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Belarus's lower legislative chamber on January 25 voted to terminate a 2010 intergovernmental agreement with France on cooperation in the areas of culture, education, science and technology, and mass media, state media reported.

The United Nations’ cultural agency decided on January 25 to add the historic center of Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa to its list of endangered World Heritage sites.

A parliamentary panel in Switzerland has recommended waiving a law that bars countries from reexporting Swiss armored vehicles, weapons, and other war materiel to Ukraine for its defense against Russia

North Macedonia's president, Stevo Pendarovski, said on January 23 that a number of Bulgarian politicians who engage in campaigns against his country are connected to Russian intelligence services.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is confident the alliance will find a solution soon on the delivery of battle tanks to Ukraine, he said after meeting Germany's defense minister on January 24.

Azerbaijan has called on the International Tennis Federation and the Russian Tennis Federation to take action after Karen Khachanov wrote messages of support for the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh following wins at the Australian Open.

More than 25 media organizations and journalists in Kyrgyzstan have urged the Ministry of Culture, Information, and Youth Policies to withdraw a court request to halt the media operations of RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service, known locally as Radio Azattyk, warning of its effect on the free press.

Nobel Peace Prize laureates Dmitry Muratov and Maria Ressa have urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to intervene on behalf of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who has spent more than 100 days in punitive solitary confinement since August 2022. 

Ukrainian forces continued to face "around-the-clock" Russian shelling in the A number of senior Ukrainian officials resigned or were fired on January 24 as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pledged to eradicate corruption from his administration amid a high-profile graft scandal.

The Green Bay Packers' reported asking price for a potential Aaron Rodgers trade has been revealed.