is final, though it is still unclear how much longer she will have to stay in Iran before returning to France, her lawyer said on February 11.
The U.S. Treasury Department will focus in the coming months on cracking down on facilitators and third-country providers helping Russia evade Western sanctions, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on February 10.
The German government has acknowledged an increase in spying by Iranian intelligence agents on exiled Iranians living in Germany since the start of mass protests last year, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on February 11.
A group of 35 countries, including the United States, Germany, and Australia, will demand that Russian and Belarusian athletes be banned from the 2024 Summer Olympics, the Lithuanian sports minister said on February 10.
There must be a stronger "international response" to the threat posed by Iran's ballistic-missile program, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna told her U.S. counterpart, Antony Blinken.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak said on February 10 there were risks that Russia's oil production could drop in 2023, under the pressure of a European Union embargo and a G7 price cap on Russian oil, Russian news agencies reported.
The presidents of Poland and Ukraine met in Rzeszow in southeastern Poland on February 9 and discussed the situation in the region
Russia says it is ready to continue work on creating a safety zone around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during a visit to a tank factory on February 9 that Moscow would increase production of tanks in response to Western arms supplies to Ukraine.
Poland is to close a key border crossing with Belarus until further notice, the Polish interior minister said on February 9, as relations between Warsaw and Minsk sink to new lows.
Russia's Wagner mercenary group has stopped recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine, the organization's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said on February 9.
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