Worries are rising over the economic and social costs as protests intensify around a lengthy political crisis that has left Macedonia without a government.
He's back. The white polyester shirt that glistens in the light; the salesman's shark-toothed grin; the restless arms, always waving and throwing victory signs: Mahmud Ahmadinejad, Iran's combative and polarizing former president, has reentered the political spotlight.
Despite having zero chance of getting on the ballot for May's presidential election, some Iranians insist on trying anyways.
Headlines and analysts' comments from around the world suggest there was little common ground when U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and then President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
A song by autocratic Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has been chosen as the official anthem of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Art Games that the country will host in September.
Police in Tajikistan have been ordered to go to the theater at least once a month in what officials call part of an effort to improve the moral and spiritual awareness of the force.
In the days following a peaceful, legal protest against corruption in Irkutsk, its organizers say subsequent detentions by masked troops were intended to send a message of strength ahead of next spring's presidential vote.
Amid worrying reports of a campaign of persecution against homosexuals in Chechnya, three gay men tell of the physical and mental abuse they escaped.
Russia heralded football fan chief Aleksandr Shprygin as a hero during the violence at Euro 2016 in France, but he has been sidelined as the country looks to clean up its image before it hosts the World Cup in 2018.
Iranians have demonstrated at the location of a decades-old chemical attack to condemn a suspected gas attack on a Syrian town last week that killed dozens of civilians, and to call for an end to the use of such weapons.
A crowd of reporters and supporters waited outside a Moscow jail on April 10 for Aleksei Navalny to walk free after a 15-day jail sentence, only to find that the ardent Kremlin critic had been secretly moved to another facility.
Military analysts say that Russia’s sophisticated air-defense systems stationed in Syria could not intercept the U.S. cruise-missile strike on a Syrian air base because they were out of range.
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