Five Tajik shopkeepers at a Kemerovo shopping mall sprang into action when the complex caught fire on March 25.
In a rare move, hundreds of Afghan women living in a Taliban stronghold have staged a days-long sit-in to protest against Taliban attacks and urge the militant group to reconcile with the government.
The governor of the Siberian region where a shopping-mall fire killed dozens of children has drawn fresh scorn after his administration announced he donated one day's salary to a victims' fund.
A senior Russian regional official says a demonstration in response to a Siberian shopping-mall fire that killed dozens of children was part of an effort to discredit authorities.
Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor hopes her rise will be a source of hope for her long-oppressed community.
A small rural settlement outside Siberian city of Kemerovo lost almost an entire class to the massive fire at the Kemerovo shopping mall.
Russian officials have suggested that demonstrations and outrage in response to a Siberian shopping-mall fire that killed dozens of children are a cynical ploy by political opportunists.
Hero of Ukraine Nadia Savchenko is facing serious criminal charges, including terrorism, and some say the alleged video and audio evidence against her is credible.
Russian state TV coverage of a deadly shopping-mall fire leads to claims Moscow did not want to highlight "bad news" -- charges the Kremlin dismissed as "absurd."
Eyewitnesses give their accounts of the deadly fire that engulfed a busy shopping center in the Siberian city of Kemerovo.
Manzoor Pashteen is leading a new Pashtun movement in Pakistan, where many are comparing him to a revered leader in the nonviolence movement during the British Raj in the 20th century.
Police in Kazakhstan's capital hunted for people holding blue balloons during Norouz new year celebrations on March 22, following fugitive opposition politician Mukhtar Ablyazov's Facebook call for Kazakhs to express support for his banned movement by displaying blue balloons.
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