Seventy-eight-year-old Maria Horpynych lives in the front-line village of Opytne in eastern Ukraine. She lost her son and husband, and survives with no gas, electricity or running water.
Since Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, it has sought to control all aspects of life on the peninsula, including its airwaves. Russian transmissions are jamming frequencies broadcast from the Ukrainian mainland, while Kyiv fights back with new and upgraded radio towers.
In Pakistan, a group of women are breaking through the ranks of men as elite police commandos, completing the same rigorous training in counterterrorism and defusing bombs.
Moldovans marked Independence Day on August 27 but antigovernment protesters said there was no reason to celebrate.
Thousands of people rallied on August 26 in Moldova's capital to protest against the government.
Dozens of expatriate Moldovans have protested in Brussels against Moldovan government policies.
Vasily Ozerov has been traveling around Russia in his tractor-powered mobile home for 40 years. “I'm probably the happiest man on Earth," he says. "I have the road ahead of me.”
John McCain, a six-term U.S. senator, former prisoner of war, and two-time presidential candidate, lost his battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer. He was 81 years old.
The presidents of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci, arrived in Austria on August 25, where they are attending the Alpbach European Forum along with a number of regional and European officials.
Residents of Astana were furious after the Kazakh capital was hit by two days of flooding.
Children from 13 countries have gathered in the Balkans for what has become an annual celebration of diversity through traditional dance and music.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the Armenian Genocide memorial complex in Yerevan commemorating the 1.5 million Armenians killed in Ottoman Turkey during the World War I era. Germany’s parliament recognized the massacres as genocide in a resolution adopted in June 2016.
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