A media rights watchdog has urged Russia to publish details of its probe into the murder of a rights worker after the Russian press reported that suspects had been identified.
Organizers of the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in Sochi, Russia, say they have amassed more than $1 billion in sponsorship revenues from Russian firms.
Musavi's statements, his first extensive comments since opposition street protesters were beaten back with tear gas and police batons on February 11, came in an interview posted to his "Kaleme" website.
The death toll from a massive earthquake that hit central Chile has risen to 147.
A suicide car bomber has killed three policemen and a child in an attack on a police station in a northwestern Pakistani town, police said.
Two more Turkish generals have been charged over an alleged plot to unseat the government.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the Taliban attacks in Kabul that killed at least 17 Afghans and foreigners.
Israel's perspective on Iran's nuclear program differs from that of the United States and the two may part ways on what action to take, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has said.
The sanctions were imposed in 1991 in response to the occupation of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's regime.
The Tatarstan capital's main Qol Sharif Mosque took part today in a unique celebration marking the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.
A small group of reformist members of Iran's parliament want the government to release imprisoned journalists and political activists before the Persian New Year on March 21, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says his country survived the rule of despotic Persian shahs and can also survive the current Russian government, RFE/RL's Georgian Service reports.
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