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As anti-government protests rage across Iran, some young people are knocking off clerics' turbans in the streets, in the latest form of protest. While some Iranians praise the "turban throwing," others express concern that clerics not affiliated with the state could suffer harassment and violence.

Tajikistan has decided to skip the World Sambo Championships that kick off in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, on November 11, following violent clashes along a disputed segment of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border in September that left dozens dead on both sides.

Yevgeny Fotin left his wife and baby boy, Bogdan, more than 20 years ago, never to play a further role in their life. That isn't stopping Fotin from fighting to collect a share of the state compensation following Bogdan's death in Russia's war against Ukraine.

A new investigation has found that the Russian general overseeing the war against Ukraine, Sergei Surovikin, benefited from lucrative deals that involved his wife's businesses, Syrian phosphate mines, and shady payments from a Kremlin-connected businessman.

Now detained on suspicion of aiding Moscow in its aggression against Ukraine, the longtime head of a prominent Ukrainian aircraft engine maker is a Russian citizen, a Schemes investigation has found.

Jailed U.S. Women's National Basketball Association star Brittney Griner has been moved to a prison in Russia after a court last month rejected an appeal of her nine-year sentence for drug possession.

BELOIT - Beloit Turner High Schools drama program will tell classic Dr. Seuss stories this weekend in “Seussical.”

Ukrainian forces say that they have recaptured Snihurivka, a strategic town in the southern Mykolayiv region, while repelling fresh Russian attacks in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, where heavy fighting has been under way for weeks.

Ema Stsepulyonak, a 69-year-old retired teacher, has gone on trial in the northern Belarusian town of Myory for making comments that "insulted" a KGB officer who was killed in a police shoot-out at a Minsk apartment that also left an IT worker dead.

"What kind of people are you?" Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said in a rant aimed at shaming residents of the Russian republic into volunteering to fight in Ukraine. Nonetheless, Chechnya’s parliament speaker said there are more than 1,000 vacancies in the region's security units.