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Iran's Supreme Court has accepted the appeals of two protesters sentenced to death due to flaws in investigating their cases, the country's judiciary said on December 24.

In the latest assault on women’s rights, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ordered all domestic and international NGOs to prevent female employees from working at their jobs, claiming that many were not observing dress codes in the conservative Muslim nation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has condemned the latest Russian strikes that killed at least five people and wounded 35 others in the southern port city of Kherson on December 24, the president’s office said.

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has dismissed criticism from Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov over canceled talks with Azerbaijan, insisting that the Russian side was duly informed about his request for the “postponement” of a trilateral meeting of foreign ministers earlier this week. 

Zelenskiy goes to Washington, Putin goes to Minsk, and Russia's war on Ukraine goes on with no end in sight 10 months after the invasion. As Moscow erases potential evidence of war crimes in Mariupol, images of the now-destroyed city lit up for the holidays a year ago evoke a world now gone forever.

The Biden administration's envoy to Iran says a deal to revive a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is not dead, but Washington is skeptical Tehran is "prepared or able" to reach an agreement after it backed away from "a golden opportunity" in September to finalize an accord.

The Taliban has banned women from attending university in Afghanistan, the militant group has renamed a northern city, and survivors of a deadly Taliban raid last month have demanded justice.

Lawmakers in Russia's autonomous republic of Tatarstan on December 23 voted overwhelmingly in favor of constitutional amendments that allow the abolition of the title of president of the republic -- in line with a directive from Moscow.

The colourful and diverse North East Festival is back in the national capital again after two years of the Covid-induced pandemic.

Russian military officials are proposing a major reorganization of the country's armed forces, including increasing the age for mandatory conscription, as casualty rates from Moscow’s 10-month-old invasion of Ukraine continue to climb.