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Amnesty International says that at least 23 children are among the hundreds of people killed in Iran in widespread protests sparked by last month's death of a young woman arrested by the morality police over how she was wearing a headscarf.

A recount of ballots cast for president and two vice presidents in Republika Srpska during the recent general election in Bosnia-Herzegovina has begun.

RFE/RL President Jamie Fly has demanded an investigation into threats made against RFE/RL journalists during a demonstration on October 13 in Bishkek at the office of RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has brushed off comments from French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that Moscow was destabilizing the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

A massive billboard showing dozens of famous Iranian women wearing a hijab has been removed amid fierce criticism less than 24 hours after it appeared in central Tehran.

Hundreds of rights activists, journalists, and representatives of civil society organizations have rallied in Bishkek in support of independent media following a demonstration threatening the free media in front of the RFE/RL office in the Kyrgyz capital.

Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's vast team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.

Former Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov discusses how Kyiv is coping after massive Russian missile strikes targeted the country’s civilian heating infrastructure just at the approach of winter.

Like much of Iran, residents of the country's southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province took part in recent anti-government and anti-hijab protests. But the vast and impoverished region, populated largely by minority Baluchis, has taken the brunt of the violent government response.

Ukraine's military has recaptured more than 600 settlements from the Russian forces over the the past month, the Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporary Occupied Territories said, as Moscow continued to strike dozens of cities, killing a number of civilians.