A top South Korean diplomat was in Iran on January 10 to negotiate the release of a vessel and its crew seized by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf amid a deepening financial dispute.
Russia has confirmed its first case of the new strain of the coronavirus.
For the 22nd Sunday in a row, opposition supporters took to the streets of the Belarusian capital, Minsk, to protest against the government of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
A Cuban state-run research institute says it has signed a deal with Iran's Pasteur Institute to test the Caribbean state's most advanced COVID-19 vaccine candidate in Iran.
Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has rejected Alyaksandr Lukashenka's renewed pledge to draft a new constitution by the end of this year and put it to a referendum.
Exiled Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has accused Twitter of "an unacceptable act of censorship" in a thread arguing against that powerhouse private social network's permanent ban on outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump after violence in Washington this week.
Kyrgyz nationalist politician Sadyr Japarov -- who was serving a 10-year prison sentence for kidnapping just a few months ago -- has vowed to fight corruption and allow more transparency into government operations after winning a presidential election.
Kazakhstan's ruling Nur Otan party appears set to sweep a parliamentary election in a vote lacking any serious opposition and with dozens of protesters detained in at least three major cities, including the capital.
Iran is being criticized by international rights groups for putting politics above its own people after Tehran banned imports of British and U.S. COVID-19 vaccines.
Belarusian protesters carrying banned white-and-red national flags have marched in parks and residential areas of several towns across the country as demonstrators continue to demand the resignation of authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Rescuers at a ski resort outside the Russian Arctic city of Norilsk have recovered the bodies of three family members killed by an avalanche overnight.
Two international rights watchdogs have expressed concerns over the inclusion of the five Russian citizens on a controversial list of foreign agents seen by the West as a way for Russian authorities to clamp down on dissent.
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