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U.S. convenes regional officials and business leaders in New York to advance TRIPP corridor; Trump urged leaders to 'get it done', envoy says

U.S. officials hosted a high-level New York meeting on September 23 to discuss the Trump administration’s proposed Tra...

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EU Says Von der Leyen’s Handshake with Serbia’s Vučić at UNGA Was Spontaneous as Commission Skips Serbia and Bosnia Visit

European Commission officials described a brief encounter between Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and EU Commission...

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Europe Intensifies Emergency Planning as Officials Warn of Rising Russian Provocations and Possible Attacks on NATO Territory

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Czech, Latvian and Swedish intelligence chiefs warn Russia may intensify sabotage in Europe in coming months

Leaders of the Czech, Latvian and Swedish intelligence services told The Guardian that Russia could escalate a campaign...

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Russian strikes in Sumy and Kherson kill six civilians; Dnipro shopping centre hit, regional officials say

Regional Ukrainian officials reported that Russian strikes across several regions on September 19 killed six civilians a...

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Father of Eight-Year-Old Narin Güran Begins 'Justice March' to Ankara, Demands Retrial and Truth

Arif Güran, whose daughter Narin was found dead in 2024 after a disappearance in Diyarbakır, has begun a march to Anka...

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Kyrgyz Officials Say President Can Run Without Resigning; Legal Provision Dates Back to 2004

Speaker of Parliament Marlen Mamataliyev and Central Election Commission head Tynchtyk Shainazarov have stated that Pres...

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Russian strike on Kharkiv passenger train kills one and wounds seven, officials say

A passenger train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region was struck in what officials say was a Russian attack, killing a 40-year...

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U.S. Clears Potential Sale of 48 F-35 Fighters to Saudi Arabia as UN, WHO and U.S. Courts Report Divergent Security and Rights Developments

The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale of 48 F-35 combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia in a deal valued at...

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Historian Iva Vukushiq: Specialist Chambers' sentences for former KLA leaders are comparatively high

Iva Vukushiq, a historian at Utrecht University and expert on trials arising from the wars in the former Yugoslavia, tol...

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Return of Former Political Prisoner Andrzej Poczobut to Belarus Raises Questions — Analysis by Valer Karbalevich

Former political prisoner Andrzej Poczobut has returned to Belarus in a development described by the source as unprecede...

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Kara‑Suu Market Transferred to Presidential Administration amid Allegations of Seizure, Violence and Legal Irregularities

Kyrgyzstan’s Kara‑Suu market, the country’s second-largest trading hub, is being handed over to the Presidential A...

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Norway's PM Says Drone Nearly Hit President Zelenskyy's Plane; Moldova Reports Shahed-Type Drone Crash

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre told journalists that a drone nearly struck the aircraft carrying Ukrainian P...

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Acting Kosovo Interior Minister Given One-Year Suspended Sentence for Throwing Tear Gas into Parliament

Kosovo's acting interior minister, Dželal Svečalja (Xhelal Sveçla) of the Self-Determination Movement, was sentenced...

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Right-wing AfD Tops Saxony-Anhalt Vote in Exit Poll; Faces Choice of Coalition Despite Strong Lead

An exit poll on Sept. 6 put the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) on 44.4% in the Saxony-Anhalt regional...

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Drone Strikes on Wildberries Warehouses in Russia Trigger Multimillion Losses for Central Asian Exporters

Drone attacks on Wildberries logistics sites beginning 18 July have wiped out inventory belonging to sellers from Kyrgyz...

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Kazakhstan signs contract with Russia’s Atomstroyexport to build first nuclear power plant amid budget allocations and controversy

Kazakhstan formally signed a contract on September 3 with Russia’s Atomstroyexport (a Rosatom subsidiary) to design, s...

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The Economist reports Putin told aides "Они меня повесят" — paper says he fears showing weakness and is unsure how to end the war

The Economist, cited by Настоящее Время (Current Time), reports that President Vladimir Putin told members...

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Eighth Day of Wildfire in Yalta Mountains; Officials Cite Terrain and Weather as Obstacles as Press Access Is Restricted

A forest fire burning in the mountains above Yalta has entered its eighth day, with Russian emergency services saying op...

