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Four major U.S. technology companies say they are joining forces to remove terrorist-related content from their online services.
Reporters Without Borders called on Azerbaijan on December 5 to stop curtailing media freedom after what it said was the arrest and harassment of three journalists last week.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has called on the authorities in Turkmenistan to "immediately" release RFE/RL contributor Khudayberdy Allashov.
The European Union said the victory of acting Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyaev in a largely uncontested election this weekend showed the need for continued reform in the Central Asian nation.
Russia and China on December 5 vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution pushed by Western powers and calling for a seven-day truce in Syria's Aleppo.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has agreed to delay his resignation until parliament approves the 2017 budget, which could be done as early as this week.
The United Nations has condemned recent executions carried out by authorities in Belarus.
The Russian Defense Ministry says two Russian female army medics were killed on December 5 and a third medic was seriously wounded in what it said was the rebel shelling of a field hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
Prosecutors have begun their closing arguments at the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic in The Hague.
Pakistan's prime minister has given approval "in principle" to renaming a physics research center in Islamabad after pioneering physicist Abdus Salam, the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize in a scientific discipline.
Ukrainian authorities say Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko will personally oversee the probe into what officials are calling a "friendly fire" shootout between police and state guards service agents that left at least five law-enforcement officers dead.
Geidar Dzhemal, a prominent Islamic philosopher and public figure in Russia, has died in Moscow at the age of 69.
A Russian court has refused to dismiss a politically charged case in which Aleksei Navalny, a prominent foe of President Vladimir Putin, is accused of large-scale theft from state companies.
Uzbekistan’s Central Election Commission says that acting President Shavkat Mirziyaev has won the December 4 presidential election with 88.6 percent of the vote.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has resigned after conceding what he called the "extraordinarily clear" defeat of his attempt to reform the country's constitution, tipping the eurozone’s third-largest economy into turmoil and sending the common currency briefly downward.
Amnesty International has called on Iran to release "immediately and unconditionally" four individuals arrested on December 2 at a gathering marking the 18th anniversary of the killings of two prominent intellectuals.
Austrian far-right candidate Norbert Hofer has been defeated in Austria's presidential race by rival candidate Alexander Van der Bellen, who is supported by the Green Party.
Russia's FSB security service says it has killed a leader of the Islamic State (IS) militant group during a raid in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Daghestan.
Syrian government forces and their allies have captured the Tariq al-Bab district of eastern Aleppo, the government and the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
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