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Two Russians who said they fled their home country to avoid compulsory military service have requested asylum in the United States after landing on a remote Alaskan island in the Bering Sea, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski's office said on October 6.

LONDON (AP) – After a pared down edition in 2021, the BFI London Film Festival is back in full swing this year. The annual event kicks off on Wednesday evening with the premiere of a new, musical action adaptation of Matilda – the first time in a decade that a family-friendly film has opened the […]

The United States has imposed sanctions on seven high-ranking Iranian officials over the shutdown of Internet access in the country and the “continued violence against peaceful protesters” following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police.

Ukrainian forces have continued to make advances into several areas that the Kremlin has declared its own, raising doubts about Moscow's capacity to control those territories even as President Vladimir Putin signed the decree incorporating them into Russia.

U.S. officials have said they have no information to corroborate media reports suggesting Russia is preparing to use a tactical nuclear weapon on or near the battlefield in Ukraine.

Kazakh authorities have rejected a demand by Russia's Foreign Ministry to expel Ukraine's ambassador to Kazakhstan, Petro Vrublevskiy, over his comments in August about killing Russians.

In a tit-for-tat move, Russia has expelled Lithuania's charge d'affaires and suspended the operations of a cultural center at the Lithuanian Embassy in Moscow.

Iran has faced more than two weeks of protests triggered by the death of a woman in police custody, police arrested a singer whose song became the anthem of the protests, and Tehran allowed a detained Iranian-American to leave the country.

Long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kharkiv artist Hamlet Zinkivskiy was known for the spare, thought-provoking murals that changed the face of his beloved city. Now he is turning its walls into a record of wartime experiences.

With a recent strategic expansion of its EMEA operation, Optii takes its industry leading solutions to events across the region Optii Solutions, the leading hotel operations software, announced today