Mikheil Saakashvili, the ex-governor of Ukraine's Odesa region and former president of Georgia, arrived in Kyiv vowing to challenge the revocation of his Ukrainian citizenship.
At the UN General Assembly in New York on September 19, U.S. President Donald Trump said the deal reached with Iran on its nuclear program was "an embarrassment to the United States." Trump said other nations should join the United States in pressuring Iran to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
In his speech to the UN General Assembly in New York on September 19, U.S. President Donald Trump said that Kim Jong Un's pursuit of nuclear weapons is "a suicide mission," and that denuclearization is North Korea's "only acceptable future." (Reuters)
Two Russian websites have posted video they said showed a helicopter firing errant rockets at vehicles and bystanders watching the joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise Zapad 2017.
Dozens of Russian citizens have been imprisoned in recent years for their social-media activities. This is the story of one of them, a blogger who was jailed for expressing his views on Russia's military involvement in Syria.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 18 attended a joint military exercise with Belarus near NATO's eastern flank that has fanned already deep tensions between Moscow and the West. (Reuters)
A statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the iconic AK-47, was unveiled in Moscow on September 19. (RFE/RL's Russian Service)
Aung San Suu Kyi gave a televised speech in the capital Naypyidaw on September 19 after international criticism of her failure to address allegations of ethnic cleansing that sent over 400,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees mostly into neighboring Bangladesh. (AP)
The Turkish ground forces kicked off previously unannounced military exercises near the city of Silopi, situated near the country's border with Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region, on September 18. (Reuters, AFP)
The security service of the Ukrainian president used force to prevent two RFE/RL journalists from filming in a public place on September 15, pushing a cameraman to the ground and leaving him with a concussion and other injuries. The chief of the State Security Department later issued an apology.
In his first appearance at the United Nations as U.S. president, Donald Trump told the world body that it has failed to "reach its full potential due to bureaucracy and mismanagement." (AP)
Joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise proceeded over the weekend of September 16-17 at the Barents Sea in Russia's north and in Brest region in western Belarus involving navy, air, and land forces and thousands of military personnel. (Reuters)
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