Ukrainian troops in Kupyansk, found themselves thanked in person on December 12 by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who also taunted the Kremlin in a social media post following Russian claims that the city is under their control. "The reality speaks for itself," Zelenskyy said.
The Bulgarian government has resigned following a string of mass protests on the streets of Sofia. Crowds demanded the ouster over several issues, including its spending plan, corruption, a proposed hike in social-security contributions and taxes on dividends to finance higher state spending.
Tens of thousands in Sofia took to the streets for the second mass protest within a month, demanding the resignation of the government over several issues.
Damage to the Russian-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome rocket launchpad in Kazakhstan has taken the site out of commission, raising concerns over how the International Space Station could be affected. The Baikonur complex is Earth's main blastoff site for crew and cargo flights bound for the ISS.
With Iran facing severe water shortages after years of drought, the country's energy minister says he wants to import water from neighboring nations. Climatologist Nasser Karami told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that a deal with Afghanistan might work best.
Bulgaria's government has withdrawn a state budget plan after facing the largest demonstrations the country has seen since the 1990s. Protesters gathered in the capital, Sofia, and other cities on December 1 to accuse the government of prioritizing its own salaries over the needs of workers.
Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign is hitting Russia’s oil and gas sector on an almost daily basis, knocking out an estimated 10 percent of refining capacity as Kyiv doubles down on strikes aimed at squeezing Moscow’s wartime revenues.
More than half of Russia's major oil refineries are going up in flames, hit by Ukrainian drone attacks. So could this new wave of strikes actually change the course of the war? Oil and gasoline shortages are visible now in Russia, with export revenues down nearly a fifth from last year.
Fighter jets scrambled over Romania on November 25 as Russian drones entered its airspace during an attack on southern Ukraine. There have been three incursions in the past week, which at one point forced the evacuation of two villages in the Danube Delta.
Turkey's defense ministry said a Turkish military cargo plane crashed in Georgia near the border with Azerbaijan on November 11. The ministry said on X that the C-130 plane had taken off from Azerbaijan and was on its way back to Turkey. It was not clear how many crew members were on board.
An overnight Russian air attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on November 8 killed one person as it struck the center of an apartment block, leaving at least 10 wounded. Fire and rescue teams helped get dozens of civilians, including two injured children, to safety.
Kyiv says Pokrovsk remains a priority for the Kremlin as Russian forces claim to have captured dozens of buildings in house-to-house fighting for Ukraine's key eastern stronghold.
Russia claims it has captured more than 60 buildings in Pokrovsk as house-to-house fighting is reportedly raging in the strategic frontline city. Kyiv has acknowledged that the situation has become difficult in recent days but says its troops are still fighting there and denies they are surrounded.
The death in of an Iranian man who burned a poster of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in an online video, has sparked protests in the country, with others now copying the gesture.
Afghans dug through the debris of collapsed homes on November 3 in the wake of a 6.3 earthquake that struck the country's north, killing at least 20 people. Areas around the city of Mazar-e Sharif were badly damaged, including the city's historic Blue Mosque, with hundreds injured.
Russian singer Diana Loginova, also known as Naoko, has become a rising star on social media after she received a second jail sentence on October 28. Now accused of discrediting the Russian Army, she and guitarist Aleksandr Orlov were arrested following a street concert in St. Petersburg.
Russian oil has been a prime cash source for the Kremlin's war in Ukraine. So will the newly announced US sanctions against Russian energy giants LUKoil and Rosneft have an effect on Vladimir Putin's war chest? US President Donald Trump says both companies' US assets will be frozen.
Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine killed at least seven people on October 22, including two children, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for increased pressure on the Kremlin. A kindergarten in Kharkiv was hit, causing a fire and the rescue of 48 children.
Ukrainian drone strikes crippled a major Russian gas-processing plant in Orenburg on October 19, causing massive fires. It's the largest facility of its kind in the world and had to suspend gas intake from Kazakhstan. A second strike on a Novokuibyshevsk oil facility also set off a major blaze.
Fighting along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, along with air strikes on the Afghan capital, Kabul, on October 15, has killed dozens and led to widespread destruction, according to survivors.
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