A court in Astana ruled on May 25 that Zhylanbaev must stay in custody until July 23 on charges of taking part in a banned group's activities and financing an extremist organization.
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Tensions rose further in the evening after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic placed his country's military on high alert and ordered troops to deploy closer to the border with Kosovo.
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Romanian teachers filled the streets of Bucharest on May 25, escalating a strike on its fourth day over low salaries and crumbling facilities.
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A draft bill proposed in Iran is an attempt by the authorities to consolidate “gender apartheid,” said Britain-based feminist activist Samaneh Savadi.
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Blinken will give a speech in Helsinki to highlight “all the ways in which Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has been a strategic failure."
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Abuzar Nasrallah, one of the lawyers to receive a summons, said the proceedings are mostly conducted by the security court located in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison with no specific charges stated.
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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said the country's current external policies "estrange us from Europe," asking her audience, "Where did the slogan: 'Europe is our civilized choice' disappear?"
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“We did react at the time, imposing sanctions on Russia and trying to get negotiations moving,” Ashton said. “However, in the intervening years, what was happening in Ukraine was not as high on the agenda as it should have been, in my opinion.”
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Is there an alternative to giving Ukraine NATO membership?
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⚡Three Russian regions attacked by Ukrainian forces, governors say
⚡Japan unveils new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine invasion
⚡Top U.S. General says Russia won't win in Ukraine, but fight will be long and 'bloody'
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Today's 🇺🇦 updates:
⚡At least two people were killed in Dnipro during another wave of Russian air strikes against Ukraine, which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called "another crime against humanity."
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📸 In Photos: Serbians participating in the Feast of the Ascension paused near the Belgrade school where a mass shooting shocked the nation.
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Singapore's International Commercial Court said a unit of Credit Suisse had not acted in good faith and neglected to keep the assets of Bidzina Ivanishvili safe.
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Prosecutors allege Skaka committed several crimes during his term as mayor between 2016 and 2020, including the illegal employment of four advisers and embezzlement of city funds.
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A Bulgarian photographer who asked fathers and their adult sons to link hands says the overwhelming response to the project has inspired him to take it international.
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The Taliban's ban on Afghan women working for NGOs has affected the delivery of humanitarian aid, including food assistance, to millions of people.
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Western countries have repeatedly charged that Iran tries to take advantage of foreign countries by taking dual and foreign nationals hostage and then using them in prisoner swaps.
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Bulauski, who pleaded not guilty, has been arrested several times and sentenced to weeks in jail for organizing protest rallies against Lukashenka after he claimed victory in a 2020 presidential election that the opposition says was rigged.
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The film, by Russian English-language broadcaster RT, echoes Kremlin talking points on the monthlong siege of thousands of Ukrainian defenders and civilians trapped inside Azovstal.
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Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev said at an EES meeting in Moscow that integration within the EES was different from the controversial Russia-Belarus Union State.
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Alimbaeva's husband was arrested along with more than 20 opposition politicians, activists, and journalists in October 2022 over their protest against a controversial border deal with Uzbekistan.
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A fourth mayor was sworn in last week in a process that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic led a boycott of and has condemned as an "occupation" of areas of the former Serbian province.
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Last year, seven Tajik journalists and bloggers were jailed for terms ranging from seven to 21 years on charges of spreading false information, involvement in activities of extremist groups, and cooperation with banned organizations.
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The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, wrote on Telegram there were no casualties after four districts were shelled by Ukrainian forces overnight.
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Overcoming a visual disability caused by a brutal assault as a teenager, the Kyrgyz athlete Jalaldin Abduvaliev is training for the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. By
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The Russian military fired 17 missiles and 31 Iranian-made attack drones on civilian and military targets, but the Ukrainian air defenses managed to shoot down 10 missiles and 23 drones, Ukraine's Air Force Command reported early on May 26.
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The three denied allegations of espionage, saying they were bloggers seeking to photograph and document abandoned Cold War buildings.
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Murphy also said he hoped Russian ally Serbia would adopt Western sanctions against the Kremlin and reduce the spread of Russian disinformation in the country.
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Pashinian called Baku's blocking of access to the region a "direct violation" of the 2020 cease-fire agreement, while Aliyev denied it was blocking access.
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Navalny now faces charges of creating an extremist group, calls for extremism, creating a nonprofit organization that violates citizens' rights, financing extremism, involving a minor in criminal activities, and rehabilitating Nazism.
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Provisions of the bill are said to refer to failure to comply by the compulsory head scarf as "nudity," with progressively stiffer penalties that run up to fines and the deprivation of social rights.
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Poland has been one of Ukraine's staunchest allies since Russia invaded the country in 2022. However, the Volhynia massacre, in which historians say tens of thousands of Poles perished, has continued to hang over ties between the two nations.
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Mercenaries from Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group were shown in a video clip nailing closed the two wooden coffins and then draping a U.S. flag over one coffin and a Turkish flag over the other.
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Abrahim’s disappearance comes two weeks after another pro-Khan TV journalist, Imran Riaz, went missing. Pakistani police have denied detaining him.
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RFE/RL's Maryan Kushnir watched Ukrainian artillery on the outskirts of Bakhmut firing BM-21 Grad missiles at Russian positions, while 's Oleksiy Prodayvoda observed another Ukrainian unit to the south of the city.
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As spring comes to an end in Kyrgyzstan, local cowboys must drive their horses high into the mountains in search of greener pastures.
During the 3-day journey, the men hardly rest as they guide over 150 horses along highways and up the sides of mountains
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Germany has long been Romania's first trading partner and the second-largest investor in the country, Iohannis said in Sibiu, his hometown, accompanied by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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The allowance of flights from Russia has sparked protests in Tbilisi, led by President Salome Zurabishvili, who has criticized the government for its warming relations with Moscow.
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"It turned out that Putin's ‘wunderwaffe’ was grossly overestimated," one military analyst told RFE/RL.
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