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Law Passed, Now the Test of Peace Begins: İmralı Delegation Outlines Next Steps and Risks

Members of the DEM Parti İmralı delegation and İmralı Secretariat met with journalists in Istanbul on 19 August to d...

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Azerbaijani firm sues presidential administration over unpaid work on Kyrgyz luxury hotel; court dismisses claim

FLAX LLC, an Azerbaijani architectural and urban planning firm, went to court alleging it had not been fully paid by Aze...

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Pakistan Confirms Three Citizens Killed in Red Sea Attack as Yemen Coastguard Reports Multiple Deaths; Regional Tensions Over Strategic Waterways Escalate

Pakistan’s foreign ministry confirmed that three Pakistani citizens were killed and one wounded in an attack on a comm...

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Satellite Images Show Damage to Wildberries Warehouses in Russia After Reported Ukrainian Drone Strikes

High-resolution satellite imagery released by imagery firm Vantor reveals damage to warehouses operated by Wildberries,...

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Japarov family members at center of lucrative projects: golf resort, new bank and business ties after arrests

The new Issyk-Kul Golf Resort opened with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov speaking alongside visiting heads of state, but...

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Iran executes two men accused of spying for Israel amid surge in wartime executions

Iranian judiciary-run media said two men, Omid Behzad and Puria Safvat, were hanged on August 3 after being convicted of...

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Thailand presses Georgia for explanation after two-week delay in notifying embassy of Thai YouTuber’s death in Tbilisi

Thai authorities say they were not notified for more than two weeks after a Thai YouTuber, Bowornthat Pengsuk (known onl...

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Serbia Probes Two Arrested at Hungary Border After German Reports Link Them to Russian 'Disposable' Agents

Serbian prosecutors say two people detained on the Serbia-Hungary border are under criminal investigation after media re...

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Russia Summons German Ambassador, Accuses Berlin of Backing Strikes on Civilian Infrastructure; Germany Had Earlier Protested Russian Cyberattacks

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Germany’s ambassador in Moscow, accusing Berlin of increasing support for Kyiv a...

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Former Deputy Minister Erlan Qozhagapanov Released After Remaining Term Converted to Fine

Erlan Qozhagapanov, a former deputy culture and sport minister convicted of abusing official powers and sentenced to thr...

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Report Details Arrests and Isolation of People Linked to Ukraine in Southern Russia and the North Caucasus

A new compilation of reports and an expert analysis by the Sova team, published via Marsho Radio, documents a pattern of...

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Calm After Two Nights of Strikes: U.S. Maintains Military Readiness While Prioritizing Diplomacy with Iran

After two nights of reciprocal strikes between U.S. and Iranian forces, the Middle East was relatively calm on Friday ev...

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Kyiv court remands another suspect in killing of Interpol-listed Anastasiia Berezovska; serving intelligence officer previously detained

A Pechersky District Court in Kyiv has ordered that Vitalii Zhykovych be held in pre-trial detention without the possibi...

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Lukashenko Promises Not to Send Belarusian Troops to Fight in Ukraine, Calls Pressure a 'Hybrid' Attack

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told military graduates on July 6 that he would not send Belarusian soldiers t...

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Kazakh Parliament Ratifies CSTO Protocols to Speed and Simplify Alliance Troop Movements

Kazakhstan’s lower parliamentary chamber has ratified amendments to Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) pro...

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Croatia’s far-right revives push for separate Croat electoral unit in Bosnia and Herzegovina, prompting regional alarm

A resolution by Croatia’s radical-right Domovinski pokret seeks to reshape political representation of Croats in Bosni...

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Belarusian youth football team bus hit in Bryansk region; one killed, several children injured as tour offers to Russian Black Sea resorts continue

A bus carrying Belarusian children to a seaside training camp in Russia was struck on June 17 in the Bryansk region, kil...

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Nearly 30 Years of Free Water in Kosovo’s Serb-Majority North Set to End, Leaving Questions over €20m Debt and Transparency

Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo are set to enter a regular water-billing system for th...

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Zelensky Offers to Meet Putin on Sidelines of G7 Summit in Evian; Moscow Yet to Respond

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he has offered to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G7 summit...

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Trial in 'Generalštab' Case Resumes in Belgrade as Minister of Culture Faces Charges Over Heritage Protections

The trial of Serbia’s culture minister, Nikola Selaković, and three other state officials resumed on June 10 at the S...