Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy sector continued overnight as Kyiv scrambles to accelerate work on rerouting electricity supplies from its western nuclear plants to hard hit areas in the east.
Kyiv concluded a fresh round of talks with US officials without announcing an agreement but said discussions on a plan to end Russia’s war on Ukraine would resume at the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Iran said it is considering lifting its Internet blackout this week as details of a brutal crackdown on antiestablishment protests where thousands are reported dead continue to leak out of the country.
US President Donald Trump said it was time for new leaders to take control in Iran after tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in the country, presenting the Islamic republic with one of the most serious threats to its legitimacy since the 1979 revolution.
Iranian authorities have plunged the country into what witnesses describe as a near-total digital blackout in response to deadly nationwide protests against the Islamic republic, sharply limiting the flow of information from inside the country.
US President Donald Trump says he has decided on his own not to launch military strikes against Iran, crediting Tehran's alleged cancellation of hundreds of scheduled executions as the decisive factor in his decision to hold back from military action.
The teenage son of Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Adam Kadyrov, is in serious condition following a car accident in the republic's capital, Grozny, two sources told RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service.
A Kyiv court has ordered former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to pay $760,000 bail to avoid detention on charges of offering bribes to lawmakers.
Security forces are reportedly maintaining a heavy presence on the streets in parts of Iran as more than two weeks of protests ease following a brutal crackdown that has left thousands of Iranians dead and an ongoing Internet blackout.
European Union officials have called for sanctioning some of Russia’s most prominent TV personalities, including Pavel Zarubin, a state TV reporter known for fawning reporting on – and nearly unfettered access to – President Vladimir Putin.
Iran has stayed executions of protesters, President Donald Trump said quoting "very important sources on the other side," but tensions remained high across the Middle East as the possibility of US military action against Tehran remains.
The European Commission has formally unveiled a 90-billion-euro ($105 million) loan for Ukraine, intended to cover a large part of Kyiv’s financing needs for the next two years.
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