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Amid the ongoing protests in Iran triggered by the death of a young woman in police custody, a growing number of women have appeared in public without their headscarves, in acts of defiance against the country's clerical regime.

Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], September 29 (ANI/PRNewswire): With the first slot of campus placements for 2023 batch underway, Chandigarh University has registered 6154 job offers which is acclaimed to be highest across India till date.

A human rights group in Russia says Yury Dmitriyev, the imprisoned historian and former head of the Memorial human rights group in the northwestern region of Karelia, is being mistreated at his prison in Mordovia.

The European Union believes that leaks from two Russia-Germany undersea gas pipelines this week "are not a coincidence," and there are indications they were "a deliberate act," the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said September 28.

Russia-backed officials in four Ukrainian regions partially controlled by Moscow have announced the final results of so-called referendums on joining the Russian Federation, saying voters have "overwhelmingly" supported the annexation.

Iranian police have warned that they will confront "with all their might" women-led protests that erupted nearly two weeks ago over the death of Mahsa Amini in custody as the United Nations called on Tehran to refrain from using “unnecessary or disproportionate force” against protesters.

Russian political commentator Ivan Preobrazhensky says the Kremlin is pushing ahead with the attempted annexation of four more Ukrainian regions and a mass military mobilization in a bid to turn its invasion of Ukraine into a “defensive war” for domestic audiences.

Russian missile strikes in Ukraine's second city Kharkiv hit a railway yard overnight and knocked out power to more than 18,000 households, officials said on September 28.

Due to its easy-entry requirements, the Serbian capital has become a growing hub for middle-class Russians who left the country following Moscow's February invasion.

Former lawmaker and women’s rights advocate Faezeh Hashemi has been arrested in Tehran after being accused by state media of encouraging protests.