Warplanes and artillery bombarded eastern Ghouta -- a rebel enclave near Syria's capital, Damascus -- for a fifth straight day on February 22, as the United Nations pleaded for a halt to one of the fiercest air assaults of the seven-year civil war.
Lawmakers in the lower house of the Dutch parliament have overwhelmingly passed a motion recognizing as “genocide” the 1915 massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
At least 10 people have been killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan's southern Ghazni and Zabul provinces, officials say.
The United States has warned governments around the world that they could face sanctions over any "significant transactions" they make with Russia's military, senior U.S. officials have said.
An unknown man threw a hand grenade at the U.S. Embassy building in Podgorica before blowing himself up, the U.S. and Montenegrin governments say.
European Union ambassadors have prolonged the asset freezes and visa bans on 150 Russian officials and Moscow-backed Ukrainian separatists for another six months, EU diplomats told RFE/RL. The measure was also rolled over for 38 entities on the sanctions list.
A U.S. motion to put Pakistan on a terrorist financing watch list has been deferred for three months, Pakistani officials said.
An explosion has killed at least three tribal elders and wounded two in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province, while at least nine police were killed in attacks elsewhere in the war-wracked country, officials say.
Russian lawmaker Vladislav Reznik and 17 other suspects have gone on trial in Spain accused of money laundering for two Russian organized-crime groups.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for global regulations to minimize the impact of electronic warfare on civilians.
Days after the U.S. Justice Department formally accused 13 Russians and several companies of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman has reiterated the claim that the Russian state did not interfere.
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