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Six months after Russia launched its invasion, polls point to increased unity among Ukrainians, with 85 percent saying they consider themselves first of all citizens of their country and almost as many saying they will accept no territorial concessions. But a closer look tells a more complex story.

A three-year parliamentary investigation has alleged widespread corruption at Iran's largest steel exporter and leading revenue earner, pinning the graft on the previous presidential administration and leading the Mobarakeh Steel Company to be suspended from trading on the country's stock market.

The West has imposed punishing sanctions on Russia’s economy as hundreds of foreign firms exit the country. So why is Russian unemployment at a post-Soviet low?

Iran and Russia have touted the use of cryptocurrencies to skirt punitive sanctions. But while Tehran recently raised eyebrows when it announced it used cryptocurrency to pay for some imports, sanctions experts say virtual currencies are not a digital safe place for illicit transactions.

As the latest heat wave bore down on a heavily wooded expanse of the Danube Delta, caretakers of Romania's oldest nature reserve appeared oblivious to the danger to thousands of the continent's last wild horses, whose watering holes had dried up weeks ago.

Iran has stepped up pressure on filmmakers who have made anti-government statements ahead of the release of a blacklist of filmmakers banned from working in the Islamic republic.  

Thousands of Central Asians have been hired for seasonal jobs on British farms this year as part of a U.K.-government scheme to tackle a shortage of agricultural workers due to Brexit. Many of the workers say it's great to be in Britain but they are being paid barely enough to cover their expenses. 

An NGO in Serbia linked to a political party allied to Hungary's ruling Fidesz party won a no-bid contract with the postal service of Serbia to distribute ballots to eligible voters there for Hungary's April parliamentary elections.

A deputy head of Azerbaijan's national firefighting service has been dismissed and arrested following the leak of an "intimate" video that authorities say is one of numerous sexual encounters he secretly recorded on the service computer in his office.

Romania's Black Sea beaches were once esteemed holiday destinations. Today, only a tiny fraction of foreign tourists head for the coast.