Belarus said on March 14 it was blocking a range of imports from Lithuania in retaliation for its neighbor closing two more border checkpoints.
The White House said on March 13 it had seen no indications that Moscow is ready to use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine after President Vladimir Putin said he was ready to deploy them if Russia's sovereignty was threatened.
U.S. President Joe Biden hosts Poland's President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the White House on March 12 to try to reassure key NATO ally Warsaw of Washington's support after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Two exiled Afghan women have told RFE/RL that the Taliban appears to be further tightening restrictions on women in Afghanistan. Speaking ahead of International Women's Day, activists Nargis Sadat and Fawzia Wahdat said that more women were being imprisoned amid a clampdown on female activists.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy issued a decree on March 7 providing for prewar conscripts still serving in the two-year-old war against Russia to be discharged into Ukraine's reserves within the next two months.
Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in prison last month, predicted in previously unpublished testimony in 2020 and released on March 6 that his death would change "nothing" and other people would stand in his place.
The Czech government said on March 6 that it would not hold joint meetings with the Slovak cabinet in the coming months as their views on aid to Ukraine diverged.
Supporters have continued to pay tribute to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny for the fourth straight day since his burial on March 1. Russian political analyst Ruslan Aisin said the "Kremlin couldn't do anything" to stop people from paying their respects to Navalny.
The United States said on March 4 that low turnout in Iran's election was a new sign of discontent in the country.
More than 40 countries have demanded an independent international investigation into the death of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and said President Vladimir Putin bore ultimate responsibility.
Hundreds of people brought flowers to the grave of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny on March 2, a day after his burial in Moscow. Visitors included Navalny's mother and mother-in-law, who can be seen visiting the grave together at the beginning of this video.
Pakistan's new parliament elected a speaker on March 1 despite protests from lawmakers loyal to jailed ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan three weeks after an election they claim was brazenly rigged.
The former coach of Belarus sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has been banned for five years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which investigated allegations that Tsimanouskaya’s coaches attempted to force her to return home during the Tokyo Olympics.
Operatives from Iran and its Lebanese ally Hizballah are working inside Yemen to support Huthi insurgents' attacks on international shipping, the U.S. special envoy for Yemen told a Senate subcommittee on February 27.
Russia's ex-President Dmitry Medvedev, a leading hawk on the Ukraine offensive, said on February 24 that Moscow will seek "revenge" for massive Western sanctions.
Britain announced on February 24 a new 245 million-pound ($311 million) defense package to help boost the production of "urgently needed artillery ammunition" for Ukraine, two years after war broke out with Russia.
The Czech Republic has extradited a man facing charges in the United States for plotting the murder of a prominent critic of Iran's government.
The United States will announce new sanctions on Russia on February 23 over the death of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, the White House said on February 20.
A host of European governments on February 19 summoned Russian diplomats following the prison death of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.
Ecuador's foreign minister on February 19 said the small Latin American country didn't plan to send Soviet-era weapons to Ukraine after the president's vow to do so sparked a spat with Moscow over banana and flower exports.
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